Vincentian Missionary Formation Session

A Vincentian missionary formation session will be held in Paris (November 10-30, 2019) and it is hoped that we will be able to offer this on-going formation each year. This formation session has been organized by the International Formation Center and has involved the collaboration of Father Aarón Gutiérrez, CM (Assistant General, responsible for the missions).

The purpose of this formation session is to give continuity to the new impulse with regard to the missions ad gentes … a focus that was initiated during the time of Father Robert Maloney, CM who created new international teams to minister in various missionary areas. In a letter addressed to the Visitors, Regional Superiors and Superiors of the various International Missions, Father Aarón and Father Andrés stated: formation is an on-going process in which individuals are able to reflect on their past experience and then share those experiences with others so that those experiences can be critically analyzed by the group with the expectation of more effective ministry in the future. This formation provides an opportunity for personal and community growth in the area of missionary outreach (an elements that has always been encouraged by our Congregation.

Objectives of this formation session:

To give new life to the experience of being sent forth as disciples by Jesus Christ in order to continue his mission.
To reaffirm and strengthen the commitment to evangelize in places that are beyond the boarders of one’s homeland. To move from a certain provincialism in order to clothe oneself in the universal aspect of the Church and the Congregation and in order to discern the signs of the time.
To deepen their understanding of the Ratio Missionum of the Congregation in order to grow in accord with the criteria, values and attitudes of their missionary vocation and to live that vocation in a more committed and radical manner.

This formation session is composed of three modules: [1] missionary insertion; [2] Biblical, theological and congregational understanding of mission; [3] mission: personal and community growth.

The organizers appeal to the generosity of the major superiors in the hope that they will send new missionaries to this formation session and encourage those who are ministering in the missions to participate in this formation session in order to be more effective in their ministry.

For further information and in order to register please direct your messages to:

Director of CIF: Fr. Andrés María Román Motto, CM

Email: andresmottot@gmail.com