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Official Visitation to the Holy Family Region (SF) |
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 The First Consultor, Fr. Adam Golec, and the Procurator General, Fr. Vitaliy Gorbatykh, carried out the Official Visitation to the Holy Family Region (SF) in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo from February 1st to 10th. The Visitation was well-prepared from both the practical and spiritual points of view. The Visitators were able to meet ten Local Communities and around 40 confreres.
The situation in the two countries is very diverse. While, at present, Rwanda is experiencing industrial and economic growth, the Dem. Rep. of Congo is tormented by internal conflicts and threats of war. In Rwanda, however, it is clear that the political climate sometimes limits apostolate.
The areas of apostolate engaged in by the confreres of the "Holy Family" Region (SF) can be subdivided into two: the ordinary, which take place within the parish and then particular ones which are carried out in the various shrines (Our Lady of Kibeho; the Merciful Jesus in Ruhango etc.) or in the important help which the Pallottines offer to the Local Church with the printing house Pallotti Press. The growing number of vocations bodes well for the future of the Pallottine community in these countries. PHOTO
Visita Ufficiale alla Regione della Sacra Famiglia (SF |
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Official Visitation in Tanazania and Kenya (IR.TZ) |
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 From January 31st- February 16th 2012, the General Consultors, Fr Francois Harelimana and Fr Gilberto Orsolin completed the Official Visitation of the Delegature of 'the Mother of Divine Love' Province in Tanzania/Kenya (IR.TZ). The Consultors were able to meet and speak personally with all thirty confreres present in that area. They visited ten Parishes under their pastoral care, where various members of the UAC collaborate; the Postulancy at Galappo, Tanzania where nine postulants live. They went to the philosophy house at Arusha, Tanzania with eleven students and the common Theologate in Nairobi, Kenya where there are eleven brothers in collaboration with the Holy Family Region (SF) and the Province of Christ the King (WA) in Ivory Coast. The two Consultors are thankful to all for their hospitality and for the hope they saw in our confreres for our future and for the development of our presence in Tanzania and Kenya. PHOTO
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Fr. Lothar Zimmermann (CJ) |
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 Let us pray for our deceased Confrere:
- Fr. Lothar Zimmermann (CJ), Germany, born 16.11.1927; First Consecration 11.10.1948; Priestly Ordination 27.07.1952; died 08.03.2012.
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Official Visitation of the St. Joseph Delegature (CJ.SA) |
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 Fr. Martin Manus, General Consultor and Fr Markus Reck, General Secretary were on Official Visitation of the St. Joseph Delegature of the Heart of Jesus Province (CJ.SA) from 29th January to February 16th, 2012. They travelled, for the first time, the vast country of South Africa from the east to the west. They carried out the first stage at Merrivale, near to Pietermaritzburg, where the seminary for philosophy and theology is situated. Four Pallottine Formators coming from South Africa, Cameroon, Malawi and Brazil take care of thirty students from more than five English speaking African countries. The celebration of temporary profession for 28 students' was a joyous highpoint.
During the second stage of their journey, they stopped in Queenstown and in Pallotti Farm outside the city where the first Pallottine missionaries established the Catholic Church in a very poor area. Pallotti Farm remains today as a popular spiritual centre and is the location of the Postulancy. The third stage of the journey was to Step-Aside/ George where the Preparatory period occurs. Presently there are six novices together with three Pallottine confreres. The last stage was to Cape Town where the presence of the confrere's of the St Joseph's Delegature decreases, but the Pallottine presence is guaranteed by three Indian confreres from the Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Bangalore) and of the Missionary Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate.
The strong commitment of our confreres demonstrates that the mission and the charism of St Vincent Pallotti are always actualised and can give new impulses of collaboration for the African Church in this jubilee year and in the future. PHOTO
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Meeting of the SAC Juridical Commission |
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From 13th-16th February 2012, the Juridical Commission met in the General House of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. Present were: Fr Vitaliy Gorbatykh (WA) - President; Fr Joy Palachuvattil (NA) - Secretary; Fr Hubert Socha (CJ); Fr Janusz Luczak (PN); Fr Jan Korycki (WA) and Fr Tomas Skibinski (PN). Due to health reasons, Fr Geraldo Denilson (SP) was unable to participate. The main themes dealt with by the Commission are : 1) the directions for the new procedure of the elections for Provincial/ Regional Councils; 2) the protection of minors: legal proceedings in the realm of the SAC and the UAC; 3) the prolonging of the office of Major Superiors- juridical implications; 4) the consent of the Rector General for the nomination of the Rector General of Pallottine Major Seminaries and Institutes of Theology; 5) the motions for the General assembly- definition, structure, content. The next meeting of the Commission was programmed for the end of February 2013. |
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Bibliography: February 2012 |
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 Publications sent to the Generalate in February 2012:
- MAZZINI, Giuseppe, In the sign of democracy, unpublished letters to friends of Scotland and England, in the care of Massimo Scioscioli, Rubbetino publisher, Soveria Mannelli, 2011, pp 383. (in the interior of the book are mentioned the questions regarding the Pallottine mission to London (pp 28-29). On page 110 the curator Massimo Scioscioli expresses thanks for having been able to consult the library of the St Vincent Pallotti Institute.
- PARZYSZEK, Czesław SAC, Kościół - naszym domem (The Church – our home), in "Życie konsekrowane, dwumiesięcznik", nr 1 (93), styczeń-luty 2012, Wydawnictwo Misjonarzy Klaretynów - Palabra, Warszawa 2012, pp. 14-36. ISSN 1231-059X.
- PARZYSZEK, Czesław SAC, The new evangelization as a remedy for dechristianization (La nuova evangelizzazione come remedio per la decristianizzazione) Kontrast, Warszawa 2012, pp. 107. ISBN 978-83-62793-01-3.
- HOLY FAMILY REGION- RWANDA/ CONGO- Divine Mercy as an antidote to the bad that ravages our Society texts from the First Congress on Divine Mercy in the Region of the Grand Lakes, Kabuga from 18-24 October, 2011, Pallotti- Press, Kigali, 2011, pp 276. (Inside is found the contributions of Stanislaw Filipek SAC, Leslaw Gwarek SAC, Desire Bakangana SAC, and Francois Harelimana SAC).
- UNION OF CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE- NIGERIA- Union of Catholic Apostolate Nigeria (UAC), visit of the Superior General Rev Fr Jacob Nampudakam SAC with Rev Fr Norbert Sequeira SAC and first apostolic commitment, Maxim Press, Onitsha 2012, pp 28. (A publication with many photographs illustrating the visit of the Rector General Jacob Nampudakam SAC in Nigeria in February 2012) There is the contribution inside of Chidi Cosmas Onwukwe SAC, 'If St Vincent Pallotti were a Nigerian' (pp 12-14).
- WALLHOF, Hans SAC Mosaic of a Saint- coordinated editorial: Fr Angelo Londero SAC, translated by Fr João B Quaini SAC, 5th adapted edition, Publisher Pallotti Press, Santa Maria 2012, pp 94. (Published in Portuguese from the text of Hans Wallhof SAC in Ferment, n.i/1981, pp 1-28. In the appendix, various prayers of St Vincent Pallotti are found. The book is reprinted on the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of Vincent Pallotti).
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