1. St. Vincent Pallotti at Vatican

We wish to inform you with much joy that Fr. Gilberto Orsolin, General Consultor and Rector of the Generalate House, accompanying Msgr. José Moreira da Silva, Bishop of Januária, Brazil, during the ad limina visit, presented to the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, the most recent book on our Founder, titled "Vincent Pallotti, Prophet of the Spirituality of Communion", edited by Fr. Francesco Todisco. Thus our Founder has entered the Vatican once again, as he did so often with great respect to the successors of St. Peter during his earthly life.

Friday, 25 June 2010 | 5191 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

2. Sanctuary of St. Vincent Pallotti, Ribeirão Claro, Brazil

On 6 December 2009, the Bishop of the diocese of Jacarezinho (Brazil), Msgr. Fernando Penteado, elevated the chapel of the parish community of Ribeirão Claro into a sanctuary of St. Vincent Pallotti. For the whole month of November, the parish organised an intense programme of spiritual and catechetical preparation. This preparation was concluded with the popular mission organised and realised by a group of Pallottines in Curitiba. The solemn Mass was preceded by a procession. Numerous faithful from the city of Ribeirão Claro and from the neighbouring cities, Pallottines and diocesan priests participated in it. Besides the importance of this sanctuary for the city itself, it has become a place of pilgrimage, very much known in the northern part of Paraná. At the moment it is also included into the “Spiritual Journey with the Rosary" (www.rotadorosario.com.br), which is a project of spiritual pilgrimage and tourism conducted by the diocese, approved by the National Episcopal Conference of Brazil and the civil government. As the Pallottine charism is characterised by the ministry of all the baptised, we hope that the sanctuary of St. Vincent Pallotti in Ribeirão Claro may become a centre for spreading the joy of being missionary disciples of Jesus Christ. Let us hope that the motto “to revive faith and re-enkindle charity” will contribute to the formation of a mature and co-responsible laity in the work of evangelisation in service of God’s Kingdom.

Thursday, 24 December 2009 | 5874 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

3. Second annual course for Formation

On October 4th, at the Pallottine international centre for Formation, 'the Cenacle', in Via Giuseppe Ferrari, Rome, the second annual course for Formation commenced for 18 members of the three Institutes of Pallottine foundation with a week of integration work. In these first days, the objectives of the course and the importance of this time of special Formation for personal spiritual and community growth were explained, with a view to a true renewal of consecrated life in the Pallottine family. On October 7th in the Church of San Salvatore in Onda, Mass was celebrated for the official opening of the course at the altar of St Vincent Pallotti. The Mass was led by the Rector General, Fr Jacob Nampudakam, who encouraged the participants of the three core communities - coming from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe - to participate fully in Pallottine activities. The team responsible for the course are Sr Ignes Burin CSAC, Fr Francois Harelimana SAC, Fr Matthew Augustine Thonickal (NA), Sr Josephine D'Souza SAC and Sr Maria Landsberger SAC (pro tem).

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4. Second annual meeting of the Pallotti Institute - May 2011

On May 12, 2011, the second annual meeting was organized by the Pallotti Institute in Rome. It took place in the church of San Salvatore in Onda. For the year 2011, as planned, there a series of lectures on "Reviving of faith." Under this theme Pier Giorgio Liverani, journalist of "Avvenire", presented a talk on the theme, "Reviving the faith in the journey of the Christian today". The speaker said that from the perspective of faith during the times in which Vincent Pallotti lived and worked, it did not have worse and great challenges than that of today. The age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and occupation of Italy and Rome had oppressed and influenced the faith. For St. Vincent Pallotti this was the context of constant concern and worry. He took upon himself the apostolic commitment to revive the faith. There were many suggestions that Pallotti proposed to the believers of his time. His proposal was to propagate the faith by word and deed, to join in the Catholic Apostolate to bring about the revival of faith, to renew the Christian Faith and to spread the truth of the Gospel throughout the world. In light of these indications of Pallotti, we can raise the following question: "How can we rekindle the Christian faith today?" In response to this question, the speaker first mentioned a few tools that exist in the church today: that is, the teaching of the Church, the pastoral documents of the local churches and the convening of the Synod of Bishops, which will be held in 2012, on "The new evangelization for the transmission of Christian faith "and in particular, he mentioned about the establishment of the Pontifical Council by Pope Benedict XVI to Promote the New Evangelization. Continuing his reflection the speaker described the scenario today which very much needs to be enlightened by faith, culture, in the social sphere, media, economics, science and politics. One should now make great efforts to be always open to the great challenges of our time and to enter into these realms, that is, to speak and to bear witness to the faith. The laity has a very special task in this field; lay Christians are aware of their role, as laity and of their role in the Apostolic Church. This was what St. Vincent Pallotti always dreamed and endeavored, when he encouraged all Christians to live consciously to their apostolic vocation in the Church according to their state and condition of life.

