On 6 October 2022, Father Luiz Augusto STEFANI, SMM, Superior General, in accordance with our Constitutions (C 145), and with the consent of his Council, named Father Heredi (Edy) SUHARTONO, SMM as Novice Master for the Noviciate of the Province of Indonesia. This nomination is effective starting from 1st November 2022...

VATICAN – Thursday, 29th September 2022, Pope Francis announced the appointment of ten new consultors to the Dicastery for Communication at the Vatican. Fr. Andrew KAUFA, SMM, a member of the Company of Mary is one of them. Fr. Andrew Ulemu KAUFA, SMM is currently the Coordinator of the Social Communications Department of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa (AMECEA) in Nairobi, Kenya...

FLORES, Indonesia - On Saturday, October 1, 2022, the Feast of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, one of our confreres, Deacon Sixlus Rikardus DEPA, SMM (Sintus) was ordained priest at the Hall of the St. Paulus Ledalero, Maumere. He received the sacrament of priesthood with 11 other SVD deacons, with the ordaining bishop, Mgr. Vincent SENSI, Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ende...

SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-SÈVRE, France - A beautiful experience on the “Pas de Montfort” took place on the initiative of the Montfort Missionaries, on the occasion of the FIM (International Montfort Formation)...

ROME, Italy - In the framework of the spiritual exercises, the General House community organized its annual retreat from Sunday, September 25th to Friday, September 30th, 2022, in the General House of the Brothers of Saint Gabriel. The retreat was facilitated by Fr. Sergio GASPARI, SMM and had as its theme “the descent to the top”. This is how Gregory of Nyssa defines humility...

GITEGA, Burundi - It is under this annual theme dedicated to the Holy Spirit, with Mary, that the initiation year 2022-2023 at the Montfort Scholasticate in Gitega, Burundi opened on Saturday, September 24th. This opening ceremony was preceded by a week divided into two: the three days were devoted to the session about Montfortian Spirituality and the other three days to the annual retreat...

LEUVEN, Belgium - On September 8, 2022, we celebrated the 70 years of religious life of Father Jozef BRAKEN, SMM in Genk. The confreres of Leuven and D'Hoppe first met in the Eucharist presided over by the superior of the delegation, Father Jos VAN DEN BERGH, SMM...

LOURDES - Pilgrimage to Lourdes in July: A personal and community experience encounter with God and with others in the footsteps of Saint Bernadette. From the Latin peregrinus, pilgrimage means "to go far". The pilgrim is the one who travels far, who goes to a foreign country and stays there. Then, gradually, the word will become "pilgrimage" as travel to holy places for religious purposes...