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Friday, 18 May 2007
NORTH AMERICA’S THIRD REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 252/06

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay
to show that this all-surpassing power
is from God and not from us.” (2 Cor. 4,7)

Dearest Missionaries,

Your Region is going through a difficult time. Your history is marked by events which have troubled the presence of the Institute in the States and in Canada, due to the social developments which have taken place there: the new challenges found at this time, your feeling impotence and littleness in facing so many changes. You find yourselves in the process of managing and living moments of great dismay. We are also aware of the pain brought on you by long illness and eventual death of our beloved Fr. Crespi. The Conference was carried out in an atmosphere of great brotherhood and with a desire of reflecting and be challenged by the internal and external reality, even though, due to various practical reasons, you have not accomplished the realization of a complete document.

With this letter we wish to remember some criteria and founding values to which you will refer to in your journey, so that you may not loose the horizon, but continuing to hope, reacting with joy and faithfulness, you may achieve the realization of what had been written in the document attached to the Acts of the II Conference and all that may be carried out as our mission.
1. Faithfulness to the Charisma: our service to the local Church is and continues to be that of going to the nations, being sign and instrument of missionary life. A life long service, expression of continuity in time and totality in self giving. Our missionary status is made manifest in these two countries. We are not here as in between brackets or just waiting, but as “sent” to contribute to the making of the whole Church missionary. Our horizon, our priority goes to MAV, becoming voice of the people and of the needs of humanity.

The missionary mandate requires from us a great effort of incarnation and enculturation so that we may not remain foreigners to society and Church. From this conviction emerges a new requirement: it is not enough to “narrate the mission”, what is needed is to proclaim it with our own life. It is not enough to be teacher, we must become witnesses of missionary life.
2. Modality of our presence: we are called to choose and offer a qualified and coherent style, that is, to live:
a. the mission in powerlessness: founded on a renewed awareness of the centrality of the Word, on opening up to the frontier like Jesus who has turned the way of the cross to be his life. A weakness which, if accepted and lived close to the people witnessing justice and peace, leads to a true proclamation of the Lord.

b. the mission in poverty by making a courageous choice of the poor and a concrete closeness to them, reevaluating our activities and structures.

c. the mission in martyrdom, because of a serious and coherent way of being and doing, and a charity which becomes sharing and giving our own life.
3. Unity of intentions: our missionary service must be “inside” the journey of the Church, in order to offer our specific contribution of missionary proclamation, in keeping with the Tradition of our Institute. First of all: to live and work in communion, which entails to operate in “unity of intents”, giving witness; commit ourselves to making all our communities, Missionary Centers, and Parishes open to mission “ad gentes”; cooperate brotherly with all other agencies, without taking up services on a personal basis.

We wish to you all a good journey on this road of the mission in challenging environments and pregnant of promises for the future as it is your case. May this “provocation” help you take control again of our presence, be “grace” for your mission, celebration of what has been done and support for what, in the Conference, you have planned to achieve.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquileo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General




ARGENTINA’S EIGHTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 253/06

Dearest Confreres,

With gratitude and joy we approve the Acts of the VIII Regional Conference. It’s a moment of grace for your Region and for the Institute. It helps you discern your consecration for the mission and God’s presence in history, despite many difficulties.

We thank you for the work done and we accompany you in the journey you are making. It is important that you continue carrying out your mission “ad gentes” in the Argentinean context, as you have expressed in the Acts of the Conference. We propose to you to keep in mind the following points:
1. Reality, incarnation, discernment and evangelization. The analysis of the reality of your country is well done and it brings forth the great challenges you will have to face as Consolata Missionaries. The day by day reality, our work, our history, and especially the life of the poor, are places for self questioning and encounter with the Lord (GS, 1,4). Revelation confirms that they are also testing places. That is why it is an integral part of our missionary work to analyze reality in its most important aspects. We invite you to continuously read reality and history, past and present, as to give an adequate response to the needs of the people and God’s call.