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5. Second Asia - Oceania Intercontinental Meeting

The Second Asia - Oceania Intercontinental Meeting, marked by its great diversity of cultures, was held at Pallotti College, Milgrove, Australia from 21-25 April 2009. It was held in two parts: the first three days were dedicated to the UAC and the rest were allotted to the SAC. The UAC meeting was attended by the Major Superiors or their Delegates from the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Congregation of the Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate, the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate, the Secular Institutes of Mariana Community and the Khristevikas and two lay members of the UAC in Australia. Fr. Zenon Hanas and Fr. Jacob Nampudakam represented the SAC General Council. The central point of both the meeting was collaboration among the entities of the Pallottine family of this grouping in apostolate, mission and formation. A number of concrete suggestions were made for future implementation. The unique achievement of this meeting was the new approach to the Continental Meeting where the first part is held in the ambit of the UAC and the second part is dedicated to the SAC. The next meeting is scheduled for 2011, to be held in the Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, India.

Thursday, 30 April 2009 | 4792 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

6. Second formation meeting of the Brothers of the SAC

The second formation meeting of the Brothers of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate was held from 25-31 July 2009 at the International Centre for Pallottine Formation, with the participation of 23 Brothers coming from all over the world. The meeting was organized by the General Secretariat for Formation and had the principal scope of giving a new impetus to the vocation and mission of Brothers in our Society and the Union of Catholic Apostolate today. This year, the focus was on the formation of Brothers. As always, this formation meeting too included inputs on Pallottine themes related to the vocation, mission and formation of the Brothers, sharing of their apostolic activities, visits to the Pallottine places in Rome, sharing, prayer, Eucharistic celebration and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Numerous concrete proposals were also made at the end of the meeting like the publication of the literature related to Brothers, conducting further formation sessions for Brothers at the Provincial/Regional levels, preparation of a complete formation programme for Brothers as part of the Ratio Institutionis SAC, and encouraging the Indian Pallottine entities to take steps to promote the vocation to Brotherhood. The vocation and mission of the Brothers today will be also a theme for reflection in the forthcoming General Assembly 2010. PHOTOS

Monday, 14 September 2009 | 4884 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

7. General Secretariat for Formation

The General Council has appointed the members of the General Secretariat for Formation for three years, starting from 31 March 2008: Fr. Jacob Nampudakam, General Secretary, Fr. Jeremiah Murphy (IR), Fr. Stanislaw Stawicki (SF), Fr. Valdeci Antonio de Almeida (SP), Fr. Thomas Lemp (FB), Fr. Mariusz Małkiewicz (WA) and Fr. Romuald Uzubumwana (SF).

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8. General Secretariat for Formation

From 25 to 29 May 2009, the annual meeting of the Secretariat for Formation took place at the Spirituality Centre San Vincenzo Pallotti at Grottaferrata, with the participation of the 8 members of this Secretariat. Main themes were: the various formation summer meetings in Rome, several appendices to SAC Ratio Istitutionis like, for example, discernment criteria for the various formation stages, an ongoing formation project for the first years after perpetual consecration, a formation programme for Brothers within SAC and planning for one year formation for pallottine formators at the Cenacle in Rome. The members of the Secretariat met with candidates for our Society and the novice for the Pallottine Sisters and formators of the International Introductory Period, and made an evaluation of their first month. During the last day they met with the Rector General and discussed the various formation initiatives planned for next months by the Secretariat for Formation.

Thursday, 11 June 2009 | 5352 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

9. General Secretariat for the Missions - March 2011

The annual meeting of the Council of the General Secretariat for the Missions took place in Rome from 1 to 3 March 2011. The main part of the meeting was dedicated to elaborating the principal points of our missionary methodology. The impulse for such a reflection was a letter which the Rector General Fr. Jacob Nampudakam had addressed to the members of the Secretariat. The principal questions taken into consideration were: missionary promotion in our communities, Pallottine Missionary Sunday, the decisions of the last General Assembly regarding the missions, economic subsidies for missionaries and students, requests for scholarships. The Secretariat also decided that Pallottine Missionary Sunday of 2011 would be dedicated to the South Korean mission, prepared the programme for the formation meeting for young missionaries which will take place in July in Rome, and established that the next Missionary Congress will take place in Rwanda/Congo in the month of October 2012. The next meeting of the Council of the Secretariat La prossima riunione del Consiglio del Segretariato will be held in Rome from 28 February to 1 March 2012.

Thursday, 07 April 2011 | 3086 hits | Print | PDF |  Email

10. General Secretariate for Formation - Conferences

We wish to inform you that the conferences given during the meeting of those engaged in the apostolate of education in the Pallottine schools, held in Rome from 21-30 August 2007, can be found on our website: www.pallotti-sac.org/schools2007 and the conferences presented during the meeting of Pallottine formators held at Grottaferrata, from 3-12 September 2007, can be found on our website: www.pallotti-sac.org/formators2007. We invite you to use these resource materials for further reflections and study in these two areas of our apostolate.

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 | 4893 hits | Print | PDF |  Email