Program Congress 2025

Titus Brandsma Congress November 27-29, 2025

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 Venue
Istituto Maria SS. Bambina, Rome
Via Paolo VI, 21 00193 Roma
Zona Extraterritoriale Citta` Del Vaticano
Phone: 0039/0669893511
Email: imbspietro@mariabambina.va
Arrival registration: November 26, 14:00 to 22:30
Opening hours: 6:00 a.m. to midnight

Meals
Breakfast 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Lunch: 13:00
Dinner (only on November 29): 20:00

Organization committee
Fernando Millán Romeral
Giovanni Grosso
Giovanna Brizi
Michael Plattig
Secretary: Elisabeth Hense (Elisabeth.Hense@ru.nl)

 

Program

November 27, 2025 (chair Giovanni Grosso)

8.30 – Morning prayer (Januarius Elijah Mutinda)

9.15 – Lectures (20 minutes each, discussion in between) – Sala Luciani

  • Word of Welcome (Fernando Millán Romeral)
  • Titus Brandsma and the Liberating Power of Truth in John 8:32 (Lester Hallig)
  • Titus Brandsma, the Resistance Fighter (Anne-Marie Bos)
  • Journalists Ask for an Additional Patron Saint (Emmanuel van Lierde)

11.00 – Coffee / Tea

11.30 – Lectures (20 minutes each, discussion in between)

  • Titus Brandsma as Spiritual Advisor to the Catholic Journalists’ Society – Observations against the backdrop of spiritual guidance in the Carmelite tradition (Michael Plattig)
  • A Contemplative Prophetic Brotherhood in the Midst of the People: Titus Brandsma and the Elian Prophetic Dimension of the Carmelite Charism (Francis Lefani Mwanza)
  • Mysticism and the Everyday: Titus Brandsma and the Search for God in the Contemporary World (Bruno Schröder – online)

13.00 – Lunch

14.00 – Free Time

16.00 – Coffee / Tea at CISA (Centro Internationale San Alberto)

16.30 – Tour through the Archive and the Library (Giovanna Brizi / Giovanni Grosso)

18.00 – Free Time

 

November 28, 2025 (chair Michael Plattig)

8.30 – Morning prayer (Januarius Elijah Mutinda)

9.30 – Lectures (20 minutes each, discussion in between) – Sala Luciani

  • Titus Brandsma and Soreth (Patrick Mullins)
  • Titus Brandsma and the Journaal Ons Geestelijk Erf (Rob Faesen)
  • What Concept and Image of God for today? Inspiration taken from Titus Brandsma’s Lecture On the Concept of God (Charlo Camilleri)

11.00 – Coffee / Tea

11.30 – Lectures (20 minutes each, in between discussion)

  • The Decolonizing Dimension of the Mission of the Dutch Carmelite Order to Malang-Indonesia within the Context of Colonization (Edison Tinambunam)
  • Societal Action Inspired by Titus Brandsma (Rico Ponce)
  • A New Bibliography of and about Titus Brandsma (Henk Rutten – online)

13.00 – Lunch

15.30 – Coffee and Tea

16.00 – Silvio Maestranzi: Le due croci /The two crosses (introduction to the film Fernando Millan Romeral)

19.00 – Free Time

 

November 29, 2025 (chair Fernando Millán Romeral)

8.30 – Morning prayer (Januarius Elijah Mutinda)

9.30 – Lectures (20 minutes each, discussion in between) – Sala Luciani

  • Titus Brandsma as a Carmelite Retreat Leader (Sanny Bruijns)
  • The Poetry of St Titus Brandsma – an Underappreciated Part of His Oeuvre? (Marcin Polkowski)
  • Titus Brandsma and Marian Spirituality in Rome: Santa Maria Antiqua and the Catacombs of Priscilla (Giovanni Grosso)

11.00 – Coffee / Tea

11.30 – Network Titus Brandsma Circle: Report of the Bursar, Elections of the President, Bursar, and Secretary by the Members of the Titus Brandsma Circle, Plans for the Next Congress in 2027 (Christian Körner, Fernando Millán Romeral)

12.30 Outbreak groups

13.00 – Lunch

15.00 – Tour to the Catacombs of Priscilla (Giovanni Grosso)

19.00 – Eucharist (Desiderio García Martínez)

20.00 – Dinner at Maria Bambina

 

Departure from Maria Bambina, Rome on November 30, 2025, no later than 9:30 a.m.