1st May 2010 Public Lecture at the Carmelite Institute Mdina - by Drs. Sanny Bruijns O. Carm

The Carmelite Institute Malta cordially invites you for a Public Lecture on Titus Brandsma: A Marian Life by Drs. Sanny Bruijns, O.Carm. at the Carmelite Priory, Mdina on Saturday, May 1 at 10.30am. Light refreshments will be served.

Drs. Sanny Bruijns O.Carm. (1956) studied Theology and Spirituality at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She entered the Carmelite Order in 1980 and since 1991 devoted herself to the study of Mariology. Since 1992, Sr. Sanny was in charge of the formation of candidates for Carmelite Religious Life in the Dutch Province. At present she forms part of the new Carmelite foundation in Almelo.

Profs. Titus Brandsma (1881-1942) was a Dutch Carmelite, founder and Rector Magnificus of the Nijmegen Catholic University, professor of Philosophy, a scholar of Mysticism and journalist who vehemently opposed the Nazi ideology and spoke out against it before World War II. He drew up the Pastoral Letter by which the Dutch Catholic Bishops condemned Nazi anti-Semitism and the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. In his lectures and talks he openly argued that Nazism in its core ideology, is essentially incompatible with Catholicism. As an ecclesiastical advisor to Catholic journalists he persuaded the latter to refuse to print Nazi propaganda in Catholic newspapers. In 1942, due to his advocacy for the freedom of education and the press, against the Nazi ideology, Titus was imprisoned in Arnhem then deported to Scheveningen, Amersfoort, Kleves and Dachau where he was killed on July 26 by a lethal injection. In 1985 he was recognised as martyr of faith and beatified by Pope John Paul II. In 2005 he was chosen as the greatest citizen of Nijmegen.

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[carmelitaneravenna]

Thanks a lot for this lecture, hold by a carmelite sister! We'll be spiritually present, hearing with the ears of the heart.

[edforma]

A courageous man giving his life in defending the Church and his principles against the NAZIS who are back in the form of the secular society fighting the church for its positions on matters that liberals consider a threat to theirown ideological identity