{"id":637601,"date":"2026-11-08T22:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/?p=637601"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:17:46","slug":"teresianum-rome-opening-of-the-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/teresianum-rome-opening-of-the-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresianum (Rome): Opening of the academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 15 October, the solemn Mass in honour of Our Holy Mother Teresa of \u00c1vila, presided over by Father General, was followed by the inaugural address for the academic year, given by Fr Silvano Giordano \u2013 From the International College of the Discalced Carmelites to the Teresianum: 100 Years of Research<\/em> \u2013 and the annual report of the Director, Fr Emilio Mart\u00ednez. In the evening, the Teresianum chapel hosted a performance of \u2018Prima che fosse l\u2019alba\u2019 (Before the Dawn)<\/em>, a play about St John of the Cross created especially for the centenary of the International College (1926 \u2013 which also coincides with the centenary of his proclamation as Doctor of the Church and the tercentenary of his canonisation).<\/p>\n

Set in Toledo in 1577, during the young friar\u2019s nine months of imprisonment, the play recounts with intensity and restraint his journey through darkness, pain and inner transformation. Night, a physical and ambiguous presence, accompanies John of the Cross towards a new capacity to see, revealing to us a fragile and deeply human saint.<\/p>\n

The Teresianum, with its college and its range of formation programmes, continues to place itself at the service of all for this mystagogy and this \u2018mysticism of open eyes\u2019, as Pope Leo also recalled recently in Spain, when he mentioned our two Holy Parents by name.<\/p>\n