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On the 1^st and 2^nd of July, I participated in a meeting of CEVIM for young missionaries, in Castellnovo, Castellon, Spain. About 30 missionaries from different countries in eastern and western Europe were there. The principal focus of my comments was the International Community: Collaboration and Development.

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On this the Feast of Saint Justin de Jacobis, a missionary par excellence, I announce to the worldwide Congregation the five projects that were granted the Mission Award for 2008. I want to thank the recipients of this award for their missionary creativity in their evangelization of the poor. I hope that all the projects presented will help to stimulate missionary creativity among confreres in other provinces.

CONGREGAZIONE DELLA MISSIONE

CURIA GENERALIZIA

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00164 Roma – Italia Fax (39) 06 666 3831

e-mail: cmcuria@cmglobal.org

30 July 2008

Feast of St. Justin De Jacobis

To the members of the Congregation of the Mission

Dear Brothers,

May the grace and peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ fill your hearts now and forever!

On this the Feast of Saint Justin de Jacobis, a missionary par excellence, I announce to the worldwide Congregation the five projects that were granted the Mission Award for 2008. I want to thank the recipients of this award for their missionary creativity in their evangelization of the poor. I hope that all the projects presented will help to stimulate missionary creativity among confreres in other provinces.

Here is a brief description of each of the projects, as well as the goals and objectives proposed to make them realizable

• Province of Curitiba

Biblical, Pastoral, Social Formation and Animation of the Superagui Island and the neighboring islands.

The Island of Superagui is a national reserve in the Atlantic Ocean in the southern part of Brazil. The areas that make up this national park were originally inhabited by the Tupiniquins and Carijós indians during Brazil’s colonial period.

The region is formed by colonies of fishermen. There are approximately 1000 persons who reside on the Island; the majority of them are children. There are very few prospects for the future, because there are fewer and fewer fish and shrimp as larger fishing boats come from different places in Brazil to exploit the area.

During certain times of the year, many families suffer from hunger. There is a high rate of illiteracy and many people lack basic health care needs. There is no health system, either curative or preventive in place. There is no sport center for the children or young people who are often victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

The missionary project intends to assist in, little by little, the restoration of the human dignity of the people of the island, helping them to articulate their faith and life, spirituality and action through biblical formation that is rooted in the reality of the island.

The missionary team is made up of four religious Sisters, two lay people and the pastor.

The project has two goals:

• Formation and enabling of faith leaders;
• The biblical, pastoral and social animation of the inhabitants of the different islands.

The missionary team is aware that the process will be slow, but gradually they hope to involve the participation of the islanders and solicit the support of other persons of good will in the promotion that is possible and progressive.

Some of the objectives of the project are the following:

• To gain the confidence of the community
• To take initiatives to help recover the self-esteem of the leaders of the community
• To continue the formation, organization and capability of the islanders, especially the youth, children and other leaders
• To organize a plan of action that is participative at the social, economic, cultural and religious levels, to reveal the values, fears, needs and expectations of the youth of the community
• To provide spiritual, intellectual and professional formation for the youth in order to provide them with alternative ways of life to the way of drugs and violence which has a heavy presence in the islands.
• To enable leaders for better actualization of the following pastorals: catechetical, liturgical and charity as well as financial administration
• To initiate the Children Missionaries in order that children might evangelize children
• To organize bible reflection groups for adults
• To organize a children’s pastoral enabling volunteer leaders

The missionary team responsible for this project is grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Mission Award to provide the formation and animation that is biblical, pastoral and social and benefits above all those who are excluded and denied their basic human and therefore Christian rights.

• Province of Chile

Rural Areas of the St. Luis Gonzaga Parish in Chile

The parish, founded July 1, 1892, was entrusted to the Congregation of the Mission in 1995. The areas where we wish to develop a pastoral plan are located in the northeast section of the parish and are the places farthest from the city of Collipulli. The closest community to the parish center is 50 km away and the furthest is 80 km. The parish has 14 rural communities. Each time the visits to these places are short because of the distance which has to be traveled, and because of the need to visit a number of communities at one time. The roads are in poor condition especially in the winter months. Many times the visits are interrupted because of the rain, snow, and the insecurity of the place.

