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CONGREGAZIONE DELLA MISSIONE
CURIA GENERALIZIA

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29 March 2006

To the Visitors of the Congregation of the Mission

Dear Brothers,

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

As I mentioned in my circular of 15 March, which concerned our most recent tempo forte council meeting, we had begun looking for a new Treasurer General to replace Fr. Elmer Bauer. Today I write to inform you that we have found one. Fr. John GOULDRICK has accepted graciously our request that he take up this service for the worldwide Congregation and the Eastern Province is making the sacrifice, equally graciously, of a valuable confrere.

Let me offer you a brief presentation of Fr. Gouldrick. He was born on 5 May 1941 in Victor, New York. He entered the Congregation of the Mission on 19 June 1962 and was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1969. He has served in a variety of ministries over the past 35 years including that of Provincial Treasurer of the Eastern Province. He is presently the superior at the Central House in Philadelphia. I believe that he comes to us very well prepared to serve as Treasurer General.

We expect him to arrive in Rome sometime in September. Fr. Elmer Bauer and he will be working out the details of the transition and Fr. Elmer will stay on as long as necessary to assure that the changeover is smooth.

I trust that you join me in welcoming Fr. Gouldrick to this new service and in thanking Fr. Bauer for the generosity with which he has fulfilled this position for the past seven years.

Your brother in St. Vincent,

G. Gregory Gay, C.M.
Superior General

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Father Alberto Vernaschi (Rome), Father Giuseppe Tutati (Turin), Father Paul Golden (USA – Midwest), Father Eli Chaves dos Santos (Rio de Janeiro), and Father Juan Julian Díaz Catalán.

The Commission for the Revision of the Statutes of the Congregation has met for the first time. This Commission was formed by the Superior Council and his Council to assist the Visitors of the Congregation in their study of certain modifications and to provide new suggestions for the Statutes of Congregation to the next General Assembly of 2010.

From March 6-9 the Commission met for the first time to study the revision of the Statutes. This Commission is composed of five confreres from different provinces: Father Alberto Vernaschi (Rome), Father Giuseppe Tutati (Turin), Father Paul Golden (USA – Midwest), Father Eli Chaves dos Santos (Rio de Janeiro), and Father Juan Julian Díaz Catalán. We will continue to inform you about their work.

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H.E. Mgrs. Franc Rodé, C.M., Prefect of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, visited the Curia of the Congregation of the Mission on 6th March, 2006. Mgr. Rodé shared the table in a climate of friendship and cordiality with the member of the Curia and other confreres coming from other Province, as part of some commissions at the Curia. Our confrere, Mgr Franc Rodé will be created a cardinal of the Holy Church by Holy Father, Benedict XVI. Congratulations!!!

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NUNTIA FEBRUARY 2006

10. Holy See

New Vincentian Cardinal. On 22 February, Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, made known the names of 15 new cardinals who will be created in the Consistory on 24 March. Among the new voting cardinals is Archbishop Franc Rodé, C.M., Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Msgr. Rodé is 71 years old. He was born on 23 September 1934 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1945 his family took refuge in Austria and in 1948 moved to Argentina. He entered the Congregation of the Mission on 2 February 1952. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Catholic Institute of Paris, where he obtained a doctorate in theology. He made his vows on 7 March 1957. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1960. In 1965, at the request of his superiors, he returned to Yugoslavia where he served as a parochial vicar, director of studies of the Congregation and professor in the theology faculty in Ljubljana (1966-1968), and Visitor (1973-1979). He was a consultant for the Secretariat for Non-Believers in 1978. En 1981 he was transferred to that Dicastery and named Vice-secretary in 1982. In 1993, the Pope united the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for Non-Believers, putting him in charge of the new Pontifical Council for Culture (1993-1997). On 5 March 1997 he was named Archbishop of Ljubljana and consecrated as such on 6 April 1997 in the Cathedral of Ljubljana. On 11 February 2004 he was named Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. He will be created a Cardinal in the Consistory of 24 March 2006. The new cardinals come from various parts of the world and fulfill diverse functions at the service of the People of God. The Holy Father invites us to pray for them so that the Lord might grant them the graces necessary to carry out their mission with generosity. On 23 March a prayer and reflection meeting will be held with all the members of the College of Cardinals. The day following the Consistory, 25 March, Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord, the Holy Father will preside a solemn celebration with the new cardinals. Msgr. Rodé is the first Vincentian Cardinal of the Latin Rite.
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The Superior General, in his letter to the visitors and local superiors dated 24 January 2006, mentioned of organizing a special study session to train some members from provinces to assist confreres who find themselves in difficult situations. Accordingly a commission was set up consisting of Varghese Thottamkara (Procurator General – coordinator), Michael Joyce (Midwest USA), Wiel Bellemakers (Holland), and Carlos Albeiro Velasquez (Colombia). The commission had its first session in Curia Generalizia from March 7th to March 10th, 2006.

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The Vincentian Saints & Blesseds
(Biography and Liturgy)

The Fr. Jose Aikara, C.M., Provincial South Indian Province presented the book the “Vincentian Saint and Blesseds”.

This book is the compilation of biographies and liturgies of the “Saints and Blesseds” of Vincentian Family Fr. Augustine Palayilthayil, C.M., who is a versatile Scripture scholar and a linguist, who completed his theological studies and research in Salamanca, Spain. He was ordained Priest in the Congregation on the Mission in 1964. A lion’s share of his Priestly Ministry was spent in the formation of the future missionaries. Along with the teaching in the seminaries he has contributed greatly in the liturgical text. He has translated the complete Bible into Oriya. Besides that he has also translated the lectionaries and the Sunday reflections in Oriya to the advantage of the Orissa church. The present book is another example of his illustrious efforts in the facilitating the liturgy especially of the Vincentian families.

I am sure that this book will be of immense use to all in general and to the Vincentian double Family in particular. I take this opportunity to thank Fr. Augustine on behalf of the Province, for his painstaking undertakings. And I invoke God’s blessing and wish every success for wider circulation and use of this book in the liturgical services.

For copies of this book and for more information. Please contact:
Rev. Jose AIKARA, C.M.
Vincentian Provincialate
No. 419, 2nd Main
“C” Layout, Bannimantap
Mysore – 570 015
Karnataka, INDIA

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40th Anniversary of the Province of Fortaleza of the Congregation of the Mission in Brazil

INVITATION

With great joy the Vincentian Missionaries invite you to the Eucharistic Celebration, at which we begin the Celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Province of Fortaleza of the
Congregation of the Mission and the 80th Anniversary of the
San José House of the Missions
in the Benfica district – Fortaleza – Ceará

Date: 30 March 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Auditorium of the Colegio São Vicente – Provincial House

Yours sincerely,
Fr. Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M.
Provincial Visitor of Fortaleza

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