October Edition of Congregation of the Mission Newsletter Online

The September 2007 issue of the Monthly News Bulletin of the Congregation of the mission contains information about the Congregation of the Mission in Rome and around the world. Of particular interest to visitors of famvin.org is the section about the Vincentian Family and Fr. Manuel Ginete’s visits to the wider family around the world.

“In recent months, Father Manuel Ginete, Delegate of the Superior General for the Vincentian Family, visited various countries. In the beginning of May, he gave a conference at the Meeting of the Vincentian Family in San Francisco, California, USA, with the theme: “Expanding the Circle of Solidarity.” At the Visitors’ Meeting in Mexico, this past June, he presented a report on the Office for the Vincentian Family in Rome (from 2005 to the present), emphasizing the priority objectives and activities for the next five years.

This past June he participated in and spoke at the Meeting of the SSVP in Nagoya, Japan and give conferences at other meetings of the Vincentian Family in Osaka, Kobe and Wakayama, while visiting the members of AIC, SSVP, DC and CM. From Japan he went to Korea, where he met with various groups, such as the SSVP, Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, and Sisters of Charity of Suwon. He tried to encourage them to translate the basic documents of the Vincentian Family and to be more connected with the movement throughout the world. At the conclusion of his Asian trip, he was in Vietnam. Some of the enthusiastic members of the AIC, Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Marian Youth and missionaries of the Region of Vietnam brought him up-to-date on their various commitments in favor of the poor. In turn, he updated the vision of the situation of the Vincentian Family in the world.

In September, he accompanied the Superior General to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Ladies of Charity-AIC USA in Saint Louis, Missouri and gave a conference to the missionaries of the Province of New England on the situation of the Vincentian Family and the challenges that it faces. In New York, he visited the confreres of Saint John’s University and the Vincentian Center for Church and Society. He also spoke with Father Joseph Foley, the representative of the CM at the UN, and with Father John Freund, webmaster of the Website of the Vincentian Family.