The goals of the project are to evangelize, mission and animate in the Vincentian style the rural communities of the parish of St. Luis Gonzaga, Río Amargo, Santa Julia, Canadá and Niblinto.

The project intends:

• To form parish leaders and to build missionary teams in order to develop activities on the weekends.
• To do home visits of each community in order to strengthen the catholic presence in the area
• To prepare the children and adults for the reception of the sacraments of Christian initiation
• To select and form leaders as animators of the faith community
• To evangelize and animate the faith of the people
• To coordinate spiritual and material help for the families most in need

Objective #1 To recreate the family and community experience in mission places.

Objective #2 To deepen their belonging to and co-responsibility in the church.

Objective #3 To form pastoral agents in order to strengthen their missionary identity.

• International Mission of Papua New Guinea

Holy Name Parish New Evangelization Project

Holy Name Parish was entrusted to the Vincentian Community in November 2007. The parish has 14 outstations scattered in a large territory that includes rural villages, problematic settlements, a government prison, a correctional institution, an institution for the mentally handicapped, and other institutions.

The goal is the implementation of an integral plan of new evangelization at Holy Name Parish through popular missions in order to become a community of communities in a permanent state of mission.

There are a number of objectives that will be accomplished:

• To organize a mission program to train parish leaders to assume the task of the New Evangelization
• To renew the life of small Christian communities by conducting retreats in the small villages and settlements of the parish
• To do home visitation and to organize meetings of families so as to reach out to those who are not actively involved in the life of the parish
• To organize a yearly popular mission during the Christmas novena in order to renew Christian life in the parish
• To give material and spiritual assistance
• To promote the justice and peace group
• To acquire catechetical materials for the Parish
• To support the missionary work of confreres in Woitape parish and other new places.

The following realities pose a challenge to us, Vincentians, in the task of evangelization of the poor at Holy Name Parish.

• Youth drug-addiction, unemployment and crime
• Poverty
• Out-of-school children and youth
• Tuberculosis, malaria, skin diseases, pneumonia
• Increase in HIV-AIDS
• Government corruption
• Tribal fights
• Family violence, especially against women
• Lack of respect for nature and the environment
• Lack of adult catechesis and Catholics joining other churches/sects
• Lack of catechists and lay ministers
• Lack of active participation by the faithful in the parish

There are three parts to the plan: evangelization, development, charity

Only the first part – Evangelization – is developed here.

Kerygmatic: Its aim is that people receive the kerygma of the first proclamation of the gospel through the renewal of one’s Christian commitment in baptism and confirmation

Koinonia: In this stage the community will learn how to grow and persevere in the Christian life (formation in being disciples to becoming apostles who are sent on mission).

Community: In this stage the community will grow in the new life of Christ through the Word of God, prayer and fellowship; to become the Body of Christ, a small community of witness and evangelization

Missionary: In this level missionaries will be formed from among the community. These will help make the parish into a permanent mission and promote growth through continuing visitation, catechesis at all levels, and the formation of new communities.

At the end of this first part the community will further promote the process of evangelization by establishing various ministries: formation of small Christian communities, catechesis, faith formation seminars, liturgy and social action, as well as special ministries such as family life, youth, health, and rehabilitation.

• Province of South India

Faith Formation and Spiritual Revival Programs

Invited by the Bishops of the Latin dioceses of Trivandrum, Quilon and Neyyattinkara, the South Indian Province of CM has taken up faith formation and spiritual revival programs. The Faithful of these dioceses consist mainly of fishermen and daily waged workers. There is indifference and apathy to faith and moral decadence among the people.

The bishops invited the CM confreres to do what they can for the revival of faith. Accordingly there is a team of 9 confreres working in the area. They form teams of priests, religious and lay ministers to preach missions, to catechize, to visit homes and to animate life in the parishes. The training of lay ministers and the preaching of renewal retreats are working together in these dioceses. The team of confreres also makes itself available for spiritual talks, retreats and guidance of the diocesan priests, seminarians and religious of the area. The methods used are mission preaching, family visits and guidance, catechizing, bible classes and guidance courses for the preachers and lay ministers, fostering of Marian devotion and formation and guidance of basic Christian communities.

