AUGUST 2017: The grace of continuous sharing of personnel and financial resources among the units of the SMA for the good of mission.
In our communities, disseminated over four continents, we pray daily for the canonization of our Founder. The prayer ends with a request for grace. In addition to the specific intentions that each person or community can express, all of us can unite to ask for a common grace. Our sincere and selfless prayer can lead us to the miracle necessary for his beatification.
How does it work? At the point where the prayer says: "... By his intercession we will receive the graces of which we have need. In particular..." we will add the proposed intention, by saying it aloud. Up there is for this month.
Christians - Muslims dialogue
Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in the light of Nostra Aetate, is the topic that is ging to be discussed in this article. Nostra Aetate is one of the sixteen Vatican II documents . It is part of documents otherwise known as declaration.
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To Ars on pilgrimage
On 13 July 2017 we went over to Ars on pilgrimage. The bus left from cours Gambetta at 8:30 in the morning. During our journey towards Ars we prayed our morning praying using the Psalm 80.
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Life is an eternal journey
As pilgrims we started our journey by bus towards Le Puy-en-Velay on 8th Saturday morning. We had the Holy Mass in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Puy, along with the pilgrims of Saint James the Compostela. It was presided by Father Pierre Richaud, the superior of the house in cours Gambetta. In the homily he mentioned that Mary’s “yes” to God not only changed her life but the lives of all believers of the generations to come. He comes from the diocese of Puy which had given many vocations to the SMA.
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Meeting of SMAs of 20 to 40 years of Missionary priesthood
Our first meeting began with the lighting of the Pascal Candle by Father Antonio Porcellato on 3rd July on the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle. He welcomed each and every one of us. Father Pierre Richaud, the house superior of 150 cours Gambetta gave us the history and the tradition of the Mother House in Lyon.
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"There are many others things that Jesus did..."
“There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written” (Jn 21 : 25).
Letter of Support for the Cause of the Servant of God Monsignor Melchior de Marion Brésillac
May I crave your indulgence to write in support of the Cause of the Servant of God, Monsignor Melchior de Marion Brésillac, for his Canonization.
One of the greatest Missionaries I encountered in my minor seminary Church History studies and whose life impressed me most was Monsignor Marion Brésillac. His name was a household word among the seminarians.
He was reputed to be a very holy man, a great missionary, an extremely prayerful person who married his personal Christian convictions, especially about the missions, with what the Church's direction was.
In him the famous eternal words of Christ were vividly exemplified, "By their fruits you will know them," (Matthew 7:16) and "A good tree bears good fruits." (Matthew 7:17)
SMA Founder Bsp. Melchior Marion de Brésillac
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