So far we have seen that in the Rule, Eugene specified that the main aim of the Missionaries was to preach the Gospel to the most abandoned. Then he began to list the secondary aims, starting with that of making up for the vacuum left in the Church by the disappearance of the religious orders. He continued with a third aim: Article 1. A no less important end of their Institute, an…
23/02/2012 Italy Last December, Lucia Borzaga, the sister of Father Mario, whose process for beatification is in motion, received notice from the Acilia district of Rome about some streets dedicated to Oblates. Father Angelo PELIS asked for confirmation of this from the appropriate office in the city of Rome. The person responsible for the committee that chooses names, Doctor De Pascalis, responded immediately. It should be noted that in Rome, street names…
As one must have noticed, we are actually bringing to a general knowledge, certain aspects of life of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, omi. We deem it necessary, however, to notify that the articles are not ours as we must have recognized it, but that of Fr. Frank Santucci, omi, specialist of the founder of the omis. We are just sharing these articles from his blog dedicated to the founder, Eugene…
The first article of the Constitution of any group is always the one which defines the purpose and juridical nature of the group. Eugene’s first paragraph does exactly this. The purpose of the Institute of the Missionaries of Provence Until 1826 we were known as the Missionaries of Provence, before changing the name to Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. is first of all to form a group of priests who live together…
One of those moves we have always solicited from Nigerian government is this last move of the Jonathan led government. It has been a long awaited development for the Nigeria, as the said giant of Africa to join the steps of the giants in establishing its embassy with the smallest but one of the most powerful, influential and important State of the World. It is a good move that should be encouraged…
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday addressed representatives of the episcopal conferences of Africa and Europe who have been meeting in Rome to participate in their Second Symposium on the theme “Evangelization today: communinon and pastoral collaboration between Africa and Europe”. The Pope welcomed the bishops and addressed a special greeting to Cardinal Peter Erdo, President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, and Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, President of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences…
Police in Kinshasa on Thursday used tear gas to block a march by Christian groups protesting alleged fraud in the November polls that returned President Joseph Kabila and his party to power. Groups of Christian faithful had been converging since dawn on the meeting point in front of Saint Joseph’s church in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital. But riot police dispersed the growing crowd before the start of the march, which…
This afternoon twenty-two Missionary oblates of Mary Immaculate and one laity were beatified in Madrid, Spain. The Superior General and many other members of the congregation were present while thousands of oblates were either in union of prayer or in contact through the modern means of communications (Facebook, Twitter and Live streams of the event). Even before the D-day, many oblates and friends were already in the mood of feast. There were…
On this very day, 17th December 2011, at the Cathedral of Madrid, Spain shall be beatified 22 missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who were killed during religious persecution in Spain. These twenty-two oblates, priests, scholastics and brothers were martyred alongside another lay catholic just because of their believe in Jesus-Christ. This honour has brought to our dear congregation more members in our heavenly community (to use the expression of the Founder, Saint…
One of the problem with a country where corruption has become a tradition is that those that are called to speak out are sometimes tired of speaking. They are sometimes so used to the situation of things that they do no longer take note of the urgency of the need of their people. This is the case of one of the nations where corruption, indiscipline, insecurity, smuggling, religious extremism, pirating, bombing, violence,…