The goals of the project are the formation and training of Popular Mission Teams consisting of priests, religious and lay ministers and faith formation and spiritual renewals in various parishes of the diocese.

The objectives are:

• To hold training sessions, consisting of two full days each, once every three months, for the lay ministers and volunteers who would preach and assist in mission preaching. (These sessions will consist of Bible classes, guidance in spiritual counseling, skills of listening and praying over sick people and homiletic skills.)
• To hold popular missions in all the parishes of these dioceses in three years’ time. (This will consist of preparation by family visits, actual preaching, counseling, family guidance, reconciliation services, etc., and follow up of the retreats by visits and motivational prayer guidance.)
• To have talks, retreats and guidance for the priests, seminarians and religious of the area.
• To spread Marian devotion through AMM in all the parishes.

• Province of Slovenia

The Integral Access to Evangelization and to Apostolic Service. “The greatest of these is love.”

Through this project we would like to work to decrease spiritual poverty present in our world, and we would like to fight the different types of dependencies.

Criteria

The program addresses students 12-14 years old and young people 15-30 who want to fight increasing spiritual poverty as well as different types of dependencies in the developed world. The young people lose themselves more and more in the world of consumerism and the lure of pleasure. This is why we have prepared for them a year-long program composed of different elements:

• Summer vacation for preschool children and secondary school children
• Groups for the Sacrament of Confirmation
• Groups of young people, students and animators

While the children grow up and they still attend the catechism regularly, the Church has an exceptional chance for presenting to them a lifestyle different from what the world offers them. We try to educate these children and young people to love through the activities and in small groups. This program is aimed at children and youth of the whole deanery. The program aimed at children for Confirmation is based on making present the gospel of St. Luke, while the one for the youth and students is based on the Sunday gospels. This program entails the following:

• One week of vacation for the children – “Let’s draw the rainbow,” for 100 children with 25 young animators
• Meetings twice a month for the children for Confirmation in small groups ( 7-12 people) in the whole deanery (11 parishes), about 250 young people and 35 animators. Besides these regular meetings we prepare a meeting for all of them together with their parents. For these latter also, there is a program that invites them to deepen their relationship in marriage and to deepen their faith.
• Meetings for young people and students twice a month.
• Meeting for animators once a month
• A Mass for young people every month prepared by the young people of the deanery
• Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament once a month and the opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the young people of the deanery who prepare the liturgy.
• A spiritual weekend for everyone according to their age range, where we build relationships on the chosen values in deepening the faith. Once a year we also invite the parents of the young people to the meeting.

The project responds to the following needs:

• The children, the young people and young couples need a clear spiritual orientation and an ongoing accompaniment, in order not to lose themselves in the mentality of a society of consumerism. The meetings and personal accompaniment correspond well to this need.
• The young people lose themselves in consumerism if they are not in relation with those who share the same values
• The average age of the clergy in the deanery is 68. The Church cannot respond to these needs without new vocations. The formation of animators and of group leaders as well as working together meets this need.
• There is a sufficient number of active young people; one must bring them together and give them an adequate formation, accompanying them and guiding them in working with the younger ones.

Through the insertion of young people and their parents in the program “the greatest thing is love,” the young people themselves and through them their families, change their outlook on the world. Materialism and consumerism give place to the Christian point of view. The need for prayer makes itself felt, family relations strengthen and they fall less often into different types of dependencies.

Through this program we try to break the harmful cycle of consumerism and individualism. The formation of relationships starts with the younger ones through the project “Let’s draw the rainbow,” which includes the young people and their parents and at a later time groups of students and animators. Through the interpersonal dialogs with the leader, the young people search for solutions to their problems and form themselves to be able to make serious decisions.

Being personally accompanied when living together helps them to build serious friendly bonds, that little by little become solid relationships as couples. In the group of students couples have formed who reflect on the seriousness of the union of marriage. We are convinced that these marriage unions will be more solid in the future and that they will avoid the crises that often end up in a divorce.

In closing, I would like to remind all of you of the object of the Mission Award: “To acknowledge and support specific projects developed by individuals or groups of confreres that promote in a noteworthy way their missionary work.”

I pray that, through the intercession of St. Justin de Jacobis, God may give us the grace to continue to deepen our missionary spirit in the world where we are called to evangelize especially the most abandoned.

