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Vincentiana Volume 37 Number 1 Vol. 37, No. 1-2 Article 1 1993 Vincentiana Vol. 37, No. 1-2 [Full Issue] Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentiana Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, Comparative Methodologies and Theories Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, and the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1993) "Vincentiana Vol. 37, No. 1-2 [Full Issue]," Vincentiana: Vol. 37 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentiana/vol37/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentian Journals and Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vincentiana by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Via Sapientiae: The Institutional Repository at DePaul University Vincentiana (English) Vincentiana 4-30-1993 Volume 37, no. 1-2: January-April 1993 Congregation of the Mission Recommended Citation Congregation of the Mission. Vincentiana, 37, no. 1-2 (January-April 1993) This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentiana at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vincentiana (English) by an authorized administrator of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. O NGREGATIO M IS S I ONIS VINCENTIANA 0 1993 VS1.YF;1t. 255.77005 V775 v.37 CURL \ GENERALITIA no.1 -2 V i a dei Capasso, 30 1 993 00164 ROMA VINCENTIANA COMMENTARIUM OFFICIALE PRO SODALIBUS CONGREGATIONIS MISSIONIS ALTERNIS MENSIBUS EDITUM ;hand Curianr Generalitiam Via dei Capasso , 30 - 00164 ROMA ANNO XXXVII (1993); N° 185-186 Fasciculi 1-2, Jan.-Apr. S U M M A R I U M CURIA GENERALITIA - Litterx Superioris Generalis Lent1993 ....................................... 1 To the Priests and Brothers oft/re C.AI. (April 15, 1993) .. 4 To the Members of the C.Al. (April 20, 1993) ........... 8 - Regimen Congregationis Nominationes et Confirmationes (Jan.-Apr., /993) ...... 13 Necrologium (Jan.-.Apr., 1993) ...................... 14 STATISTICA 1992 TahuLu compendium 'vocum ' conventionale .......... 15 Tabula Statistica (domorrrn et personarrun ) .......... 16 Necrologium 1992 ................................ 18 Neo-incorporrti1992 .............................. 20 Neo-Presbvteri 1992 ............................... 23 SP1 RITUALITAS The Cross in Vincentian Spirituality , by Robert P. Maloney, Super it a General C.M .............................. 25 STADIA La Tentation contre la Foi de M. Vincent, par Gerard van NWinsen CM ...................................... 48 Les Tribulations des Reliques de Saint Vincent, par Phi- lippe Tonseaud ................................... 54 Montecitorio, di Gilberto Ciuoli C.M .................. 57 VITA ('ONGREGAT IONIS Noyi ahud Curiani Generalem Confratres ............. 61 Per meglio conoscere Albania, di Cristoforo Palmieri C.M. 66 Lo riconobbero nello spezzare it pane, di Luigi Mezzadri C'.Al ............................................ 71 Ongoing Formation Pro Clero', by Philip Van Linden C.M. 76 Cevim : Encuentro de Visitadores de ]as Provincias de Eu- ropa, par Jose Ignacio l er-nandez CAI ................. Province de Paris: Edition informatique des Ecrits des Od- gines vincentiennes, par Claude lantissier C.M.......... 83 Provincia del Peru : CAVI, Centro de Animacion Vicen- ciana, por Victor Hugo Sebastian C. Al ................. 86 Ungarische Provinz : Stossgebet fiireine Kirche, von Mal- ldrEr-a ......................................... 89 IN MEMORIAM P. Salvatore Margiolta - Antonino Vitello CM .......... 92 Fr. Kevin Cronin -- Desmond Beirne ('Al .............. 94 Br. Thomas Gilmartin - Donal Gallagher C.M. ........ 98 99 P. Antonio Santis - Angel Aller C. A1 .................. Diac. Hector Hernin Soto Los Designios de Dios - Gabriel Naranjo CAI ........ 102 Mi Proceso Vocacional - Carlos A. Veldsquez C.M. .. 103 P. Robert Cartier - Charles Tordet C.M ............... 105 P. Albert Ronckier - Leon Lactrverier C.M ............. 107 M. Raymond Darricau - Ch. Teissevre ............... 109 BIBLIOGRAI'IIIC'A L. CHIEROTFI , h'edetko Ozattattt (l8/3-1853). [It to dei fort- datori delle ('onlerwr,:e di Carita ( da "Missione Vicenziana") 115 J. CHARBONNIER. Histoite des Chretierts de Chine (de "Mes- sage etiM essagcrrs") .............................. 11: CURIA GENERALITIA LI1'TERAE SUPERIORIS (:ENERALIS Lent 1993 To all the nternbets of the Congregation of the Mission My very clear Confreres, May the grace of Our Lord be always with you! There is a long list of things that I Would like to tell you about, since we have just finished six days of Council meetings to discuss the international mission teams we are forming, as well as the Center for Ongoing Vincentian Formation in Paris, about which I have written to the Visitors. But I must await another opportunity to write about those matters, since I am about to depart on a journey for Japan, Taiwan and continental China, and want to offer- you a few simple reflections about Lent before I leave. 