The Interprovincial Novitiate of the Congregation of the Mission in the USA has begun publishing a newsletter, VINCENTIAN NOVITIATE NEWS.
This issue focuses on biographies of the 5 novices represent 3 of the USA provinces and provides a brief description of their life in the novitiate.
The Word document, complete with pictures, can be downloaded
The new Provincials gathered in Rome from January 18-24.
Nicola Albanesi (Roma),
José Augusto Alves (Portugal),
Jesús Arzate (Mozambique),
Agnaldo Aparecido De Paula (Río de Janeiro),
Norbert Ensch (Alemania),
Biagio Falco (Napolés),
Roman Gorowski (USA – New England),
Matthew Kallamakal (India Norte),
Michael Ngoka (Nigeria),
Segundo Perugachi (Ecuador),
José Francisco Ramos (América Central),
Euzebio Spisla (Curitiba) y
Daniel Arturo Vásquez (Colombia).
The accompanying daily chronicle in Spanish is not yet available in English.
25 January 2006
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
and the Foundation of the Congregation of the Mission
To the members of the Congregation of the Mission
Dear Brothers,
May the grace and peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ fill your heart now and forever!
I write to you today with great joy as we celebrate once again the Foundation of the Congregation of the Mission. I pray that God might give us the grace to continue to be a vibrant, prophetic presence in the world where we are called to serve and evangelization especially the most abandoned. To do so, I encourage you to continue to reflect in a prayerful way on our Constitutions and Statutes that clearly spell out who we are called to be in the 21st century. As Fr. McCullen pointed out in his letter of introduction to the Constitutions, “Within the covers of this book our identity as a Congregation in the Church is delineated. We must not be content to leave that delineation on paper alone. The text must now be imprinted on our hearts and lived out in our vocation to preach the gospel to the poor.”
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Meeting of the Superior General with the Young Missionaries
from Italy
(Rome, 10th October 2005)
By Alfredo Becerra Vazquez, C.M.
The Superior General, Fr. G. Gregory Gay, C.M., met with the young missionaries from the three Italian provinces. Eleven missionaries participated. Two are from the Province of Rome: Frs. Eugenio Gioia and Mario Puppo; two from the Province of Turin: Fr. Antonello Lodi and Deacon Ignacio Neyda and seven from the Province of Naples: Frs. Salvatore Fari, Vincenzo di Cicco, Carmine Madalese, Valerio Di Trapani, Luis Napoleone, Calogero Di Fiore and Brother Emmanuel Di Luzio. Fr. Alfredo Becerra from the Curia was also present.
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