2. To live both the mission “ad extra” and “ad intra” with its own implications:
a. Proclamation “ad extra”. Quest for creativity and the widening of our missionary outlook and heart, in order to “come out” and serve the great needs of humanity: justice, peace, ecology, human rights.

b. Proclamation “ad intra”. To be witnesses of the love of God within our communities. To enhance the esteem of persons, their gifts, personal and communitarian riches. Interculturality is a reality that urges us towards new frontiers and to deeply acknowledge the richness of our missionary family.

c. To improve our mutual relationship and communion: the various areas in which we daily carry out our work of evangelization need better coordination and cooperation within our own communities, both at local and continental level.

d. To be attentive to and promote the lay ministries and those brought about by the Spirit. Among the many challenges found in the life of communities, the Lord gives to people and communities various lay ministries and gifts to respond to such situations. It is our duty and task to help their preparation and support them. (Mc 10,43-45)

e. To work for the future and assure continuity to our mission as Consolata Missionaries. Vocation is God’s gift, though He wants also our cooperation: He is God with us. Do not fear to propose the missionary ideal to the young and welcome them into our houses.
3. The presence of the Regional Superior in the communities: it is of fundamental importance for the Superior to visit them periodically, accompanying them, assessing their various projects (PPV/PCV) and pastoral programs, to carry out the mandates of the Conference.

4. To elaborate the PCV and that of the mission in the various communities. To elaborate, sustain and evaluate the different projects is fundamentally important in order to accomplish the various conclusions reached at the Conference. In this process the presence and assistance of the Regional Government is also very important.

The VIII Conference has often dealt with these topics, some people may get discouraged, others may become pessimistic or be tempted to pay no attention. Inspired by the Gospel of Luke and the Letter of Saint Peter we urge you to look up on high (cf. Lk 5,4) and constantly give the reason for our hope (1 Peter 3,15), personally and community wise.

Our vocation and mission enable us to look ahead without fear, trusting in God’s continuous presence in our life.

The Virgin Consolata and our Father Founder may enlighten and protect us in the journey we start every day in order to carry out our mission.
Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General




BRAZIL’S TENTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 254/06

Dearest Missionaries of the Region of Brazil,

While approving the Acts of the X Regional Conference, we wish also to brotherly thank you for the good work you have done. Community reflection and programming constitute opportunities for brotherhood and research in order to better qualify our charisma as Missionaries within the Brazilian Church. Mission is our life, it nourishes our journey, our choices and calls for the courage to be ready to risk. In this journey we are enlightened and fortified by the Spirit.

It is in the spirit of sharing together that we present to you some thoughts and reflections for the next six years. Among them, the carrying out of a program of restructuring.
Creative fidelity to mission: Brazil is a country with a prevalent catholic population, despite the growing presence of other religious movements. There is a great involvement and participation, but underneath it all there is also the temptation of closing in within ourselves and of stopping. The present world wide crisis of values which is also affecting the Brazilian society. This is the reason why we think it is important to establish an open dialogue with all those agencies which work for the achievement of a more just society, for the enculturation of the Gospel and a mission understood as ministerial commitment to serve and go overseas.

The missionary dimension of our institutions.
Openness to the youth: to evangelize is the proper vocation of the Church and it constitutes its most profound identity. The Church is always aiming at evangelization (EN 14) with a commitment which affects the whole community and all communities (RM 27). Inspired by this spirit, we invite all missionaries to be involved in working with the youth and, helped by the Regional CAM, to open up our communities for the realization of a true pastoral, vocational and missionary activity aimed at young people.

To take on with courage today missionary challenges: we are called to build a true missionary spirituality, “of consolation”, which is made evident in being close to the people, readiness in listening to them and make our own their problems, hopes and utopias. Let’s not be afraid to share the daily life of the people. Let’s cooperate towards the building up of a more just world, commitment to human rights, ecology, etc.

