The centenary of his birth begins!

December 6 has marked the centenary of the birth of our founder, Fernando Rielo, on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of his passing away. It will be a year full of events, activities and special initiatives around the world to celebrate and make known the Idente charism, and especially the figure of Fernando Rielo, a man who was in love with the Holy Trinity and whose only aspiration throughout his life was to proclaim the fatherhood of God and invite everyone to feel like his children.

The coming year 2023 will help us to know him better as a poet, intellectual, metaphysician, and founder. But above all, as a son, friend, and spiritual father who placed his life at the service of the Church and of so many people far from the faith. 

Pope Francis ceaselessly urges us not to feel like orphans, because we have a Father in Heaven. Fernando Rielo, who at every moment felt deeply that he was a son of the Father, exhorted his spiritual sons and daughters with these words to pronounce the word “Father” with the utmost love and affection:

“Help me all of you, as I want to help you all, so that the word ‘Father’ may be each day more polished, more tender, with a greater content, with greater magnitude, with more grandeur, until it may be perfectly chiseled and consummated. May the word Father be the best-pronounced word in this world, and may you be the missionaries who best pronounce it. May this word make you famous.”