November
1997
a)
FROM THE GENERALATE
1. During the month
of December the Rector General, Fr. Seamus Freeman together with Fr. Sergio
Schaub will conduct the Official Visitation of the Italian Province.
2. The Rector General has
sent two Circular Letters to all the Major Superiors of the SAC:
one dated 6.11.1997, regarding Hotel Ponte Sisto (Casa Pallotti)
which informs the members of the return of the Hotel's administration to
the Generalate on 3 November 97; the other regarding criteria to be used
in formulating or renewing Contracts between Provinces and/or Regions
dated 13.11.1997.
3. The Council of the
Secretariat for the Apostolate met at the Generalate from 24 to 28
November. The members concentrated their efforts on: 1) a self-evaluation
of the Secretariat's work to be presented to the Rector General in view
of the XVIII General Assembly; 2) continue with the elaboration of the
draft of "Guidelines for Ongoing Formation".
4. We have sent to all the
Provinces and Regions the "Prayers for the XVIII General Assembly".
They are a concrete sign of everyone's participation and involvement in
this special event for our Society. We ask that everyone continue and intensify
their prayers and preparations for our General Assembly. We still have
some copies available should anyone need them.
5. International College
- Theses:
On 25 November 1997 Fr.
Adam Kowalik (PN.BR) defended his doctoral thesis in Canon Law at the
Pontifical Athenaeum of the Holy Cross: "La nozione di famiglia nell'ordinamento
della Chiesa e nel recente Diritto Internazionale". ("The Concept of Family
in Church regulations and in recent international law"). He is now preparing
to return to the Delegature in Rio de Janeiro.
Fr. Jean N. Ngirabakunzi
(RW), discussed his thesis for the Licentiate in Pastoral Care of Vocations
on 27 November 1997, at the Pontifical Salesian University: "Les defis
de l'inculturation dans Ia Vie Consacree pallottine et dans sa formation
en Afrique Centrale" (The Challenges of Inculturation in Pallottine Consecrated
Life and in its Formation in Central Africa". He will soon return to the
Holy Family Region.
B)
FROM THE PROVINCES/REGIONS/DELEGATURES
1. Perpetual Consecrations
I Priestly Ordinations:
On 6 December 1997 the following
will make their perpetual consecration in our Society: Lulz Carlos da Silva,
Lourival Helio Alves de Araujo (SP).
The Priestly Ordination
of Marcelo Nespoli Magalhaes (PN.BR) will take place on 13 December 1997
in Vila Valqueire, Brazil.
Clesio Facco (SM) will be
ordained to the Priesthood on 14 December 1997 in Nova Palma, Brazil.
2. Publications:
In the process of preparing
the Latin Letters of St. Vincent Pallotti for publication, Fr. Francesco
MOCCIA (IT), has printed an extract, considered to be the spiritual testament
of our Founder, entitled "Lettera ai confratelli Londinesi" (maggio
1849) (Letter to the Confreres in London), Rome 1997.
Fr. Pedro REGINATO (SM),
Passos de uma vida (The Steps of a Life), Ed. Pallotti, Santa Maria
1997.
Fr. Flavian BONIFAZI (IC),
Daily thoughts of St. Vincent Pallotti, IC Province, 1967, reprint.
Fr. Flavian BONIFAZI (IC),
Pathways to Got Meditations for Apostolic Men and Women, IC Province, 1996.
Fr. Flavian BONIFAZI (IC),
Nuestra herencia Palotina, (Our Pallottine Heritage), Spanish translation
under the direction of Fr. Jose' Marcos Juarez (FB.ES), Vitoria 1997.
C) FROM
THE UNION OF CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE
1. The members who participated
in the International Congress of Young Religious, which took place
in Rome from 29 September to 4 October 1997 and in which 400 male and 400
female religious took part, have prepared a message to share their experience
with the members of the Union. Copies have been sent to the Major Superiors
and the Houses of the introductory Period.
