NUNTIA - November 2012 (English)

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O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for

us who have recourse to you.

The EditorComing to the end of this month of November, when we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of the MiraculouMedal, we place in your hands this issue ofNuntia. May MARY, the believing woman, faithful to Go

continue inspiring us in our Christian commitment to strive every day to be good news for the poor.

The Superior GeneralHis November activities began with a trip to CubaThe annual meeting of AMMs International Council was held in Cuba. Its members met in the ProvinciaHouse of the Daughters of Charity on the 3 rd and 4th. Present were: Sister Carolina Flores from Mexico

Executive Secretary of AMM International; Mrs. Olimpia Ruano from Portugal, AMM Councillor; and JulioAdolfo Castellanos from Guatemala, AMM Councillor. Also present was Sister Iliana Suarez, GeneraCouncillor of the Daughters of Charity. At this meeting the journey of the Association was evaluated; reports on the countries and regions were given; and the tasks proposed for each year, as well as the newones, were reviewed. An interesting detail is the growth that the Association is experiencing in the worldA clear example of this is Slovakia, which has scarcely begun and already has more than a hundred constituted groups. Another important aspect is that they have started organizing the first General Assembly, which is scheduled for 2014, from 17-24 November in Rome. The principal aim will be to promotthe participation and communion of every member of the Association. The Council meeting ended on th4th with the Eucharist in the Parish of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, accompanied by various groups

of the Association.

The next Council meeting will be in one year in PanamaCity. AMMs website offers a variety of formation materialshat can be very useful for that purpose. Among these are

some catechetical presentations for the Year of Faith de-veloped by Juan Bautista Iborra, Subdirector General ofAMM International. We invite you to visit it:

http://www.amminter.org.
http://www.amminter.org/http://www.amminter.org/


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News Bulletin from the General Curia of the Congregation of the

Mission

The principal objective of the visit to Cuba was to meet with the cofreres serving in Cuba, while celebrating 150 years of the CMs preence in this Caribbean country. In this respect the Superior Genewas able to meet with all the confreres, except two who work in thParish of San Francisco and who were unable to travel to Havana, bcause that area was very affected by Hurricane Sandy. There was so a meeting with confreres from different provinces, who had come fthe celebration. The dialog was on Reconfiguration. Present at thmeeting were: Orlando Escobar, Visitor of Colombia; Noel Mojica,Colombian missionary and former Visitor of Cuba; Faustino BurgoVisitor of Puerto Rico; Evaristo Oliveras, Provincial Treasurer of PuerRico; and Francisco Sols, Visitor of Venezuela. The exchange amothe confreres of the other provinces and those of the Province of Cub

was very fruitful.

Father Gregory met with those in formation, both the CM and the DC. Four young men of the CM astudying philosophy in the Major Seminary of Havana and there are five Seminary Sisters and Postulanof the DC. The Formators of the Sisters, as well as other Daughters of Charity, also participated. Thprincipal topics were on Fathers reflections concerning the Synod of Bishops on New Evangelization anthe Year of Faith; the Vincentian Family and reconfiguration.

He also had a meeting with the Vincentian Family in the Parish of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medawhere different members took part. It is necessary to highlight too the participation of two groups

young women of the parish: one called Prophets and the other called Disciples. They are young peopwho want to live out the Vincentian charism in a more local way, within the limits of their parish, as part its pastoral work with youth. The meeting concluded with the Eucharist.

The Superior General met also with the Daughters of Charity, who were finishing a retreat facilitated bSantiago Azcrate from the Province of Saragossa. In another moment he met with the majority of thDaughters of Charity when, among other things, the topics of the Synod of Bishops, the Year of Faith, bespecially reconfiguration, were addressed. The latter is well on its way in order to make a single proince from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.


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Saturday, 10 November, was the great celebration marki150 years of the presence of the Congregation of the Msion in Cuba. Father Gregory presided the Eucharist, co

celebrated by the confreres, and with the participation of dferent branches of the Vincentian Family. The homily won the call that the Vincentian Family has to be Good Nefor the poor, as the CM has done these past 150 yearsCuba. Congratulations to the province on this anniversaand for its desire to continue being good news for the poor

After his visit to Cuba, the Superior General returned Rome, where he had different office activities, includmeeting with the General Council. Then he travelled to P

is on 14 November for a meeting with Daughters of Charfrom some of the English-speaking countries. From thehe went to Ireland where he celebrated, together with tconfreres, the beginning of a new Vincentian mission, whhopes to form leaders on the topics of justice and servicespecially to the poor.