Restructuring and re-qualification: the aim is to become more meaningful presences. In this we are helped by the dynamics of contemplating (the reality), discerning (in the light of the Word) and carrying out (throughout our life). Let’s consider the experience of the CEBs and make it our own their pastoral method in carrying out our ministry of service to those communities entrusted to us. The small Christian communities, “are a sign of the vitality of the Church, instrument of formation and evangelization, a starting point towards a new society founded on the civilization brought about by love” (RM 51). These communities are school of faith, places of brotherhood and solidarity, credible alternative to a society based on egoism.

To live with enthusiasm our missionary charisma: to think and develop with a missionary dimension our pastoral activities, our spirituality, our formation and animation in order to renew our communion with and belonging to our Institute in every aspect of our work and life.

We entrust the Region of Brazil and all of you to the Virgin Aparecida: her intercession may render you true disciples of her Son so that you may be ever more credible witnesses of his Gospel among the brethren.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General




CONGO’S SIXTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 255/06
“Hand on what you have received” (1Cor. 15,3)

Dearest confreres,

Be missionaries having your “lamps trimmed” (Mt. 25,1-13), to seize the opportunity coming your way and not waist it; go on being a sign of consolation, even though you avail yourselves of humble and poor means, as true laborers of the Gospel.

This conference has a “historical” breath of grace and gift. After much separation you were able to celebrate it all together. The total participation of all the members of the Region is in itself an evident sign, regardless of what has been said and the choices made. Thank the Lord and bless his name with your life and mission.

We share with you some aspects which deserve attention and discernment.

 1. The Acts make evident a big desire for organization. The difficulties in communicating, the great distances, the challenges which every presence entails, justify and confirm such aspiration. But be careful not to loose the “spirit” of what you want to live and the project to be realized. It is “the spirit of…” which qualify us and set us on the move. It is communion among yourselves which give reason to your mission; it is your effort at being witnesses and evangelizers “ad gentes, ad extra, ad pauperes” which characterizes you as Consolata missionaries.

 2. The Acts of the Conference deal at length with the economy of communion. They refer to a “directory” of economical life rater than to an inspiration. The economical difficulty is real and the concern for an appropriate organization is more than legitimate. Certainly, conformity to the rules of life gives stability and firmness to the missionary project. To be able to make use of the financial resources for the good of the mission, in keeping with the evangelical values, is a fundamental concern which affects your identity and the witness you wish to give. We appreciate and encourage the effort made in order to give guide lines and precise norms so that the management of finances be linked to the mission and qualify it. Besides, we invite you to also put forward, at all levels, a reflection on these topics and their practical implications. In this journey, the way of acting with transparence and providing information is a must for a proper management and sharing of the goods.

 3. We wish also to invite you in a brotherly manner to consider the restructuring of your missionary project as a valuable choice and a realistic preparation for the future. The situation of the country, uncertain and precarious, the reduced number of missionaries, the many daily difficulties, should bring you to a “healthy realism”. Not to align yourselves on the side of pessimism, but to give fresh impetus to your missionary journey, to set out with greater commitment, to renew your enthusiasm, to pass from “doing” mission to “being” mission.

By considering the history and geography of our presences, we think that they are to be “thought over again”, reoriented, so as not to excessively scatter and exhaust our forces. In practice and fraternally we think that the community of the Procure of Isiro is to b studied over again, we see few missionaries for many, too many activities. So also is the case of the community of Mbengu which remains a challenge too big for your mission.

Let yourselves be questioned by the challenges, but be bold with realism and with the means made available to you by Devine Providence.

 4. One final aspect which we wish to underline is formation. First of all receive our sincere thanks for the commitment you bring into the formation of young people for the future of all our missionary family. The Lord is blessing us in the many young people who knock at our door. We thank him also on behalf of all of you who believe in it. And we urge you to pay much attention to the vocational discernment and follow up. This is big contribution to the future of our family and of the Church, and even more it is a sign of honesty and respect towards the young people entrusted to us. The time and serious commitment in this field qualify and give meaning to your vocational and formative commitment.