FOR YOUR REFLECTION
In
these days we have heard of further difficulties faced by our confreres
in the Holy Family Region (Rwanda). Theirs is a situation that could change
radically from one day to the next. This puts us in mind of all those who
take great risks for the sake of the Gospel. Many of our Members carry
out their service in "frontier apostolates". Often these are priests and
brothers who leave their homelands to give witness to the faith in another
country. Other times these are Confreres who face similar challenges and
dangers right in their own lands: denouncing injustices, working in the
poor sections of cities, going out into the less inhabited regions, etc.
These
Members follow the long tradition of many others who faced all manner of
challenges and dangers to fulfil their mission. It is good that we often
recall the faithful service of those who precede us in the apostolate.
"In the future too, the Church must continue to be missionary: indeed missionary
outreach is part of her very nature" (Tertio Millennio Adveniente, n. 57).
The question for each one of us today is to ask ourselves frequently -
"Is my service truly missionary? How do I give witness to the Gospel in
my life as a member of our Society?".
We
are just about to begin the season of Advent. We celebrate the great Mission
of the Son of God, the Apostle of the Eternal Father, who was sent to bear
all our afflictions and to bring us new life. It is an opportune time to
review our lives, to redouble our efforts in prayer and action, to prepare
the way of the Lord. Let us be united with one another in the bond of faith
and charity. Let us support those whose mission poses particular dangers
and difficulties in any way we can, especially and foremost by our union
in prayer. Let us each resolve to preach the Word, recalling what St. Paul
has written: "Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your
waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet
put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the Gospel of peace. With
all of these, take the shield of faith" (Eph 6:14-16).
October
1997
a)
FROM THE GENERALATE
1. The Rector
General and Fr. Sergio Schaub will officially visit the Spanish Delegature
of the Sacred Heart Province and the local community in Portugal
of the Annunciation Province from October 25th to November 4th.
2. The Finance
Commission of the Society met in Rome from October 9th to 11th, 1997.
Besides the regular members of the Commission two other bursars were invited
as observers: Fr. Babu Pereppadan (IN) and Fr. Erich Schädler (CH).
The commission examined: the financial reports of the Generalate, and of
the Provinces and Regions; the new Manual of Temporal Administration (Manual
for bursars); the current and future situation of Casa Pallotti, making
some recommendations to the General Council in this regard.
3. The Council
of the St. Vincent Pallotti Institute (ISVP), in its meeting of October
2nd 1997, worked out a yearly calendar for formation sessions to be offered
every other month at the General House of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate.
These formational meetings are intended to unite the study of St. Vincent
Pallotti with the spread of his work and spirituality. The Institute invites
all the Pallottine communities of priests, brothers, sisters, and lay faithful
in Rome and its surroundings. For this year the following themes are proposed:
1) The time of St. Vincent Pallotti ( December 11th 1997); 2) Vincent Pallotti
- Apostle and Mystic (February 12th, 1998); 3) The inheritance of Pallotti's
writings (April 23rd 1998); 4) Vincent Pallotti - Founder (June 18th 1998);
5) Pallottine Spirituality (October 22nd 1998). The Council of the ISVP
proposes, as well, to print a publication twice a year called "Pallottine
Notebooks". Its content will be mainly composed of communications regarding
the history and current state of the Pallottine world, information on publications
and theses written on Pallottine themes, and reports on the formation sessions
organized by tehe Institute.
b) FROM THE PROVINCES/REGIONS/DELEGATURES
1. New entrants
into the Introductory Period this month, in our Society, are distributed
as follows: Swiss Province (CH) - 2; Epiphany Province (IN) - 26;
Queen of Apostles Province (IT) - 1; Annunciation Province (PN)
- 24; Christ the King Province (WA) - 22; Sacred Heart Province
( (FB) - 2; Holy Family Region (RW) - 5; Delegature in Cameroon
(LM.CM) - 10.
2. Dates of two
other Assemblies to precede the General Assembly are: Mater Dei
Province (MD): January 20-22 1998; Region of the Holy Spirit (AA): February
22-24 1998.
3. Pallottine
Youth Festival: At Villa del Carmen, Uruguay, on October 19th 1997,
the annual festival was held to gather young representatives from the Pallottine
communities in Uruguay and Argentina.
