Federico-Ozanam-5 III - I SETTE FONDATORI DELLE CONFERENZE DI S. VINCENZO In Italia, guando si parla o si pubblica qualcosa sulle Con­ferenze Maschili di S. Vincenzo De Paoli, si usa riferire l'o­pera ad un nome solo: Federico Ozanam, Servo di Dio, la cui causa di beatificazione é stata introdotta a Roma il 12 gennaio 1954. Ma ció non é giusto né leale. Ormai la lunga e lacrimevole polemica al riguardo non dovrebbe piú sussistere. Polemica dei successori, non dei fondatori, tutti profondamente permeati dí spirito di fede e di ... Seguir leyendo
Federico Ozanam Capítulo III: Por la Verdad Sigamos al hado donde quiera arrastrarnos. Sea lo que fuere, para vencer al destino, preciso es soportarlo. Virgilio (Eneida. Lib. V) 1.— Apología del Cristianismo en la Sorbona 2.— Conferencias del Abate Gerbet 3.— Esfuerzos de Ozanam para instalar las Conferencias en Notre Dame 4.— Retirada del P.— Lacordaire 5.— La universidad católica de Lovaina. En una carta escrita el 10 de febrero de 1832, a los cuatro meses de su llegada a París, nos muestra Ozanam bien claro no sólo el propósito, ... Seguir leyendo
Ozanam Chapter 4 - The Emergence of Ozanam's Vision: Being Christian in a Modern World When he was barely eighteen years old, Ozanam began what was to become his life's task -that of being an apologist for the Catholic faith in a life devoted to the service of "Eternal Truth" in the realm of ideas and to the service of the poor in the realm of action. At this time he wrote a series of articles against Saint Simon-ism, a false but seductive doctrine especially attractive among the ... Seguir leyendo
Ozanam Chapter 3 - The Spirit of Gospel and St. Vincent de Paul Frederic Ozanam is appropriately buried in the crypt of the Church of St. Joseph des Carmes which adjoins and serves the students attending the Institut Catholique in Paris. Above his tomb is a mural depicting the parable of the Good Samaritan. If there is a single significant passage of the Gospel that his life and that of the group he helped to found incarnated, it was this one. He developed the idea in a ... Seguir leyendo
Ozanam 007 To beatify someone does not mean to erect a statue of the person. On the contrary, according to the Latin etymology (beatificare = beatum facere), it means “to make happy”. Indeed, in beatifying Frederic Ozanam, the Church solemnly proclaims in the light of God and for all eternity to all of Christendom, and all youth in particular, the sanctity of the principal founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. At the same time we are all “made happy” because this admirable witness given by ... Seguir leyendo
Federico Ozanam La vida, la obra, el testimonio, el mensaje de Federico Ozanam son de tan gran riqueza y diversidad que uno no sabría resumirlos en unas pocas páginas. Con todo, podemos intentar desplegar los trazos más significativos que ayuden a descubrirlo, amarlo, y hasta inspirarnos en él, como tantas generaciones de "Vicentinos" que, desde 1833 hasta nuestros días, han hallado en él un mentor, como él mismo lo había encontrado en San Vicente de Paúl: "una vida que es preciso continuar, un corazón en el que hay ... Seguir leyendo