KISANGANI, DRC - As usual the Montfortian family in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gathered for their annual retreat. This year the retreat took place at the “Mgr Grison Center” of the Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians) in Simissimi in the Archdiocese of Kisangani. The participants: 9 Daughters of Wisdom, 1...

KISANGANI, RDC - On Saturday, June 25, 2022, the Montfortian family of Kisangani - the Montfort Fathers, the Brothers of Saint Gabriel, the Lay Associates and the postulants organized a pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine located in the property of Montfort Missionaries in Kisangani. It should be noted that it was for the very first time since its construction a few years ago and whose final project is to be erected later as the very first Marian Sanctuary in the Archdiocese of Kisangani...

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...

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...

GITEGA, Burundi - While the entire Catholic Church was celebrating “Our Lady of the Rosary”, the particular Church of the Archdiocese of Gitega, more precisely the Montfortian Parish “Mary, Daughter of Nazareth” was in great joy to welcome again Bishop Simon NTAMWANA for the blessing of the parish church whose first stone was laid by him last year in August 2020...

KISANGANI, RDC - On Wednesday, 7th April 2021, his Excellency Marcel Utembi Tapa, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kisangani / DR Congo, presided over the Holy Mass at Saint Paul Apostle Parish (in Kisangani). During the Eucharistic Celebration, there was the diaconal ordination of the three brothers: Robert Natutwande, Elisée Kambale and Ignace Messinou. All of them are Montfort Missionaries of the Company of Mary and members of the General Delegation of Francophone Africa / GDFA. The first two are Congolese, while the third is a Togolese (the very first time to have a Togolese deacon in our Entity)...

KISANGANI, RDC - On the Feast of the Annunciation, the General Delegation of Francophone Africa celebrated Mass with the Montfortian family. The Mass began at 4:40 pm and was presided by Father Constantin, the Delegation Superior...

KIBIBI, Congo - On 25 March 2017, the solemnity of the Annunciation of our Savior, in the parish church of Saint Paul the Apostle of KIBIBI, Father Henri ALOTEREMBI said "YES" before God and his witnesses in the hands of Monseigneur Dieudonné MADRAPILE Tanzi, Bishop of the diocese of Isangi, surrounded by religious and secular priests. He received the imposition of hands making him the ninth Congolese...

KISANGANI, RD Congo – On 4 July 2015, in the chapel of the « Maison Providence Deo Soli », Fr. Eugenio Cucchi, presided the closing mass of the formation year 2014-2015 of the postulants. This mass also marked the beginning of the formation year of the three young Congolese and two...

Inauguration of the Tercentenary
of the Death of Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort in Rwanda

RDC: Celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation in the Montfort Family
in Democratic Republic of Congo

CONGO: the newly professed with DW in Kinshasa, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception