What's New

The US Province recently published a report by Jack Kurps (US) on his recent visit to Brazil. He accompanied Tom Cassidy (CU) to meet with the Claudio Weber, provincial superior, and other members of the South Brazil Province regarding next August's planned Congregational Vocation Conference. In addition to this report an expanded version will appear in Horizon Magazine, a U.S. national vocation periodical. The article in English can be accessed here: August: Vocations Month in Brazil Reflections on a recent trip to South Brazil.

Many thanks to Jose Ornelas Carvalho (LU) for passing on news of events in Portugal. In his email message he wrote the following:

In the attached file you will find some news from the Portuguese Province. This is intended to be just my "fraternal" recognition of your work of sharing information with us, using new technologies. We should soon have Internet and Email here at home, at the Scholasticate, in Alfragide. Meanwhile my personal facility through the server of the University, accessible from home, can be a contact. I hope in the future our students can co-operate in translation and contacts for the Portuguese language

Editors Note: We very much appreciate receiving news of this kind as we feel it is of interest to the entire congregation. It is difficult to keep up with events taking place in 36 countries making it all the more important for individual scjs to take the time to pass on local information.

What's Happening

The North American provincial and regional councils met last week in Montréal. This was the first opportunity for the group to meet since the changes in local administrations, and the change in status of French Canada.

North European provincials met in Brussels to prepare for the November meeting of major superiors in Rome.

The British-Irish Province held it's annual fall meetings at Malpas last week. The first day was devoted to an All England Assembly (both Scotland and Ireland had held their gatherings earlier). The purpose of this assembly was described in the province bulletin as follows:

Each apostolate/community will be invited to give a short resume of their work and invite creative suggestions for the future, in this way moving towards a vision of our continuing presence in England. We will also be discussing our Promotions and realize that, because the office is based in England, this will have an impact elsewhere would could be taken up later in the Provincial Assembly.

A view of Malpas from the garden site of '98 BH Provincial Assembly

New Provincial Administration Argentina

Sup. Prov.: P. Attilio ZORZETTI (2° triennio)

1. Cons. Prov.: P. Rodolfo BONCI (zona Uruguay)

2. Cons. Prov.: P. Pietro ZOBBI (zona Córdoba)

3. Cons. Prov.: P. Ricardo PASCUALE (zona B. Aires-Maciel)

4. Cons. Prov.: P. Héctor Ramón GONZÁLEZ  (zona Chaco)

-- Their term of office begins on 23/10/1998

Editors Note: In Argentina each provincial counselor represents a geographic zone and is so indicated.

 

Please Remember

+ Fr. Antonius Theodorus Weterman  NE
born: 22 February 1905
first profession.:   08 September 1926
ordination.: 15 July 1932
died: 11 October  1998 at Nijmegen

During his long ministry, Fr. Wetermann worked in Indonesia, Argentina and Chile returning to Holland in 1971.

News from the Portuguese Province

A very busy summer

This was a very busy summer for the Portuguese Province. First of all, this was the year for many changes of personnel in our communities. The majority of the superiors changed, as well as many other confreres in different services. For those who know some of us, here is the list of the new superiors:

Porto Seminary Pe. Dehon P. Constantino S. Mota Continues

Porto Parish and Youth Pastoral P. Ferdinando F. Freitas New

Coimbra Seminary P. José Armando V. Silva New

Aveiro Noviciate P. João F. Nóbrega Continues

Lisboa Provincialate P. Manuel Quintas (provincial) Continues

Lisboa Loreto Italian Parish P. Giuseppe Rotta New

Lisboa Alfragide (Scholasticate) P. Isildo G. Silva New

Lisboa Carnaxide (Parish) P. António Augusto T. Sousa New

Lisboa Forte da Casa (Parish) P. José Gil Ormonde New

Algarve Vila Real (Parish) P. Miguel Moreira da Costa New

Madeira Colégio Missionário (Seminary) P. David Q. Vieira New

Madeira Colégio Infante (College) P. Manuel N. Chícharo New

Madeira Ribeira Brava (Parish) P. Feliz V. Pires Continues

Azores Ponta Delgada (Paris-Retreat House) P. Agostinho Pinto Continues

In order to program and co-ordinate the activities of the coming academic and pastoral year, all superiors gathered together with the Provincial and his Council, in Alfragide, on October, 5.

Ordinations

This summer we had the ordination of three new priests and a deacon:

Lisbon, 5 July:

• P. Rafael Diogo Sousa
• P. Ricardo José Lemos Basílio
• Dc. Carlos Manuel F.Gonçalves

Madeira, 5 September: P. José Alcindo Sousa

Mission Departures

At the end of the summer, some confreres left for Madagascar and Mozambique:

To Madagascar:

P. Armando Baptista da Silva, who already has some knowledge of the local language and culture since he worked there as student for two years.

Students João Nélio Simões Pereira and Paulo Jorge Moreira Coelho, from the community of Alfragide, will spend there two years of pastoral experience before continuing their studies.

P. José Alcindo Sousa, recently ordained, will also leave next week for Madagascar, and P. Manuel Alberto Carvalho Vicente, who is finishing his doctorate in Paris is also expect there by early next year.

To Mozambique:

To maintain an old tradition of our Province, founded in connection with the SCJ mission in Mozambique, then a Portuguese colony, and in co-operation with the new erected Mozambican Province, two of our students from the community of Alfragide, Nélio Luciano Baptista Vieira and Roberto Viana Soares, began their pastoral experience in Mozambique. After several months of culture orientation, they will work in the school at Gurúe.

Novices from Mozambique

The co-operation with the Mozambican Province has gained momentum with the arrival of three postulants who are beginning the novitiate at Aviero along with five Portuguese colleagues. P. Domenico Marcatto (MZ) will be with them at Aviero during the initial stages of the novitiate.

Jose Ornelas Carvalho

ornelas@ft.ucp.pt

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