GENK, Belgium - On Friday 28th April, the day the entire montfortian congregation celebrated their founder Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, the Belgian confreres gathered in Genk to discuss the lineamenta that were sent by the general administration to each entity in view of the General Chapter...
ROME - In December 2016 the project concerning the archives of the General Administration has started. Noortje Lambrichts, an archivist of KADOC, the Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society of KU Leuven (http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/english), has been assigned to the project, which is centered around two main parts...
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...
BANGALORE, India - We the Montfort Missionaries in the Indian Province had our Provincial assembly in view of the forthcoming General Chapter in Rome. The assembly was held at Maria Bhavan, the Scholasticate on 31st of January to 2nd of February 2017 in Bangalore. All the senior professed membersattended the meeting. The total number of the participants for the assembly was 44...
NEW YORK, USA - St. Martin of Tours School in Amityville invited a special guest to help observe Catholic Schools Week on the first week of February 2017. Montfort Father John McCann, SMM a 1939 graduate of St. Martin's, was invited by parish pastor, Father Gerard Gordon, to celebrate the opening and closing Masses. Father McCann, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, was the first St. Martin's graduate to...
NEW MANILA, Philippines - The Montfort Missionaries in the Philippines held their Delegation General Assembly on February 1 to 2, 2017 at New Manila, Quezon City. It was attended by perpetually professed members while the temporary professed members and the novices were asked to be present on the first day. The assembly was presided by the delegation superior, Fr. Richard J. Magararu. The purpose of the...
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - The SMM Philippine Delegation celebrated the commemoration of the birth of our holy founder, St. Louis-Marie de Montfort through a very special event called: “A Night with St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, A Dinner for a Cause”. It was also in line with the Tercentenary Celebration of the Death of Montfort that we are going to close in April this year in Cebu...
ROME, Italy - The confreres of the Italian Province of the Company of Mary, gathered for the provincial chapter at the Curia Generalizia on January 3 to 7, 2017, and have elected Rev. Fr. Mario Belotti as their new Provincial superior on Friday, January 6, 2017, the feast day of the Epiphany of the Lord. Fr. Mario Belotti was born on January 26, 1948 at Grumello del Monte, Bergamo, Italy. He made his first vows on...