Your brother in Saint Vincent,

G. Gregory Gay, C.M.

Superior General

From General Curia: The Superior General; The Asistans Generals; CIF; Visitors’ Conferences: – CEVIM:Meeting of young missionaries. From the Provinces: Japan; Australia; The Fiji Islands Mission. Nominationes; Ordinationes; Necrologium.

From the General Curia.

The Superior General: On 1-2 July, he visited the young missionaries of CEVIM, gathered near Valencia at a meeting of formation and living together internationally. Because Valencia is an important center of activity for the Sisters of the Province of Pamplona, one of the nine Spanish Provinces, it also afforded him the occasion to meet with and speak to a very numerous group of Daughters of Charity coming from the different houses of the capital and surrounding area. From the 3rd to the 5th, he visited with the participants of the Servant-Leadership Course in Paris. On the 6th, he celebrated the Eucharist with the Sisters of the Province of Rome, gathered together in Assembly. On the 7th, he flew to Australia to be present at the meeting of Vincentian Youth, assembled in Bathurst, in preparation for WYD 2008. He will take advantage of the trip to visit various missionary places of the Daughters and confreres in the South Pacific, Australia, and Indonesia. We expect him back on the 30th.

In the photographic composition, there appear different sites of Saint Stanislaus’ College in Bathurst, where the meeting of Vincentian Youth was held at which, along with the Superior General, Father Manuel Ginete, his Delegate for the Vincentian Family, was present.

The Assistants General: The Vicar General, Father Józef Kapuściak, returned on the 21st from his vacation in Poland, during which he also made his annual retreat. Fathers José María Nieto and Gérard Du assisted at the Vincentian Servant-Leadership Course in Paris.

As usually happens in the summer months, the activity in the Curia House has been notably reduced. However, the material activity has increased, with work on a slight renovation of the library and a new, more adequate, space for the archives.

CIF: We transcribe here a brief description by Father José María Nieto of the short course in Paris:

“From 30 June to 18 July 2008, a short course organized by CIF and entitled, Servant-Leadership, took place in Paris. In addition to CIF’s three directors (Fathers Hugh O’Donnell, Juan Julián Díaz Catalán and José Carlos Fonsatti), Fathers Daniel Borlik, Jean-Pierre Renouard, J. Patrick Murphy and Sister Patricia M. Bombard, BVM, participated in the course as experts. The latter two are from the DePaul University’s Leadership Program in Chicago. Since the topic treated servant-leadership, our Superior General had to be present. Besides presiding at the Eucharist, he presented us synthetically his vision of the Congregation of the Mission: our banner and challenge is evangelical charity exercised in a new and updated way through systemic change that radically and integrally transforms the life of the poor and marginalized. An interesting dialog followed his presentation. Passing through Paris, Father Pedro Opeka stimulated us with his enthusiasm as he spoke to us about the Akamasoa (Good Friends) project in Madagascar, which he oversees and at which he has been working for years.

“We were 34 missionaries from 19 provinces and the General Curia. Thirteen participants were Visitors, one was a brother and a good number of the missionaries were young. The meeting was carried out, with the aid of three translators, in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, and in some other linguistic groups.

“During the meeting each week’s theme was structured around three basic axes: 1) the Christian and Vincentian foundation of servant leadership; 2) some conceptual outlines and several useful tools for the service of leadership; 3) development of a personal plan in order to exercise one’s own leadership and exchange experiences from one’s reality.

“If anyone is interested in the content of this short course, he should know that the participants received a CD-ROM, containing much of the work carried out in these days and that he can consult the Internet site: http://leadership.depaul.edu or the book by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge, which has been translated into several languages.

“Throughout the three weeks we had time for diverse activities. Certainly we worked, using active methodologies. But we also prayed in the Chapel of the Rue du Bac; thanked Juan Julián Díaz Catalán for his nine years of service to CIF; prayed personally and in community before Saint Vincent; visited Chartres and either Versailles or Folleville; celebrated the French national holiday; walked throughout Paris and visited museums; had parties and sang together; and some of us enjoyed Spain’s victory in the European Football (Soccer) Championship.

