From Renovation to Renewal: The Message of St. Mary Magdalen De' Pazzi For a Post-Conciliar Church

Abstract

The proclamation came as a clarion call in a letter written by the young Carmelite novice to a Jesuit priest: “The determined time has
come, predestined from all eternity in the mind of God and so longed for by His servants past and present – the time for the renewal of His Bride, the Church”. The herald of this declaration was St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi, and the determined time was 1586, twenty years after the conclusion of the Council of Trent.