1 ask you to accompany me with your-prayers as I undertake this mission to China. As you know, our Congrega- tion has a long, wonderful history there. I hope that in some way the joun-ney will be an instrument in coming into renewed contact with our rich heritage in that land. But for now , a.few words about Lent. The roots of Lent are entwined with baptism. In Lent, over the centuries, countless Christians have made, or renewed, their com- mitment to follow Christ even to death. We often repeat during this season the words that Saint Paul probably took from an early Chris- tian baptismal hymn: "Your attitude must be that of Christ. Though He was in the form of God, He did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at. Rather, He emptied Ilimself and took the form ofa slave, being born in the likeness of men . Ile was known to be of human estate, and it was thus that He humbled Himself, obe- diently accepting even death, death on a cross. Because of this God highly exalted I-line and bestowed on Hirn the name above every other name, so that at Jesus' name every knee must bend in the hea- vens, on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father: Jesus Christ is Lord!" (Phil 2:5-11 ). The stark shadow of the cross falls over Lent, but its image is sharpened by the bright light of the resur rection . For the New Tes- tament writers Jesus must not escape his how-. He must undergo the cross if He is to enter into His glory . His followers , too, must take 1 up their cross daily. Paul glories in the cross, because in the New Tes- tament the cross of Christ, as well as those of His followers, is always viewed from the perspective of resurrection faith. May I ask of you two things during this Lenten season. Both of them, it seems to me, are close to the heart of the Vincentian tra- dition. 1. Meditate on the crucified Lord The author of the first letter to Timothv tells us that the full- ness of truth lies in "Christ Jesus, the self-giving one" (I Tim 2:5-6). In fact, all Christian spirituality focuses on the crucified and risen Je- sus. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. The cross is the symbol of what is at the core of Jesus' person: "The way we came to understand love was that He laid down His life for us; we, too, must lay down our lives for one another." (I in 3:16). The crucified Jesus proclaims that self-giving love is at the heart of being God and at the heart of being human. I encourage you to meditate frequently during Lent on the cross as the symbol of God's love. It is a practice that Saint Vincent recommended again and again. "Where do youu think the great Saint Bonaventure got all his wisdom?" he says. "Ln the sacred book of the cross!" (SV IX, 217). It is most important that we ourselves experience the love God reveals through the cross, that we have a deep confidence in a per- sonal loving God who works actively in our lives. This is the foun- dation for all our preaching and for all our pastoral ministry. Our own experience of God's love will move us to proclaim it as good news. This love is self-giving, sacrificial, forgiving, healing, unifying, loyal to one's friends, powerless in solidarity with the weak, and utterly con- fident in the power of God. 2. Meditate on the crucified Lord in the "crucified peoples" Sin continues to work in our times, crucifying the Lord of historY. Vincentians see the crucified every day in the streets of large cities and in poor country villages. But it is so easy for the "world", and for its too, to become numb to their plight: the 5.7 million peo- ple of I laiti, who have been so poor for so long that their pain is no longer news; the 2.5 million Bosnian refugees who are victims of "eth- nic cleansing"; the 1.5 million Somalians on the edge of death by star- vation. Our contemplation of the crucified Lord cannot remain merely a pious exercise; nor can it be simply meditation on a past event. The Lord lives on in His members. lie is crucified in individual persons and in suffering peoples. The call is to see Him and to serve Him there. One of the great gifts of our Founder was the ability to rec- ognize the crucified Christ in the face of the suffering and to mobili- ze the energies of others in their service. He was an extraordinary organizer. To aid the most abandoned of his time, he gathered to- gether rich and poor, women and men, clergy and lay. As he contemplated suffering humanity, he knew, to use the eloquent please of a contemporary writer, that the "crucified peoples" bring salvation to us, as we labor to take them down from the cross.