4. Publications:
An English
translation of the book produced by Fr. Bruno Beyer (FB)and Josef Zweifel
(CH) Ausgewählte Schriften (Selected Writings) has been completed
by Fr. Pat Jackson ((AU) The Spirituality of St. Vincent Pallotti -
Selected Writings, in manuscript.
Fr. Pat Jackson
(AU), Seeking God in All Things - Pallottine Insights into the God Self,
the Cosmos and the Apostolate, in manuscript.
+Fr. Anthony
Peile (AU), Body and Soul - an Aboriginal View, 1997.
Fr. Ilvo Santo
Rorato (SM), O Verbo saído do silêncio. Poemas em
homenagem aos dois mil amos de Jesus Cristo, o Filho de Deus, (The
Word springs forth from Silence, Poems in Honour of the Two Thousand Years
of Jesus Christ, Son of God), Pallotti Press, Santa Maria 1997.
5. We pray for
our Deceased Confrere:
Fr. Antoni
Peksa (WA): born: April 8th 1928; member: August 15th 1949; priest:
June 19th 1953; passed away: September 27th 1997.
c)
FROM THE UNION OF CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE
1. In memory
of the five Pallottine martyrs killed in Argentina in 1976, a play
has been written by Carlos Salum and will be presented in London at The
Onion Shed playhouse (near Oval Tube Station), starting November 18th.
1997. It is produced by Susana Figueredo, director of The Latin American
Theatre Company, U.K. The director is Daniel Heres. The run will last three
weeks. For information on how to book tickets, please, contact Mrs. Figueredo
at 44/181/333-2191. The play which is entitled, "A VOICE SREAMING TO
HEAVEN " chronicles the massacre of Alfredo Leaden, Alfredo Kelly,
Pedro Dufau, Emilio Barletti and Salvador Barbeito at St. Patrick's Church
in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 4th, 1976. The video documentary "The
Honor Of God," filmed by Gabriel Seisbedos about the massacre is available
to all Pallottine communities worldwide. The documentary was edited at
WUSF TV16 in Tampa, Florida and was presented at The Latin American Workshop
in New York City on June 8th, 1997, in conjunction with the International
Human Rights Film Festival. To order a VHS copy in PAL or NTSC contact
Carlos Salum at 1(813)782-7961 or email [salum@gte.net].
If anyone associated with the Pallottines has contacts with a local television
station, they are encouraged to consider proposing the broadcast of the
Betacam SP copy of the documentary.
2. The Councils
of the Italian Provinces (SAC and CSAC) met on October 2nd 1997 to implement
the General Statutes of the UAC. The National Council was nominated
and is composed of, other than the two Provincials, the following: Fr.
Mario Morelli, Sr. Vittorina D'Imperio, and two other members from the
Coordination Centres: Peppe Simeoni and Giutiana Sanapo. Other communities
of the Union have been invited to become part of this Council through representatives.
September
1997
a)
FROM THE GENERALATE
1. The Third
Continental Meeting for Europe took place from September 14 to 18,
1997. The Provincials, Regionals, and Delegates looked toward the coming
of the Third Christian Millenium and at the challenges for our Pallottine
communities. Reports given by each Superior and consequent discussions
highlighted the need for a true personal and community convversion. The
absolute importance of Formation also appeared as a recurrent theme. A
message, to be communicated to the confreres, summarized the experiences
of this encounter. The next continental meeting will take place in the
autumn of 1999 and will be hosted by the Mercy of God Region, France.
2. On September
9th, 1997 the General Council approved the elections in the Holy Family
Region: Elected are: Fr. Stanislaw Filipek, Regional Rector; Fr. Zenon
Bazan, First Consultor; Fr. François Harelimana, Consultor. Their
mandate begins October 15th 1997.
3. Between the
end of July and the beginning of August Fr. Sergio Schaub, General Consultor,
met with the Councils of the six Provincial and Regional communities
and Delegatures in South America, to take note of the results of collaboration
so far on that continent, and in a particular, the efforts made toward
the integration of the Rio de la Plata area. The possible contribution
of the General Council in each case was considered. Besides the exchange
of information, the program of the coming General Assembly was presented
to the councils.