“At the end, we had a time of evaluation, personal and in language groups. This meeting was a good experience, full of community values and also with some aspects that, in the future, could be elaborated on or improved. Thank you, in name of all the participants, to the members of the CIF team for their generous dedication and their fraternal availability.”

Visitors’ Conferences: – CEVIM:

Meeting of young missionaries: “On the evening of 25 June, the young missionaries and those collaborating in the development of the meeting came to Castellnovo (Castellón) from the various CM European Provinces. The young missionaries were: two from the Paris Province, one from Germany, three from the Barcelona Province, three from the Zaragoza Province, two from the Madrid Province, two from the Salamanca Province, one from the Hungarian Province, two from the Naples Province, one from the Turin Province, one from the Portuguese Province, three from the Polish Province and two from the Slovakian Province. All together, there were 23 young missionaries ready to reflect on community life.

“The meeting was carried out in a climate of joyful international brotherhood. The carefully prepared and celebrated liturgy, the formation meetings and group work, the relaxing moments and the trips (Teruel and Valencia with a morning at the beach), the welcome of the Daughters of Charity, (the Castellnovo house belongs to the Daughters of Charity of the Province of Pamplona), and the desire to communicate beyond the linguistic barriers meant that the proposed objectives were very satisfactorily attained.”

At the end of the meeting, in which the Superior General took part for a few hours, the young missionaries formulated their conclusions and challenges.

(Excerpt from the Provincial Bulletin of the Vincentian Fathers, Zaragoza, June 2008)

From the Provinces:

(We continue the transcription of the report, which we began in the previous issue of Nuntia, of the Assistant General, Father Gérard Du Tran Cong, after his visit to various missionary sites during April and May.)

Japan: “The visit’s third stage had for its destination the great industrial cities of Osaka and Kobe. The Provincial House of the Daughters of Charity of Japan is located in a small area near Kobe. There a confrere resides, in a parish of Osaka, and another confrere is the Vicar of Osaka’s Cathedral. The confreres are all members of the Philippine Province and principally take care of the Catholic community of Filipino workers and immigrants. Another confrere has just come from Manila and is taking a two-year intensive course in Japanese before being placed in pastoral ministry in the Hiroshima Diocese.

“Every foreign visitor must recognize the discipline of the Japanese, the cleanliness, prosperity, and beauty of the country, especially in Kyoto, Japan’s former capital, where modernity harmonizes with the purest thousand-year-old tradition.”

Australia: “From 7 May to 5 June, the Assistant made the canonical visitation of the Australian Province. The first Vincentians came to Australia from Ireland in 1885 to run a college and seminary in Bathurst at the request of the (Irish) bishop of that diocese. The province was erected in 1926. The confreres’ principal works were teaching and formation in major seminaries (5), education (two secondary schools) and parishes (8). Nowadays only two confreres are employed at two major seminaries, as teacher and formator (rector). Bathurst’s prestigious college, 200 km. west of Sydney, still belongs to the Vincentians (the superior of the community is the President, helped by a chaplain, who is also a C.M.), but the principal (headmaster), a man really animated by the Vincentian charism, and the entire faculty are lay. The eight parishes that the Vincentians had initially have been reduced to three (one near Melbourne and two on the outskirts of Sydney).

“In recent years, in response to the urgent appeal of the Bishop of Townsville, a port city located on the northeastern coast of Queensland, three confreres volunteered to assist the local bishop in a diocese three-quarters the size of France (435,000 km2). It has 15 priests to serve 75,000 Catholics (30% of the population). The superior of the community is the administrator of the cathedral, to which are attached four other churches in the city.

“The province has five local communities: Malvern (Melbourne), Ashfield and Marsfield (Sydney), Bathurst, and Townsville. Currently there are 43 confreres in Australia. The average age is 65.7. Two admitted seminarians (of Filipino and Indian origins) are taking theology courses at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.”

The Fiji Islands Mission: “Spread out in the very heart of the South Pacific, the Fiji Islands are located northeast of New Caledonia and 3000 kilometers from Australia. In an area of almost 18,000 km2, the archipelago is composed of over 300 islands, of which only a hundred are inhabited.