Dearest confreres,

“Be courageous and go on in the Lord!” It is with these words so dear to the Founder that we approve the Acts of your Regional Conference and we urge you on towards the future, to move ahead with the certainty that your “strength” is in the presence of the Lord who consoles us in order that we may console others. May the Virgin Consolata and the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, our annual protector, accompany your missionary life.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General



ETHIOPIA’S FIFTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 256/06
“Let us not grow tired of doing good,
for in due time we shall reap
a good harvest” (Gal. 6,9)

Dearest confreres of the Region of Ethiopia,

It is with both joy and trepidation that we come to you with this letter.

Joy for the great missionary work which, for many years, with courage and constancy you carry out among innumerable difficulties. Certainly your mission is not easy and it requires a big interior force. Joy in considering the witnesses who have journeyed in this land so beautiful and dear to our Founder. Joy in seeing with what determination you carry out programs and development projects which will benefit the most poor and needy. The Ethiopian Region has always had a clear understanding of this preferential choice for help and human promotion. Still joy, for accepting the community of Djibouti as an integral part of your missionary project, an incentive and challenge for you and all the other Regions of the African Continent on the topic of inter-religious dialogue.

But also trepidation for the future. Let us reflect with you on your missionary life and share some concerns in our quest of what is best for your being and doing.

 1. The person of the missionary and community life. Your many activities, your commitments in human promotion projects, they keep you busy for most of the time. Because of this it is perceived in the missionary personal tiredness, fatigue in community life and in the task of evangelization. Therefore it is indispensable a clear discernment to find concrete ways for an authentic revitalization in the dimension of being and doing, feeling and thinking, living together and communicating.

 2. Missionary activities. The Acts of the Conference make evident the difficulty in realizing a missionary project, balanced in all its dimensions: personal, community wise, apostolic. There are but few concrete proposals of communitarian choices. MAV is a priority, but it is necessary to promote our commitment of vocational animation for our family and the local Church so that it may become a project felt and participated by all missionaries. We also wish to reaffirm the importance of collaboration with the Consolata Missionary Sisters. It is a wealth to be esteemed and valued for the good of mission and the witness of communion among people. In this sense also “mixed” communities, formed with diocesan priests, deserve greater reflection and realization by us.

 3. Restructuring. The XI General Chapter and our documents invite us to consider a priority task that of an authentic and serious restructuring, in order to qualify our missionary service and project, motivate the local people to also assume responsibility. At this juncture of our history in Ethiopia, we believe it is high time for rethinking our charisma “ad gentes”, how to promote the maturity of the local Church, and what steps to take to help this people and this church grow.

Dearest confreres, by approving the Acts of the Regional Conference, we wish to build up with you the new project to which the Conference leads and you yourselves desire. “The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and God of all consolation” (2 Cor. 1,3) bless and accompany you, with Mary Consolata Queen of the missions:

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General



KENYA’S TENTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 257/06

Dearest missionaries,

Your Region has the privilege of being the first born of our Institute. The charisma sown in this fertile land, has sprouted and born fruit a hundred times more. The evangelization done by our missionaries has given birth to many and fervent local churches and dioceses. Now, the Region has the complete basic formation cycle, gives many confreres to our family. It is represented by more than one of its sons in the hierarchy of the local Church as shepherds. It has under its responsibility vast geographical areas with many people to be evangelized, it shares the joys and pains of mission with the Consolata Sisters, born from the same root. At this time we are called upon to inculturate our charisma with greater conviction and attentive reflection. This is a priority task to assure our continuing presence.

The General Council, aware of all this, makes memorial of it thanking God and all the missionaries. Task of a memorial is to celebrate the past while casting oneself into the future. Today you are called upon to confront yourselves with the new instances regarding the style of life and action, your presences, personnel, formation, services to the Institute and local Church, human promotion and evangelization. This is a new and decisive moment in which you wish lo live and operate under the guidance of the Spirit who continuously purifies and renews all.

By approving the Acts of the Regional Conference, the General Government wishes to bring to the attention of the Regional Council and confreres of the Region the following observations and recommendations.

Missionary project

The Acts have not made sufficiently evident the reading of the social, ecclesial and communitarian reality. We invite the Regional Government to make up for this omission by dealing with this topic at least once every three years in regional or zonal meetings.