Members of the General Council will be making some visits in the
next months: the General Rector will visit Australia from
September 29th to October 13th; Fr. Jan Kupka will travel to Canada
from October 29th to November 15th and on thoos occasion will participate
in the North American Continental Meeting November 12/13 in Baltimore;
Fr. Wolfgang Weiß will go to Tanzania and Kenya from
November 17th to December 4th.
4. The Rector
General, after the required consultation, has renominated Bro. Jan Pudzianowski
(WA) as Sacristan of the Church of San Salvatore in Onda, for the next
three years.
5. The General
Council in its session of September 9th, 1997, in accordance with our Law,
n. 309, gave its approval for the opening of a new house of the SAC
in the Christ the King Province in Sandomierz (address: ul. Dobkiewicza
12; 27-600 Sando mierz). Sandomierz is also the Diocesan See. Since June
29th, 1997 three confreres work in this parish dedicated to >Christ the
King, Only Saviour of the World <.
6. The Liturgical
Calendar of the SAC has gone to press and will be sent to all Major
Superiors as soon as it is printed.
7. Fr. José
Angel Dominguez (FB.ES) member of the International College Queen of
Apostles has concluded his studies in Catechetics and Pastoral Care of
the Youth at the Pontifical Salesian University. On September 25th he presented
his licentiate thesis entitled, "The Catechetical Process for Adults in
the Catecumenal Style in the Diocese of Bilbao, Analysis and Critical Evaluation."
8. Fr. Francesco
Moccia (IT) is working on the Italian translation of the Latin Letters
of St. Vincent Pallotti (cfr. OOCC Vol. XIII, pp. 757-912).
b)
FROM THE PROVINCES/REGIONS/DELEGATURES
1. Perpetual
Consecrations/ Ordinations:
Christ the
King Province (WA): on September 8th the following Confreres made their
perpetual consecration: Edwin Bonislawski, Wiktor Cyran, Krzysz Gajos,
Czeslaw Kolasa, Jacek Kryn, Ireusz Lukanowski, Tomasz Marakiewicz, Mariusz
Malkiewicz, Miroslaw Mejzner, Rafal Nitek, Waldemar Pawlik, Jacek Smyk,
Slavomir Stancelewicz, and Jozef Zablocki.
Annunciation
Province (PN): on September 8th the following Confreres made their
perpetual consecration: Marek Chmieliak, Walery Felinski, Piotr Gabrys,
Piotr Krszewski, Miroslaw Lwandowski, Zbiegniew Zieba.
Holy Trinity
Province (LM): on October 12th Franz Nguyen made his perpetual consecration.
2. The conferences
of the Christ the King Province who at the beginning of October begin their
work in Colombia and Venezuela are: Fr. Andrzej Maciejewski,
Fr. Slawomir Ciarcinski, Fr. Artur Geringer, - Archdiocese of Medellin,
Colombia; Fr. Adam Gasior, Fr. Pawel Majeswki, Fr. Tadrusz Popiolek - Archdiocese
of Caracas, Venezuela.
3. The Assemblies
in preparation for the XVIII General Assembly continue to be planned:
St. Joseph Region (SA): November 24 to 28; St. Vincent Pallotti Region
(UR): December 29 to 31; Santa Maria Province (SM): January 2 to 6, 1998;
São Paulo Province (SP): January 5 to 8; Epiphany Province (IN):
January 7 to 12; Holy Family Region (RZ): January 19 to 22; Annunciation
Province (PN): January 26 to 31; Christ the King Province (WA): January
26 to 31; Mercy of God Region (FR): February 16 to 20.
4. "Vincent
Pallotti Museum": an important step has been takenin the evaluation
and restoration of the old "Patrimonial Museum" of the Santa Maria Province.
The valuable collections have been reorganized in four halls: 1. Zoology,
Minerology, and weaponry; 2. religious culture; 3. indigenous culture;
4. antiquities.
5. On September
26th 1997 the renovated Pastoral Institute of Friedberg was blessed.
Since 1960 this Institute has been preparing for parish service deacons
and young priests of the SAC Provinces/Regions of the German language and
members of other religious communities.
