CONGREGAZIONE DELLA MISSIONE
CURIA GENERALIZIA
Via dei Capasso, 30 Tel. (39) 06 661 3061
00164 Roma – Italia Fax (39) 06 666 3831
e-mail: cmcuria@tin.it
30 July 2006
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!
With great joy I write to you today as we celebrate the feast of St. Justin De Jacobis, missionary par excellence in Ethiopia and Eritrea. I pray that, through his intercession, 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.
At this time I would like to announce the recipients of the Mission Award for 2006. They are from the Provinces of Ethiopia, North India, Slovakia, Rio de Janeiro and Zaragoza. Below, I give a brief description of these projects, indicating how they show missionary creativity in the evangelization of the poor. Each project recipient will receive US $20,000. Because of the size and nature of the projects submitted, the General Council has once again decided that all the award money will be given to the recipients in 2006, instead of awarding the money over a two-year period, as was described in the application form received by all the Visitors. [...]