Take advantage of these meetings also in order to realize and carry out a regional missionary project encompassing all the dimensions of our living and operating. Such project should also envisage a clear and precise journey for restructuring , thus carrying out the mandate of the General Chapter and of the Regional Conference itself, showing goals, time and concrete choices.

Special attention is to be paid to the young missionaries coming into the Region. Let them be accompanied in their insertion and service so that it be advantageous to the individuals and the whole missionary family.

We ask, in a particular way, that the Regional Government pay special attention to the MVA. This priority option should ever more become the characteristic which identifies the Region in the near future. The Centers of MVA should be promoters of reflections and initiatives which will bring about that “more…” wished by our beloved Founder.

Formation

We ask for a special and profound discernment on formation. Our family in Kenya is blessed with many young people who join our Institute. This is cause for giving thanks to God, but it is also reason for reflection and verification of the service we render to our young people, having in mind the personnel, the structures, the formative project.

Brotherly life

Let us remember that our Founder wants us saints and, as a consequence, he is inviting us to worthily live the vocation to which our Lord has called us with love, since the beginning, making us responsible towards each other in a true family spirit. Walk together, sharing your life and not only your work. Consider your community a privileged place in which you are called to holiness of life.

The wish of the General Council is that every missionary of the Region, grateful for the gift of his missionary vocation, be generous in accepting and carrying out all that the Spirit has brought about through the Regional Conference.

Let the Cross which you will find in your journey be an instrument of purification and means for conforming us to the Savior with whom, one day, we shall live to enjoy the glory of the Father.

With you, we invoke the protection of Mary Consolata and the blessing of Blessed Allamano on our missionary presence and work in Kenya.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General



MOZAMBIQUE'S SEVENTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 258/06

The General Council, in its meeting of 30th November 2006, has examined the Acts of the VII Conference of the Region of Mozambique. The Superior General, having received the favorable consensus of the Council, approves them, with joy, according to the Constitution, and with the following suggestions:
He considers it wise the idea of placing an objective in every chapter of the text of the Acts to clearly show the topic under consideration, and be a guide line of the missionary project as a whole, thus harmonizing all its dimensions.

He appreciates the reading of the reality, particularly that regarding the Regional IMC and the local communities, linked to that of the General Chapter, having in mind the past, present and future planning. Looking at the present situation of the Country and the Church, he invites the Region to set in place concrete initiatives of JPIC and MVA.

He recommends the appreciation of the CPL2 as an means of communion and betterment of community life at both local and regional level, in order to proceed more speedily in unity of intents and avoid the recurrence of protagonism.

He reaffirms that missionary witnessing requires life fidelity to our vocation as people consecrated to mission and it is manifested in the use of goods, daily rhythm of prayer and Eucharistic celebration, reception of the sacrament of reconciliation, participation in our periodical spiritual retreats.

He encourages and supports the operative proposals of the Conference of setting up a local group of LCM3 and of Consolata Youth Movement.

He urges to pay attention to the regional missionary project with a serious restructuring which would keep in account the balance between human and material resources, the time, and the necessary commitment for the consolidation of the local church, first evangelization and the service of the Institute. We should avoid to always intervene in a state of emergency for lack of personnel.

The General Council is trustful that the Regional Government will carry out the program done during the Conference and prays that the Lord, coming at Christmas with his presence humanly fragile but holy, may help you strengthen, within our family and in the mission among the people, the path of conversion, justice and peace which you have started years ago.

The Consolata and Blessed Joseph Allamano will not fail in assisting you.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General



PORTUGAL NINTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Approval of the Acts

Prot. 259/06

Dearest confreres,

It is with joy that we have approved the Acts of your Regional Conference which has seen all of you involved in its preparation and realization with great spirit of communion and sharing. It was also enhanced by the constant presence of a Consolata Sister and a woman member of the CLM4, visible sign of that collaboration already present in the Region for some time, which is also made evident by the close collaboration in the Regional Secretary for Mission and the mutual agreement in choosing Zambujal as your choice of style in carrying out your mission “ad gentes”. Do continue to walk together with all other entities in this project, particularly with the Consolata Sisters and the Consolata Lay Missionaries. The way of mission is service of communion and participation with our brothers and sisters.

