GURU MANDIR, India - This year 2022, the Guru Mandir community has witnessed once again a great blessing from the Almighty through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Favours. From the time we renovated the grotto of Our Lady of Favours, numerous miracles have taken place...
ITALY - The Superior General recently authorized the opening of two new communities for the Province of Italy. Following a long discernment and in response to wanting to "dare to risk for God and humanity", the Italian Province has in fact accepted to engage in the pastoral unit "Val del Riso" in the diocese of Bergamo and the sanctuary "Madonna di Caravaggio in Codogno”, in the diocese of Lodi. These two new foundations are placed in the spirit of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Montfort and the 75th anniversary of his canonization...
CANADA - After a long period of estrangement due to the pandemic, the Montfortian associates of the Shrine of Mary Queen of Hearts were happy to meet again on Saturday, October 8th, 2022, to renew their commitment by giving new life to the sense of belonging to the family that we form as associates and to our availability to respond to the needs that arise...
BULACAN, Philippines – In the spirit of the continental mission year of Asia and Oceania, the Montfortian Missionary priests hosted a Planning and Retreat on August 19 and 20, 2022 at the Montfort House of Prayer in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan with their collaborators and lay associates. The purpose of the event was to summarize and reiterate the Continental Mission Year Conference that the SMM priests had attended in Indonesia as well as to strengthen the bond to spread the spirituality together with the lay collaborators...
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – In line with the Continental Mission Year of Montfort Missionaries in Asia and Oceania 2022 and with the aim to visit and see the present situation of the conferrers and collaborators of the Montfortians here in the Philippines, Rev. Fr. Luiz Augusto STEFANI, SMM, the Superior General of the Montfort Missionaries, scheduled his canonical visitation to all the SMM communities...
NETHERLANDS - Directed by Gabrielle Provaas, camera Pim Hawinkels, sound Sander den Broeder, production company Tomtit Film and EO. With support from Limburg Film Office and the Dutch Film Fund. Broadcast date: spring 2023. The synopsis states...
MONTREAL, Canada - Since the beginning of October, about fifteen people have been preparing to consecrate themselves to Christ Wisdom through the maternal mediation of the Virgin Mary. At the rate of a one-hour session per week, the consecration will take place on December 8, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate - Conception of the Virgin Mary, the All Holy...
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - The missionaries of the Company of Mary welcomed two new deacons, namely: Armel R. COLLANTES, SMM, and Samuel M. GONZALES, SMM. The Ordination to the Sacred Order of Deacons was held last October 9, 2022, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The Ordination took place at Sta. Teresita Parish, Makati where it was led by Most Rev. Dennis C. VILLAROJO D.D., Bishop of Malolos...
HAITI - The vocation to the religious life is becoming increasingly rare in our world today. The young people, preoccupied with the questions of survival in a society in constant turmoil and the resulting doubts, are afraid to engage in this way of life based essentially on faith and trust in the Lord. But all is not over. The Spirit still blows and manages to touch hearts to prepare them and send them into the vineyard of the Lord...
VROENHOF, Netherlands - It was a beautiful day and a nice excursion to the 'new' Montfortian home of the Belgian confreres in Kessel-Lo. The driver of the bus was well instructed and let go of us at one point. And we, after a short church service in the nearby chapel, just wandered around the monastery to see everything there was to see: confreres, rooms, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, toilets, basement and a whole lot more...
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...