PONCHÂTEAU, France – Monday, May 1, 2023 has been chosen by the Ecclesiastical Province of Western France as a day of prayer for vocations. The choice of the place of the nine bishops for this historical event fell on the Calvary of Pontchâteau. In a superb day of grace, 3,500 faithful have arrived since in the morning with their bishops and priests. In the Hall of the Temple, the dioceses had set up their stands as well as the Montfortian Family, to present the variety and the beauty of the different vocations...
To tell all that Fr. Angelo VITALI, SMM, made us relive with his testimony of commitment to the poor, young drug addicts, AIDS patients and in prisons, is impossible. This demand from young people: "tell us about death" which killed our colleague all night, will destroy us too! ....
The morning opens with the visit of Fr. Pier Luigi NAVA, SMM Italian currently under-secretary of the Dicastery of Consecrated Life. With his very lively speech, he offers us orientations for our congregational journey in fidelity to the Church and to our mission in the challenges of today....
The 38th General Chapter of the Company of Mary opened this morning in the splendid setting of the retreat house of the Passionist Fathers in Rome. After the innumerable round trips to Fiumicino airport by Brother Désiré and the other members of the Generalate, we were almost complete this morning....
MARIENHEIDE, Germany – On April 28, the General Delegation of Germany and the Parish of Marienheide celebrated two anniversaries: the 350th anniversary of the birth of Saint Louis-Marie and the 60th anniversary of the Church dedicated to Montfort...
LOURDES, France - From April 16 to 22, 2023 the Montfortian Hospitality of France celebrated its 74th Pilgrimage to Lourdes. This year's theme was inspired by the instruction of the Virgin Mary to the priests of the Parish of Lourdes through the voice of Bernadette: "Let us build a chapel here".
ROME, Italy, April 19, 2023
«With consecration, a person ceases to refer to himself; he orients himself resolutely towards Jesus Christ who is the center of his new life».
«With consecration, a person ceases to refer to himself; he orients himself resolutely towards Jesus Christ who is the center of his new life».
RUTENG, Indonesia – Some Daughters of Wisdom and Montfort Fathers who are in charge in Montfortian Novitiate in Flores celebrated the Holy Week together with prisoners. The place is so close to Montfortian Novitiate but a little bit far from the community of Daughters of Wisdom.