6. Let us pray
for our Deceased Confreres:
Fr. George
H. Gavin (MD): born: January 7th, 1925; member SAC: September 24th,
1952; priest: June 20th, 1956; passed away: July 11th, 1997.
Fr. Alderidge
Baggio (SM): born: June 6th, 1918; member SAC: February 2nd, 1939;
priest: December 9th, 1945; passed away: August 6th, 1997.
Fr. Matteus
Cassol (SM): born: May 7th, 1922; member SAC: February 2nd, 1944; priest:
December 22nd, 1948; passed away: September 8th, 1997.
Bro. Stanislaw
Gibala (PN): born: May 30th, 1913; member SAC: March 19th, 1934; passed
away: September 14th, 1997.
Fr. Josef
Gronde (LM): born: July 18th, 1917; member SAC: April 9th, 1941: priest:
December 17th, 1944; passed away: September 20th, 1997.
c)
FROM THE UNION OF CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE
1. The formation
of a coordinating body is the result of first National Meeting of the UAC
in India (July 12th, 1997 in Bangalore). This group, constituted
to guide the Coordination Centre, is composed of the following:
Fr. Christudhas, SAC; Joyce Almeida, Krhristsevikas; Sr. Clara, SMAC; Sr.
Judy, CSAC; Fr. Jose Eluvathingal, SAC; Fr. Vijay Thomas, SAC. This meeting
also produced many proposals for the future of the UAC in India.
2. Pilgrimage
to the Marian Shrine in Zakopane: The Christ the King Province (WA)
has decided to organize a Pallottine pilgrimage on October 24/25th, 1997
to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Zakopane. The purpose is, at the
threshold of the Third Millennium, to entrust to Our Lady's intercession:
the world, the Church, and the entire Pallottine Family with all our apostolic
works and our hopes for the future. All of the Pallottine communities and
groups in Poland have been invited to participate.
3. The Congregation
of the Sisters of Catholic Apostolate (CSAC) is preparing to enter
a new missionary field: Mozambique. The new mission in Nova Mambone,
in the Diocese of Inhambane, will be cared for by sisters from various
countries, thus forming an international local community.
4. The South
American winter has been rich in Pallottine events: July 19/20th
- Meeting of the UAC Communities at Curitiba (Brazil) with about 200 participants;
August 29th to 31st - Meeting of the Pallottine Youth from Argentina, Uruguay,
and Bolivia at Morena (Argentina) with about 300 participants; September
12th to 21st - XXVth Youth Week at Turdera (Argentina) with more than 600
participants.
FOR YOUR REFLECTION . . .
At Rossmoyne (Australia) a meeting was held to reflect upon the recent
Document on our Brothers. Bro. Lindsay Rust offered his impression from
this meeting:
"A key issue for us as Pallottine Brothers was our consecration. It stresses
our common commitment together with the priests of the Society and sets
us firmly within Vincent Pallotti's apostolic trust - the Union of Catholic
Apostolate.
Among other issues explored, was Vincent's vision of the Brother. This
vision is found scattered among Vincent's writings about the call of all
to be apostles; it is within that context that we are situated. Vincent
always appreciated the company and collaborative work of the Brothers in
community. The pastoral needs were great and the Brothers at that time
worked as cooks, barbers, sacristans, and offered hospitality to the many
people who came to Vincent seeking spiritual and material help. So, Vincent
did not write theology of brothers; he encouraged and inspired them to
live lives of simple yet profound holiness at the service of people. That
service takes on different forms today.
The heroism of our Brothers, especially in our missions, is often worth
more than a thousand sermons. We, as Pallottine Brothers commit ourselves
to Vincent's vision, together with Pallottine priests, sisters, and lay
people in the union of all our efforts for the Catholic or universal Apostolate.
June
1997
a)
FROM THE GENERALATE
1. The
letter of Convocation of the XVIIIth General Assembly, signed 24
June 1997, was sent to all Major Superiors of the our Society. The "packet"
contains: the Letter of Convocation with four enclosures (on the SAC Law,on
the preparation of the Assembly, on the Brothers, and the reports of the
Provincial and Regional Rectors); the Draft Outline for the working paper
"Faithful to the Future" with a covering letter; the General Statutes
of the UAC with two covering letters: one from the Rector General and one
from the International Council of the UAC; and two prayers for the preparation
of the General Assembly.
