The magazine Mundo Negro of the Comboni Fathers will give, next Saturday, 23 February, the “Mundo Negro a la Fraternidad 2007” award to the Argentine missionary Pedro Opeka, a Vincentian Father, according to IVICOM news service.

A Colloquium for Young Vincentian Researchers organized by SIEV was held at the Motherhouse in Paris the 3rd to the 16th of February. The participants were chosen and sent by their respective Visitors. The presentations were made by confreres (and a Sulpician priest speaking on the French [...]

Faithful to the will of the Visitors, and with the unanimous support of my Council, I write each and every one of you to reflect deeply upon the importance of on-going formation in your personal life as well as in the life of the local community, your province, and the Congregation

From the General Curia: New Visitors’ Meeting; Condolences to Father Ubillús; Father Manuel Ginete. From the Provinces: Kenya: Worrying Days; North India: Uncontrolled Violence; Brazil, Curitiba: A festive 25 January; Slovenia: The Celje House; Vice-Province of Nigeria: Annual Vice-Provincial Meeting; Diaconal Ordination and Vows; Blessing and [...]

For two days, from January 31 to February 01 this year, the International Heads of the Vincentian Family came together for their annual meeting. It was held here in the Curia Generalizia of the Congregation of the Mission.

As always, God invites us to holiness in community. We need to be careful, as we share the message of Lent with those we serve, that we always encourage Lent’s effectiveness in ourselves. I would like to strongly recommend to you, my brothers, that this Lent we share a common effort to improve our prayer [...]