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The parish of St Matthew on the island of Jersey is confided to the Spiritans so as to form a community base for work with the Portuguese community. The Portuguese…

The 4th Enlarged General Council takes place at Arusha, Tanzania. There are 49 Spiritans present.

At the Enlarged General Council in Arusha, Tanzania, a special appeal is made by the Borana group for personnel. The Nigerian Province agrees to send one of their men, Peter…

Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo at Tananarive. A delegation from the diocese of Mahajanga takes part in the ceremonies.

District of Kongolo becomes the District of Zaire.

The East African Foundation becomes the East African Province with Fr Daniel Macha as its first Provincial.

Brazil South East

Spiritans leave the diocese of Jales in the State of São Paolo where they have been working for the last 13 years.

The Post-Synodal Exhortation by Pope John Paul II on the vocation and mission of lay people in the Church and the World is published.

Creation of the diocese of Kinkala, with Mgr. Anatole Milandou as bishop.

Papua New Guinea

The Indian Ocean Foundation (IOF) makes PNG one of its priority missions, sending its first members in 1988. In 1995, the Nigerian Province also becomes a partner in the mission.

Opening of new Marwari villages schools at Mogi and Darobagwar (Rahim Yar Khan).

Arrival of the first two WAF missionaries appointed to The Gambia: Frs. John Kwofie and Matthew Amoako-Attah.

Conflict, racialism and the cult of the individual are all too prevalent in the world of today. By coming together from so many different places and cultures, we are saying…

The Itaici Chapter had been remarkable for the emphasis it put on Spiritan experience as a source for seeing where the Spirit was leading us. It is in experience that…

Maynooth General Chapter, Spirituality Ch. 2

The Spirit goes ahead of us on the path of mission and signs of his presence accompany our work. Mission is therefore a pilgrimage, an adventure, contemplation and discovery of…

Maynooth: Our Mission, p. 98

Mission, seen as the announcing of the Good News of the Kingdom, has always been at the very heart of our Spiritan life (SRL 1). But recently, a certain style…

Maynooth General Chapter: chap. 3, p. 107

The Spirit implants in us the desire to serve the poor and oppressed and shapes our hearts to respond to this desire. The Spirit is behind all the sources of…

Maynooth 2, 11-19

From the beginning, our mission has favoured the poor. Today, we reaffirm our commitment to the poor. As for Justice and Peace, the members of the Chapter noted that an…

General Chapter, Maynooth 7.2.2

Some Provinces are becoming increasingly weak and lack the personnel to continue their commitments. They need the help of the Congregation. They could get this from the other older Provinces…

General Chapter, Maynooth 7.2.2

The older Provinces are realising that Spiritan mission is also in their own back yard, so, for example, they are taking on commitments in the service of immigrants, refugees and…

Pierre Schouver: Introduction to the Chapter documents of Maynooth

Our founders were quoted many times and the Chapter gave its approval to a programme for making us more aware of our tradition. This was in answer to an increased…

Maynooth: 1.19. Gary Warner

We do not come empty-handed; we bring valuable experience, talents and skills to the Congregation. As lay people, we can work with you to forge new or deeper patterns of…

John Skinnader: Maynooth, 1.5

Today, Justice and Peace ministry is taking on various forms. Education: both formal and informal, defending the rights of people, helping people to organise themselves for the defence of their…

Maynooth 5: 12&13

We will develop collaboration between Spiritan institutes and institutes in which we participate, especially in the areas of training, jus-tice and peace and missionary awareness. The role of the General…

Formal and informal education are not something on the margins of our apostolate but an integral part of our mission of evangelisation. This conviction is based on two considerations: on…

There is a growing interest in our history within the Congregation. Undoubtedly, it is the development of mission and the orientations of Vatican II that have led us to look…

Gabriel Mbilingi: Maynooth 1:9

In an atmosphere of war, faith, hope and fraternity constitute the secret that explains the great capacity for suffering and the overcoming of difficulties which one finds in people who…

Inauguration of the Seminaire Brottier at Libreville.

A decision in principle was taken by the Provincial Council to set up a project in Dublin's inner city. Bishop Joseph Carroll approved the establishment of the Fatima Mansion's Group.…

Indian Ocean Foundation

First 3 missionaries of the Foundation set out from Mauritius for Papua New Guinea.

South African Foundation

The Laval house of studies opens with Fr. John Moriarty as its first Director.

A Spiritan postulancy is opened at Akabo in Oweri diocese. The Spiritan International School of Theology (SIST) starts at Attakwu, Enugu diocese, for Spiritan students of Anglophone West Africa.

The parish of Pemba in Monze diocese is opened by the Spiritans.

The death of Père Bernard Noël (70), General Archivist of the Congregation for 30 years.

Luis Aponte, Archbishop of San Juan, presides at the mass when the first Group of the Foundation is being sent out to the mission in Brazil.

The death of P. Francisco Nogueira da Rocha. He was General Bursar from 1962 to 1974.

An international Spiritan noviciate is set up in the former provincialate in Cypress Downs, Templeogue, Dublin.

Fr. Nicolaas Ligthart of the Dutch province is killed in an ambush between Huambo and Chinguar. He was aged 46.

P. Schouver, Supérieur Général, Lettre Noël 96

Les voies de la mission au-delà des frontières sont ouvertes là-bas (en Extrême-Orient). J’ai en mémoire : un Franciscain dans les montagnes de Taiwan, au milieu des populations indigènes comme…

Jean Paul II discours à la Curie sur l_esprit de la rencontre...

DIALOGUE INTERRELIGIEUX DANS L’ESPRIT D’ASSISE Le 22 décembre 1986, le pape Jean-Paul II a reçu les cardinaux et les membres de la Curie romaine pour la présentation traditionnelle des voeux…

The last Spiritans leave Brooklyn to return to Haiti.

The Diocese of Brooklyn ceases to be responsible for the Spiritans who have been working with Haitian refugees. They meet together to plan their return to Haiti. They draw up…

Small Christian communities become a priority in the pastoral plan.

Marwari village schools are opened. Many villages are visited with the FMM sisters for health education programmes and the distribution of medicine for common ailments. Cooperative programmes are also started.

A former presbytery in Chadstone, Victoria, is bought to serve as a community house. Libermann House becomes a place of formation for aspirants. The first Australian Spiritan is ordained -…

The Spiritan seminary "Daniel Brottier" opens beside the Collège Bessieux at Libreville.

Frans Timmermans: Report to General Chapter, 1986

Dialogue is mission. This is the first time in history that the Church in its Magisterium recognises other Religions as true partners in a common search for God. We cannot…

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