Our Journey to Rome We who write to you are students of the Alberoni College in Piacenza, Italy. This weekend we traveled to Rome for a spiritual retreat at the Provincial house. Father Nicola Albanesi CM, Visitor of Italy, held the retreat. Our director, Father Georges Maylaa CM, accompanied us. We are eleven students, nine […]
Archbishop Juliusz Janusz, the Apostolic Nuncio in Slovenia, announced that Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Emerit Anton Stres, CM as the new adviser at the Pontifical Council for Culture. According to Archbishop Janusz, this decision of the Holy Father is a personal recognition not only of Archbishop Stres, but also of the entire Church in Slovenia. […]
Meeting of COVIAM 2018 – Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (April 18-20, 2018) Participants Abba Hagos Tewolde, rector of the common theologate of COVIAM in Enugu / Cyril Mbata, Visitor of Nigeria / Memheru Mekonnen, Visitor of Etiopía / Ondoua Clemente, Visitor of Cameroon / Moninga Léon, International Mission in Chad / Alexandre ZR, Visitor […]
On Wednesday, 4 April, in the lively Vincent House in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), we waited for Father Tomaž Mavrič, Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission, to arrive. We only knew Father TomažfromlettershewroteandlivefromadistancewhenweattendedtheSymposiuminRome lastOctober.Sowelookedforwardtoactuallymeetinghim. TogetherwithsomefriendsoftheCMHouseinPanningen,hearrivedinLindenholt,aneighborhood builtinthe70softhelastcentury.First,ofcourse,handshakingandsomecoffee.Next,a tour in the recently opened new Vincent House where Linda van Aken and Frits Jans proudly showedtheFifty-CentsShop,thelivingroomwherepeoplearewelcometodropinforacupof coffeeand,ofcourse,thesocialrestaurant. […]
Visitors from around Europe gathered in Beirut, Lebanon (Province of Orient) for annual meeting of CEVIM – Conference of Visitors of Europe and Middle East from Sunday, April 8 through Friday, April 13, 2018. We present the short report from the event. Sunday Formally, Sunday was not the part of the CEVIM meeting, but it […]
The last two General Assemblies proposed evangelization in the field of communication as an apostolate that is necessary for carrying out our mission in today’s world. In addition, it is evident that we need to avail ourselves of the technological means to keep in contact with the more than 3000 missionaries of the Congregation of […]
The report of the Tempo Forte February 2018 is now available.
Launching of an innovative project, resulting from the synergy between the Vincentian Volunteer Groups, the Congregation of the Mission, the Tre Fontane Cooperative Society, the non-profit Linaria Association and some individuals. Because of the 400 years of the Vincentian charism – recently celebrated with the jubilee that gathered in Rome at the International Symposium to […]
To all the members of the Congregation of the Mission My dear confreres, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! With the Advent letter in 2016, we began reflecting on the pillars of our Founder’s spirituality: the Incarnation, the Holy Trinity, and the Eucharist. In this Lenten letter, we will […]
With great joy for the Congregation of the Mission, I want to announce to you that yesterday we formally erected the Province of Vietnam. The story of this event is much greater than the immediate preparations, beginning with the first missionaries to South East Asia that laid the foundations for this day. Just about one […]