On the 18th, he returned to Rome. During that week he hdifferent meetings: with the Council, with MISEVI Interntional, and, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, he took part in t

Meeting of Superiors General, at which the topic was tSynod of Bishops. The participants shared their reflectioand the election of the new animation team of the SuperioGeneral was held. On the 22nd, he travelled to Naplestake part in the meeting of JMV Europe.


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Toward the beatification of a

group of Martyrs of the Vincen-

tian Family in SpainThe Vincentian Family is filled with joy be-cause, during this Year of Faith, the Beati-fication of our sisters and brothers, mar-tyrs of the Faith, will be celebrated. In theprocess, the causes of 103 members ofthe Vincentian Family of Spain, who weretortured at the time of the religious perse-cution between 1931 and 1939, were pre-sented. Of these postulations, the follow-ing have been concluded and these per-sons will be beatified on 27 October 2013:

Sister Josefa Martnez Prez and 12 companions (including a laywoman from the Association ofthe Daughters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal),

Sister Melchora Adoracin Corts Bueno and 14 companions, Father Fortunato Velasco Tobar and 14 companions.

For the following, the study of the Process of the Causes in Rome continues; it is not known whenthey can be beatified: Father Vicente Queralt Lloret and 20 companions among whom are two Daughters of Charity,

Sister Toribia Marticorena Sola and Sister Dorinda Sotelo Rodrguez, and seven lay Vincentians,six from the Association of Children of Mary of the Miraculous Medal of Cartagena and one fromValencia.

Jos Mara Fernndez Snchez and 38 companions, among whom are six laymen, fathers offamilies, belonging to the Association of the Knights of the Miraculous Medal from the BasilicaParish of Madrid.

The declaration of martyrdom of these Witnesses of the Faith is proposed as an example for our

way of Faith and an invitation to take them as intercessors. May they inspire us to be faithful on ourjourney giving reason and hope to what we believe.


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Some excerpts from the interventions of the confreres at the SynodMonsignor Markos Ghebremedhin, C.M. The Church needs to reaffirm the irreplaceble role of catechists in the Church, equipping them with resources in order that they beffective ministers of the New Evangelization. It must offer them the resources necessaso that they can support their families and, also, understand their role within the Church aa vocation. In this great moment of renewal in the proclamation and transmission of th

faith, a decision of this type would be of great support and help in the new evangelization to which thChurch is calling us.

Monsignor Cristoforo Palmieri, C.M. The harvest is not small and some of it is alread

ready, but to harvest it, we lack diligent and educated workers, capable of sacrifice, veclose to the people, and only through love and with love, be they local or a gift from othesister churches.

Monsignor Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. The lay ministers, thereformust not be conceived as an accessory or as some optional activities to lighten the woof the priest in the Small Christian Communities. They are an integral part of their life angrowth, and when the ministers diminish, the whole life of the community diminishes. Eperience has shown us sufficiently that religious associations centered only on prayer andevotion can turn into a type of exclusive spiritual club for holy members more faithful tthe meticulous details prescribed in the script written by its founder than to the demand

of Jesus in the Gospel.

Emmanuel Typamm, C.M. Consecrated persons in Africa and Madagascar are madaware and want to bring awareness to other apostolic agents (laymen, priests, bishopsthat reconciliation, justice, and peace, or, in other words, the justice and peace that leato reconciliation require dying, losing ones life, for the truth of the Gospel.

G. Gregory Gay, Superior General of the C.M. We evangelize by entering into thworld of the poor, and by growing in the virtues of humility, simplicity, charity, and justice. This is at the heart of our Vincentian heritage. The preferential option for the pois fundamental for new evangelization. In the experience of community, we make visble and credible the person of Jesus, promoting a civilization of love. In living out thesvirtues, we draw nearer to God, each other, and the poor, our lords and masters.

We invite you to read the talks, with more details, on the Vincentian Family website: http://famvin.org an

http://cmglobal.org
http://famvin.org/http://famvin.org/


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NecrologiumNomen Cond. Dies ob. Prov. Aet. Voc.

FINN William J. Sac 14/11/2012 Orl 92 71

SALWA Tadeusz Sac 22/11/2012 Pol 77 60

TOWEY Augustine D. Fra 22/11/2012 Orl 75 50

FUENTE MERINO Julin Sac 23/11/2012 Mat 84 68

MOOLAN Joseph Sac 23/11/2012 InS 78 57

LPEZ SNCHEZ Alberto Sac 27/11/2012 Sal 78 59

GRAZIATO Luigino Sac 28/11/2012 Tau 59 18

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have

recourse to you.

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