“Three quarters of the 800,000 Fijians live on the largest islands of the archipelago: Vanua Levu and Viti Levu. Suva, the capital of Fiji since 1882, is located on the latter. This city, with more than 160,000 inhabitants, is one of the largest and most populated in the South Pacific. The population is 51% indigenous and 44% Indo-Fijians. The rest are Europeans, Pacific Islanders and a small number of Chinese. Christians make up 52% of the population of which 37% are Methodists and 9% Catholics. The majority of the Indo-Fijians are Hindus; Muslims make up 8% of the population.

“The French Marist missionaries established the first Catholic mission in 1844, nine years after the arrival of the first Methodists. The Indians came to Fiji to work in sugarcane plantations operated by the English.

“In 1959, two Australian confreres begin the first mission station in Natovi on the east coast of the main island of Viti Levu, 60 kilometers north of Suva. The mission covers a wooded area of 2000 km2. Journeys were made on foot or by boat. The mission of Natovi has contributed significantly to the life of the Church in Fiji. The small primary school of the beginning has developed into a secondary school offering education to hundreds of students. Two homes receive girls and boys whose families live far from the parish. Three nuns from a local congregation collaborate with confreres in teaching, running the girls’ home, catechism and altar service. The house set aside for the Daughters of Charity is still there, only 50 meters from the church, but the sisters from the Philippine Province, who taught in the secondary school and cared for patients at the parish clinic, were withdrawn some time ago to engage in another mission. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul has been established and vocations to the priesthood are encouraged. Since the arrival of the Vincentians, the parish of Natovi has given eight priests to the Archdiocese of Suva.

“In 1972 the Major Regional Seminary of the Pacific (Pacific Regional Seminary) was founded for the formation of seminarians coming from various Pacific islands. Since then, ten Vincentian confreres have participated in the formation of the area’s priests, as professors and even rector of the P.R.S.

“In the same year, the Vincentians assumed responsibility for pastoral work in a large parish in Nausori, a locality near Suva. In this new parish, another community of Daughters of Charity, coming from Australia and Ireland, has been established.

“Vocations to follow Christ, Evangelizer of the Poor, came rather quickly. Already in 1973, the first Fijian confrere was ordained a priest in Natovi. In 1986, the Saint Vincent de Paul Formation House was established in Wailoku, a few kilometers from Suva. The candidates go to the Regional Seminary with the diocesan seminarians from several Pacific islands. Students from the Marist Fathers, the Saint Columban Fathers, and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart go to the same seminary.

“Since the establishment of the Formation House, two Brothers made vows and six Fijians were ordained priests. Currently seven Fijian students and three from the Solomon Islands are in formation for priesthood.

“The Vincentian mission in Fiji is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009. The Superior General will participate in this celebration. Since its establishment, 18 Australian and four Indian confreres have worked in this mission with true missionary spirit and Vincentian zeal. Father Alan Finn, currently pastor of Nausori, has spent 44 years in this country and will celebrate his Golden Jubilee of priesthood at the same time as the 50th anniversary of the mission.”

Nominationes

Ordinationes

Necrologium

From the general Curia:The CPAG2010; June “Tempo Forte”; The Superior General; The Assistants General; The Delegate to the Vincentian Family. From the Provinces: Puerto Rico; Zaragoza; Philippines; China; Cuba; Poland; USA-East. Nominationes. Ordinationes. Defuntiones. Read the rest of this entry »

26 June 2008

To the members of the Congregation of the Mission

Tempo Forte (13-18 June 2008) Circular

Dear Brothers,

May the grace and peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ fill your hearts now and forever!

On 13 – 19 June the General Council and I met for our second tempo forte of this year. I have included some of the more significant matters that we discussed in that meeting.

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From the General Curia: New assignments to the Curia House; The Superior General; The Assistants General; General Postulation; Treasurer General; Finance Committeee. From the Provinces: Spain. Madrid; Poland; Peru; Portugal; France; USA-East. From the missionaries: Read the rest of this entry »

From the Church:The Pope’s Trip to the USA; Msgr. Luca Brandolini, C.M.. From the Curia: Activities of the Superior General; General Postulation; Mission in El Alto. From the Provinces: CEVIM; The Mission in Greece; News from Oceania: Read the rest of this entry »

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