Evangelization
Redemptorist Missionaries in Astorga: Welcoming the pilgrims on their way to Santiago
Tradition tells that St. Francis of Assisi himself traveled the Jacobean Route and passed as another pilgrim through Astorga. When the Bishop learned of his passage, he sent legacies to invite him to return, to which San Francisco responded by accepting a foundation of his younger brothers – the Franciscans – in that city. From the Middle Ages, the convent of the friars will be a reference for the city and the Asturian diocese, especially for pilgrims, who receive the convent at their entrance to the city through the Puerta del Sol, neighbor...
read moreEuropean Provinces are present at the Conference of Africa and Madagascar Networking Meeting in Nairobi
The third Networking for Africa and Madagascar Networking Meeting took place on 29th and 30th July at the Roussel House Donum Dei Centre in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya. Eleven Major Superiors of Mother Provinces – six of them from Europe (from the provinces of Naples, London, Dublin, Lisbon, St. Clemens and France) – and twenty-three representatives from Africa-Madagascar units were present along with Fr. Michael Brehl, the Superior General and Fr. Nicolas Ayouba, the General Consultor, and the Coordinators from Africa and Madagascar and Europe....
read moreEuropean Redemptorist Mission Camp in the Mission of Albania
The European Redemptorist Missionary Camp officially started in the Albanian Mission on Sunday 7th of July. This volunteering mission experience will take place over two weeks starting from 7 to 21 July 2019. The interprovincial community of Albania, after the European Meeting of Redemptorists GRANADA 2018, decided to open its doors to the young people who participated in it, as part of the journey that the Redemptorist vocational youth ministry carries out throughout the European continent, even to the Conference level. In the European...
read moreCSsR around the world, a new project
What if a couple of Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer decided to visit Redemptorist communities around the world? What stories, initiatives and challenges would they find? These questions brought us here to this new project. After sharing ideas with other Redemptorist missionaries, we have decided to leave Porto, our hometown in Portugal, and dedicate at least one year of our lives to it. We want to be good listeners at the heart of the family and we want to learn our History in site; a History which is made of many vocational...
read moreRYVM Commission of the Conference of Europe held in Two Nations
The commission of the Redemptorist Youth Vocation Ministry (RYVM) of the Conference of Redemptorists of Europe (CRE) held a meeting on 19 and 20 February 2019. The purpose of the commission is to know, encourage and coordinate Vocational Youth Ministry on the continent in each of its units, as well as accompanying the preparation of the European youth meeting, which normally takes place every three years. This committee is made up of five members: Fr. Pawel Drobot as Coordinator (Province of Warsaw), Lay Redemptorist Brendan Dineen (Dublin...
read moreRenewal of vows in the Mission of Albania
The Albanian Mission witnessed a unique event where a Redemptorist missionary, for the first time, has renewed his vows in this country on 13th January 2019. The celebration took place on Sunday to commemorate the Baptism of the Lord, in the Parish of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori in Kamëz. Brother Álvaro Ortiz Jiménez de Cisneros is a theological student of the Province of Madrid, who has a year of pastoral experience in the interprovincial community of Albania. He is 27 years old and discovered his vocation when he was a university student...
read moreMeeting on the New Missionary Initiatives of the Conference of Europe
The working group for New Missionary Initiatives of the Conference of Europe met from Thursday, January 3rd until Saturday, January 5th, 2019 in Madrid. The community of Our Lady of Perpetual Help welcomed all the members: the coordinator Fr. Miguel Castro (Madrid), Fr. Charles Randall (London), Fr. Daniele Carta (Rome), Fr. Rastislav Dluhý (Bratislav-Prague) and the Lay Missionary of the Most Holy Redeemer José Oliveira (Lisbon). The starting point of all the work developed during the first two days was The Apostolic and Restructuring Plan...
read moreFirst popular mission – Christmas in Albania
The interprovincial Redemptorist community of Albania is celebrating its fifth Christmas. As is known, Albania lived through the atheist-communist dictatorship of Europe until 1991, which eliminated the religious sense of these dates. When the official atheism of the state was established, Christmas was called “New Year’s parties” and the Christmas tree became the New Year’s tree. Today, although there is religious freedom, the importance of the new year still remains in the minds of the people over the celebration of the Birth of Christ. In...
read moreMeeting of the working group “New Missionary Initiatives” of the Conference of Europe
The first meeting of the Secretariat for New Missionary Initiatives (NMI) was held in the afternoon of Sunday 4th November, soon after the meeting of the Secretariat for Evangelization of the Conference of Europe. The purpose of the meeting was something new for many of us. It was the first virtual meeting via video call, which helped us to share our expectations of this new task entrusted to us and to know more about each other in person and about the pastoral field. The group is composed of the Portuguese Lay Missionary José Silva Oliveira,...
read moreWorking group Partnership in Mission meets in Portugal
The Partnership in Mission (PIM) working group of the Secretariat for Evangelization of the CRE met for the first time from October 19 to 21 in Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto). The members of this working group are Mrs Susana Braguês (Portugal), Mr. Bohus Zivcak (Bratislava-Prague), Father Martin Leitgöb (Vienna-Munich) and Mr. Eric Corsius (St. Clement). In addition to these, Fr. Rui Santiago (provincial vicar of Portugal) and Fr. Johannes Römelt (coordinator CRE) attended a part of the meeting. The working group spoke about the themes and tasks...
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