QUEZON CITY, Philippines - After two years of non-physical activities, the Montfort Spirituality Center, headed by Rev. Fr. Federick YUMANG, SMM, along with the lay associates of Mary, Queen of All Hearts, opened its doors to the lay faithful on a Lenten Recollection with Mary and St. Joseph last March 19, 2022. The theme was “Walking Along the Margins with St. Joseph” with Rev. Fr. Mauricio “Mau” Ulep, CMF as its recollection master...
ROME, Italy - On Sunday, March 13, 2022, the General House Community had the joy and the privilege to welcome the Ambassador of Haiti to the Holy See (Vatican), His Excellency Jean Jude PIQUANT...
KISANGANI, RDC - On March 23, 2022, during the Eucharistic celebration, our colleagues Trésor (Congolese), Ephrem (Congolese), François (Burundian) and Éric (Burundian) made their perpetual vows. Éric and François are the first two Burundians to make their perpetual vows...
MONTREAL, Canada - A recollection, with the theme With Him, being reborn differently, was held on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at the Sanctuary Marie-Reine-des-Cœurs, with Brother Guy St-Onge, Brother of Saint-Gabriel, as preacher...
ROME, Italy - On Sunday, 27th of March 2022, twenty-two lay people renewed their consecration to Jesus through Mary according to the teachings of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort at the Sanctuary of Mary Queen of All Hearts in Via Romagna. The day began with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 11:00 a.m. at the Generalate grotto. It was presided by Fr. Jailos MPINA, SMM along with SMM Fathers Richard MAGARARU, Benjie NOTARTE, Steve MUKUSA and Montfort SOUFFRANT as concelebrants...
MONTRÉAL, Canada - Father Claude Sigouin, SMM was born in Montréal, Canada, son of Henri Sigouin and Aurore Bouchard. He was baptised on 13 March 1936, the day after his birth, at Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus parish. He pronounced his perpetual vows in the Montfortian Congregation (Company of Mary) on 15 August 1961. He was ordained to priesthood on 17 March 1962 by Bishop Rémi Augustin, a Haïtian Montfortian bishop, at Notre-Dame de Lourdes parish in Vanier, Ontario, where we are still ministering...
GITEGA, Burundi - The celebration of the Annunciation Solemnity, which is a feast for the whole Church in general, was carried out in a particular way at the Montfort Scholasticate, since it is a primordial feast for the Montfortian family...
MANAKARA, Madagascar - The Father Superior of Madagascar Entity, Fr. Bruno, had taken the opportunity to visit our colleagues working in the South-East of Madagascar (in Mananjary) after the passage of cyclone Batsirai. It should be noted that, by the grace of God, the two confreres on site are doing well (Fr. Jean Baptiste and Fr. Solofo Victor). Father Bruno, on this occasion, visited his family, not far from Mananjary, in Manakara: “It was a great joy to meet again”. Batsirai is a very intense cyclone which caused enormous damage. What is observed first is the absence of roofs on nearly nine out of ten houses. Hard dwellings have seen their sheet metal roofs torn off...