2. From
June 6th to 7th, 1997 the annual meeting of the Council of the General
Secretariat for the Missions took place, concentrating this year on
Asia, in particular India. Two presentations dealt with a general social
and religious picture of Asia, and a more specific view of the Catholic
Church in the multi-cultural context of India. The results of the meeting
will be sent to all the Provinces, Regions, and Delegatures in the form
of a brief informational supplement for the next Pallottine Mission Day,
October 5th, 1997.
3. International
College: The following confreres have completed a degree: Fr. Adam
Kowalik ((PN.BR) at the Pontifical Gregorian University: a Canon Law
Diploma specializing in Jurisprudence (the Doctoral Thesis will be defended
in October); Fr. Dionisio Costa (SM) at the Pontifical Gregorian
University: a License in Dogmatic Theology "Christology on the Horizon
of the Spirit" according to Marcello Bordoni; Fr. James Amasi
(IR.TZ) at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas: a License in
Sacred Theology "All are Called to be Apostles - according to St. Vincent
Pallotti"; Fr. Joy Palachuvatti (India) at the Biblical Institute:
a License in Sacred Theology "The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus - Mk 10,46-52)".
4. The
members of the Council of the St. Vincent Pallotti Institute met
three times this year to consider questions of the functioning of the Institute.
The work of the Council has centered on two main points: reorganizing and
systemizing the rooms in use, and defining the criteria for cataloging
and filing the materials present in the Institute. A system has been worked
out for the positioning of the books and a subject catalogue has been initiated
and the insertion of data in the Institute's computer has begun. This autum,
while these activities proceed, the Council wants to start the Institute's
service by preparing a program of reflection and study to be offered to
our confreres of the International Queen of Apostles College.
5. From
June 22nd to 29th, 1997 the Candidates of the Introductory Period of
the German language common house of Formation at Untermerzbach visited
the Generalate to get to know Rome and above all to see the places where
our Founder St. Vincent Pallotti lived.
b)
FROM THE PROVINCES/REGIONS/DELEGATURES
1. Provincial
and Regional Assemblies preceding the General Assemble have been announced
for: Australian Region: Sept 30 - Oct 9, 1997; Immaculate Conception (USA):
Dec 4, 1997; Holy Trinity Province (Limburg, Germany): Dec 28 -31, 1997
and Apr 14 - 17, 1998; Irish Province: Jan 4 - 9, 1998; Swiss Province:
Jan 5, 1998; Sacred Heart (Friedberg, Germany) ; Jan 6 - 10, 1998; Christ
the King (Poland) : Jan 26 - 31, 1998.
2. Perpetual
Consecrations / Ordinatiosn:
In the Province of São Paulo (Brasil), in the Cathedral of
Christ the King, Cornélio Procópio, Denilson Geraldo will
be ordained to the priesthood July 6th, 1997.
In the Holy Family Region (Rwanda), the following will be ordained
to the priesthood: Antoine Baligora on July 6th, 1997 at Nyundo; and Côme-Damien
Iseghundi and Desiré Bakangana on July 10th, 1997 at Rutshuru.
3. The Basilica
"Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix" in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, where Pallottines
of Christ the King Province are in pastoral service, is being prepared
for the II International Retreat for Priests, as part of the preparations
for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. The retreat will take place from
the 8th to the 13th of July 1997. About 2000 participants from around the
world are axpected. The first retreat of this type was held last year at
Fatima.
4. In July 1997
two priests of the Annuntiation Province (Poland) will join Fr. Luis Rojas
at the Immaculate Conception Province (USA) mission at Guadalupe y Calvo,
Mexico where he has been working for some years.
5. Publications:
The XIIIth Volume of the Complete Works (OOCC) of St. Vincent Pallotti
has been printed and will soon be shipped. With this volume the Opere
Complete are complete. We offer our sincere thanks to Fr. Francesco
Moccia (Italy) for his dedicated work for this important project for our
Society. Fr. Bruno Bayer (Friedberg, Germany) continues with the publishing
and printing of the Letters of St. Vincent Pallotti (OCL).
