Be holy, and urge all your confrères to be holy (…). Be holy as Jesus was holy; it is the one and only means of redeeming and sanctifying souls. Let the Spirit of Jesus animate all your actions; let Him shape every sentiment of your soul; let Him soften and moderate every impulse of sharpness in the mind, every harsh or rigid feeling of the heart — in a word, everything passionate or disordered within the soul (…). May He communicate to your heart the gentleness and humility of which the divine Master has given us the example.

François Libermann (N.D XIII, 143-144)

1976 | Cameroon

Père Athanase Bala is appointed coadjutor bishop to Mgr. Loucheur (who retires to Deuk the following year).

1981 | Pakistan

Visit of Joseph Gross, first General Assistant. Spiritans will take on Sukkur parish (Sindh, Hyderabad diocese) in 1983 and a third team will be prepared for another mission. Half the Spiritans will be involved full-time in Marwari work, The objective of a 12 member group by 1986 is accepted.

1988 | Belgium

The first meeting of the European co-ordinators for Justice and Peace.

1994 | Pakistan

Visitation by Fr. Bernard Kelly, first Assistant. The following year, in 1995, Jim O'Connell is elected Group Leader, after Frank Naughton (86-92) and Eamon McCann. It is decided to return Sukkur parish to the diocese in May,1996; for a variety of reasons, the Marwari apostolate has never been developed in that area.