News Bulletin from the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission

Julio Suescun Olcoz, CM.

In Memoriam
On 10 June, our dear confrere, Julio Suescun Olcoz, returned to the House of the Father. He was born in Larraga (Navarre) on 7 May 1935. He joined the Congregation on 22 September 1951, in Limpias, where he made the Internal Seminary. He worked in various ministries and services. Among these were Sub-Director of the Internal Seminary, Director of Students and Philosophy Professor, Visitor, Editor of the Vincentian Familys websites in Spain and the Spanish versions of the websites of the Congregation of the Mission and the International Vincentian Family. He was Executive Secretary of SIEV for seven years. After four years in the General Curia (2007-2011) as Director of Communications (Vincentiana, Nuntia, websites, etc.), he returned to the Province of Saragossa, where, surrounded by the affection of his family and the prayer and gratitude of the whole Congregation of the Mission, he died in the peace of the Lord. Thank you, Father Julio, for your dedication and fidelity to the Congregation of the Mission and the whole Vincentian Family.

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The Superior General

On 3 June, he had a virtual conference with the International Council of the Vincentian Marian Youth Association. That same day, in the evening, he met with the Councils of the different provinces of the Daughters of Charity of Italy. From 4-8 June, together with all the Assistants General, he held the third Tempo Forte of the year. On the 7th, he welcomed a delegation from the Cardinal Alberoni Foundation. It is entrusted to the Congregation and is in charge of the Alberoni College, which is a Seminary that receives young Vincentians from the different provinces of Italy and is located in Piacenza, in the north of Italy. During the visit, the affiliation to the Congregation of the Mission of the President of this foundation, Mrs. Anna Braghieri, became official.

On Sunday, the 10th, together with John Maher, he took part in a meeting and the Eucharist with the Community in Dialog, at which five members of this community were affiliated to the Congregation of the Mission. In the evening of the same day, he participated in the graduation ceremony of the students of St. John Universitys Roman Campus. On Monday, the 11th, he had an ordinary meeting of the General Council. On the 12th, he travelled to Benin to study the possibility of opening a mission of the Congregation there in conjunction with the Sisters of the Miraculous Medal. Then he went to Equatorial Guinea to visit the Daughters of Charity of the Province of Gijon, Spain. On the 26th, he returned Rome. That same day he had a Mass with the Daughters of Charity of Casa Santa Luisa in Rome. It will be the new Provincial House of the unified Province of Turin, Siena, and Rome.
Broer Huitema
Superior General Fraters CMM

On the morning of the 27th he had Council meeting and in the afternoon he left for Lebanon to take part in the meeting of the Formation Commission of Vincentian Leaders.

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During the month we have had several visitors in the Curia. Among them were the Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and our confrere, Rolando Santos, Bishop of Alotau-Sideia in Papua New Guinea; some relatives of Javier and Flix lvarez; and the confreres of the Commission for the Revision of the Ratio Formationis.

The Activities of Stanislav Zontak

After Easter this year, Father Zontak, Assistant General, went to the Region of Cameroon (Province of Paris) for the canonical visitation. This visit began on 2 May and concluded on the 31st of the same month. The beginnings of the Region of Cameroon go back to 1980 when the French confreres (Paul Limousin and Pierre Hahn) came to Nsimalen, a parish entrusted to the Archbishop of Yaound. The confreres, in addition to the pastoral works in the parish, collaborated in the formation of the diocesan clergy, as well as the beginning of the formation of our own. In 2003 the Provincial Council of Paris made an important decision: In view of raising the mission to a Region, it opened three canonical houses (Bua, Yaound (Nkolafm), and Nsimalen). On 29 June 2004, with the consent of the Superior General, the Region was erected and Emmanuel Typamm was named Regional Superior. At present, the Region has five juridically constituted houses (four in Cameroon and one in the Central African Republic). There are 38 incorporated confreres: 33 priests, three brothers, a deacon, and an incorporated student. The Region has seven students in theology, 13 in philosophy, and five in the preparatory year. The average age of the provinces members is 41 years. The confreres work in three African countries: 28 in Cameroon, three in the Central African Republic, and one in Chad; and two European countries: five in France and one in Greece.The pastoral work is varied: parishes, the sick, prisons, education, lay formation, and with the Vincentian Family present in the area: Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Charity of Saint Jeanne Antide, Association of the Miraculous Medal, Vincentian Marian Youth, and the International Association of Charities. The Assistant General noted that the confreres love the Congregation and work with great fervor. They have good relations with the people and are particularly sensitive to the needy and the poor. We pray that the confreres of the Region of Cameroon continue always to be open to the cry of the poor and of the Church and that this Region continues growing in fidelity to our charism.

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The Commission for the Revision of the Ratio Formationis

From 25-29 June, the Commission for the Revision of the Ratio Formationis met for its third session. The members of this Commission are: Orlando Escobar (Colombia), Dominique Iyolo (Congo), Gerard Luttenberger (USA-East), Jn Martinek (Vice-Province of Saints Cyril and Methodius - Slovakia), Robert Petkovek (Slovenia), and Joy Thuruthel (South India). The major work of this session was the review of the second drafts of the documents each member had prepared. After doing the reviews and determining what must be done for a final draft, the Commission agreed on a schedule for accomplishing the next stages of its work. It will send its final draft to the General Council for its comments during the September Tempo Forte meeting and then to the Visitors Meeting, which will be held in July 2013, to receive its contributions too. We congratulate the Commission that has endeavored to carry out a good work.

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Nominationes / Confirmationes
ESCOBAR RUIZ Jos Orlando 27/06/2012 Visitor Colombia

Ordinationes
SOUSA DA SILVA Anderson Clay NDUNGURU Simon POHAR Borut Sac Sac Sac For InM Sln 31/05/2012 19/06/2012 29/12/2012

Necrologium

Nomen AGUSTN BENITO Mximo SUESCUN OLCOZ Julio BARAN Stanisaw KALLARACKAL Jose D. PRINDEZIS Jean MORA DAZA Ramn

Cond. Sac Sac Sac Sac Fra Sac

Dies ob. 02/06/2012 10/06/2012 12/06/2012 14/06/2012 15/06/2012 28/06/2012

Prov. Cae Cae Pol InS Par Col

Aet. 84 77 69 70 69 89

Voc. 67 60 44 51 53 70