Our present time is characterized by barrenness in the field of MVA5 and, despite all this, you go on working with enthusiasm and dedication believing in its importance. In this you have received the contribution of those confreres who have come from other regions. Now, the new Center of Missionary Spirituality will enhance that desire of rendering more meaningful your reflection, discernment and the offering of a solid missionary spirituality. We encourage you to continue on this path with that enthusiasm and generosity which is your characteristic. We take also this opportunity to thank the whole Region for the collaboration and financial help rendered to the whole Institute by your annual contribution. Also this is road to the mission and the sacrifices made become leaven and support for our family.

We appreciate and confirm again Zambujal as your choice “ad gentes”. It is sign of courage and impulse for the Region. We believe also that after a few years the time has come to give consistency to this presence. Our “ad gentes”, commitment to Justice and Peace, inter-religious dialogue, find in such environment a fitting arena where to exercise our missionary vocation. Let us all esteem this experience as our very own and contribute to its accomplishment.

Your magazine is good and of quality. So that it may continue to progress and be expression of our charisma and of the life of the Institute, in general, and of the Region, in particular, we invite you to consider it as your very own and carry it on in a team.

We entrust each one of you and your activities to the Consolata and our Father Allamano. Let us always proceed forward having in our heart passion for the mission which the Lord has imbued in us when he called us to this extraordinary vocation.

Rome, 30th November 2006

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini, IMC – Superior General
Fr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC – Secretary General



Regions

 The Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Institute, in a meeting held on 21 November 2006, considered the request made of the Region Roraima and having had the favourable opinion of his Council, decides the change of name of the Region Roraima which from now on will be called Region Amazzonia (RAM). (Prot 227/06)

Community

The Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Institute, in a meeting held on 16 November 2006, considered the request of the Direction of the Delegation Corea and having had the favourable opinion of his Council, decides the closing of the local IMC community of Guryong Maul. (Prot 213/06)

The Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Institute, in a meeting held on 16 November 2006, considered the request made by the Regional Direction of Tanzania and having had the favourable opinion of his Council, confirms the decision to open a new IMC community in Bunju which will be at the service of the Mission Animation Centre. (Prot 214/06)

Confirmation of elections

 The Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Institute, in a meeting held on 15 November 2006, considered the result of the elections held in the Region Kenya and having had the favourable opinion of his Council, confirms the election of the Vice Superior and Councilors of that Region:
Vice Superior Kwajaba Fr Vedastus

Councilors Barbero Fr Tommasso

Waithaka Fr Joseph

Anataloni Fr Luigi


The Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Institute, in a meeting held on 16 November 2006, considered the indications given by the Superior of the Region Congo, and having had the favourable opinion of his Council, appoints
TSIDITETA, Fr MALUASA HONORÉ

regional councilor of the Region Congo in place of Fr Citora Osório Afonso appointed to the General House. (Prot 215/06)


Dispensations

 On the 16 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr Carlos Marcilla Gutiérrez, imc the extension of the permit to leave outside the community for one year, starting from 15 October 2006, to assist his mother. (Prot 211/06)

 On the 16 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr Bernardino Filosi, imc the extension of the permit to leave outside the community for one year starting from 22 July 2006, to assist his mother. (Prot 212/06)

Exclaustration

On the 16 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr José Fernando da Rocha Martins an indult of exclaustration for three years, to exercise the priestly ministry under the Archbishop of Lisbon (Portugal).

 On the 16 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr Gervas Ephraim Lyimo an indult of exclaustration for a year, to exercise the priestly ministry under the Archbishop of Cali (Colombia).

 On the 16 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr Gian Luigi Morgano an indult of exclaustration to exercise the priestly ministry under the Archbishop of Cascavel (Brazil).

 On the 27 November 2006, the Superior General granted Fr Alphonsus Mwariri an indult of exclaustration for three years to exercise the priestly ministry under the Bishop of Metuchen (USA).
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