D. Stanislaw T. Zarzycki (Warsaw, Poland) has published "Dietricha von
Hildebranda filozoficzno-teologiczne podstawy duchowosci serca" (Philosophical-Theological
Foundations of the Spirituality of the Heart according to Dietrich von
Hildebrandt), KUL-Lublin 1997.
D. Stanislaw Tylus (Warsaw, Poland) has published "Prace polskich Pallotynów
wsród emigracji [do utwozenia Francuskiej Regii Milosierzia Bozego
- 2 VIII 1946]" (Work of the Polish Pallottines among Emigrants [until
the constitution of the French Region of the Divine Mercy - 2.08.1946]);
in Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Koscielne/Lublin, vol. 66 (1996) 30ss.
The Holy Family Region is printing the second edition of the "Pallottine
Community Prayers" in French, prepared in collaboration by our community
(SAC) and the Pallottine Missionary Sisters (SMAC).
6. We
pray for our deceased confreres:
+Fr. Giuseppe Mitillo (Italy) born April 24th, 1901 and a member
of the SAC since September 28th, 1927, ordained a priest July 26th, 1931,
died May 26th, 1997.
+Fr. Alois Hein (Limburg Germany) born November 19th, 1909 and a
member of the SAC since April 1st, 1932, ordained a priest March 25th,
1936, author and retreat master, died May 27th, 1997.
+Fr. Rudolf Hoppe (Limburg, Germany) born April 20th, 1928 and a
member of the SAC since September 24th, 1950 (first profession at the grave
of the founder in Rome), ordained a priest July 25th, 1954, after a life
of service in the field of education, Provincial Councillor and rector
of the Schoenstatt shrine, died suddenly June 8th, 1997 during the Sunday
homily with the theme "Whoever does the will of my father is mother, brother
and sister to me" at the same altar he had been ordained a priest 43 years
ago.
+Bro. Hermann Hasken (Limburg, Germany) born February 7th, 1915
and a member of the SAC since November 20th, 1938 died suddenly June 10th,
1997.
+Fr. August Skottnik (Limburg, Germany) born March 31st, 1924 and
a member of the SAC since October 11th, 1947, odained a priest July 15th,
1951, a missionary in the Outshoorn region of South Africa as baptizer
of 31,000, builder of beautiful churches in the style of the region and
author of many books in the Xhosa language, including the official liturgical
texts for this language, died suddenly June 11th, 1997.
c)
FROM THE UNION OF CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE
1. On June
21st, 1997 the International Council of the Union of Catholioc Apostolate
met at the Generalate of the SAC and approved the General Statuto
of the Union of Catholic Apostolate "ad experimentum". In view of our XVIIIth
General Assembly, the members will receive a copy of the Statutes with
two covering letters: from the Rector General to the members of the SAC
and from the International Council of the UAC.
2. For
the first time the communities of the UAC in India, CSAC, CMAC,
Khristevikas, Sac, and representatives of the laity, will have a meeting
on July 12th, 1997 in Bangalore, to initiate a new effort to establish
the UAC in India.
3. The
Annual Congress of Pallottine Youth of the Sao Paulo Province will
take place from July 4th to 6th, 1997 in the Major Seminary at Curitiba.
The theme will be "Pallottine Youth towards the Year 2000".
Pallottine
Presence in two new countries
This
September the Christ the King Province (Warcaw Poland) will send three
confreres to work in the Archdiocese of Medellin, Columbia, and three in
the Archdiocese of Caracas, Venezuela. The main reasons which led to this
decision are:
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to bring the Pallottine Charism to those countries of South America;
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to help those local Churches;
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to respond to the request of the young confreres who feel called to realize
their Pallottine vocation in South America.
We
joyfully acknowledge the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to our young confreres.
We wish them an effective and fruitful entrance into these local churches,
an a constant collaboration with the other Pallottine communities of South
America. In fact "effective renewal and authentic adaption cannot be
achieved save with the cooperation of all the members of an institute"
(Perfectae Caritatis, 4).
May
1997
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