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Via Sapientiae: The Institutional Repository at DePaul University Vincentiana (English) Vincentiana 4-30-1981 Volume 25, no. 1-2: January-April 1981 Congregation of the Mission Recommended Citation Congregation of the Mission. Vincentiana, 25, no. 1-2 (January-April 1981) 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]. C O NGREGATIO M IS S I ONIS VINCENTIANA 0 1981 1581 - 24 Apr. - 1981 VSI.PER. 255.77005 V775 v.25 •; no.1-2 1991 (lj^y1Rl SUMMARIUM ACTA SANCTAE SEDIS Nominatio episcopalis : Mons. Vicente Zico . I SCRIS: prorogatio indulti « de stipendiis Missarum >> . 3 CURIA GENERALITIA Communicatio Sup. Gen. «to the Visitors)> (7-2-1981) 4 Communicatio Sup. Gen. Superioribus Prov. (16-2-1981) 6 Communicatio Sup. Gen. to the Visitors>> (27-2-1981) 7 Litterae Sup. Gen. « to Each Confrere in the World » (19-3-1981) . 8 Regimen C.M.: Nominationcs et Confirmationes . 10 Necrologium . 12 HOMILIAE SUP. GEN. - Richard McCullen C.M. - ((St. Vincent d. P. - Charity)> (Mill Hill, 27-9-1980) 13 - « Mortificazione» (Curia, 14-12-1980) . 16 - « Animatori di Communiti della CM in Italia >) (Roma, 29-12-1980) . 17 - «Au Conseil Provincial>) ( Paris , 12-1-1981) . 20 - « Amour de Dieu dans la soutfrance >> (Dax, 23-4-1981) 21 EN CETI-E ANNEE t_) UATRIC:ENTENAIRE DE LA NAISSANCI: DE. ST. VINCENT « Le Berceau >>, c'est « notre » berceau - Richard AIc- Cullen, Sup. Gen . 23 Actualit6 de St. Vincent - Jean Fourastil, de I'Institut de France . 24 Cuarto Ccntenario del Nacimicnto dc Vicente de Paul - Jorge Chac6n S.J . 31 St. Elizabeth Seton, Spiritual Daughter of St. Vincent - J o s e p h I. Dirvin C.:1f. 33 IV Centenario do Nascimento de S. Vicente de Paulo: ComemoraSio e reflcxio - Iprosul/Curiliba . 38 continuatio II involucri pagina VINCENTIANA COMMEI\'1'AR I t INI OFFICIA1.1: l'RO SOD;\ I, I11l 1S GONGREGATIONIS MISSIONIS AI:1i:R\'1S \IENSIISL S EIITUM Apud Curiant Generalitiam Via di Bravetta , 159 - 00164 ROMA ANNO XXV ( 1981) Fasciculi 1-2, Jan.-April. ACTA SANCTAE SEDIS NOMINATIO EPISCOPALIS u It Santo Padre ha nominalo Coadiutore con dirillo di successione di Sua Eccellenza Reverendissima Monsignor Alberto Gaudencio Ramos, Arcivescovo di Belem do Para (Brasile ), it Reverendo Padre Vicente Joaquim Zico, delta Congregazione delta ,ilissione (Lazzaristi) ». (O.R., 24-12-1980) Mardi, 23 decembre 1980; it 12,15 h., Radio Vatican lance la nouvelle . L'apres-midi , a IG h. 1'Osservatore Romano qui parait avec la date du jour suivant) publie la texte rapporte a la page precedente . Je me precipite au bureau du P. General . Il sourit ; les Assistants presents sourient et Fun deux propose qu 'il faut « souligner » tout de suite 1'evenement et le P . McCullen de se faitre le servant »... Depuis quinze jours deux de la Curie le Sup. Gen. et le P. Zico ont Bien garde leur secret. Pourtant, le P. Zico depuis une bonne semaine ne pouvait dissimuler une a grave preoccupation >>. Nous I'avions taquine voici quelques mois, quand it avait ete demande par le Card. Secretaire d'Etat pour un service de deux moisi a un dicastcre du Vatican . Maintenant le P. Zico, du fait de cette nomination , cesse comme Assistant General et devra nous quitter sous peu. En effet, tout aussitot , le P. Zico est averti que le Pape desire, le Gjanvier , proceder a l'ordination episco- pale ils seront I I nouveaux eveques . 11 faut, donc, dare- dare, faire les preparatifs indispensables habits, insig- nes, etc . j ; la veille tout est pret . Le G, le P. General, les Assistants , les autres membres de la Curie sont en bonne place a « San Pietro »; de meme les membres de la famille naturelle du P. Zico arrives du Bresil . Comme plusieurs fois VINCENTIANA a donne la biographie et le portrait du nouvel eveque, it suffira , ici, de mentionner un fait singulier et unique pour nous . Mgr Zico appartient a une famille qui a donne a la CM trois de ses fils et deux de ceux-ci sont maintenant eveques et le troisieme est su- perieur a Caraga i Mgr. Belchior Neto et P. Tobias) : une soeur est religieuse carmelite . Un autre frere mane et son epouse et une autre soeur avec les deux vincentiens et l'archeveque de Belem sont la en bonne place aussi: meme, Mgr. Belchior assiste le Pape a 1'autel. Voici done le P. Vicente Zico devenu archeveque coadjuteur, avec droit de succession, de i'archeveque de Belem, au nord du Bresil , en pleine region tropicale. Une region a chaude >, it tous les points de vue. Des confreres de la Province de Fortaleza y travaillent depuis des annees. Limitrophe, la Prelature du Cameta dont l'eveque est Mgr. Chaves C.M. Vastes territoires sillonnes de fleuves im- menses avec des populations tres ouvertes a une evange- lisation « a la St . Vincent >>. Le 11 janvier , Mgr. Zico (et ses freres ) nous quitte. Nos prieres et notre amitie les accompagnent. J.-0. B. SACRA CONGREGATIO PRO RELIGIOSIS ET INSTITUTIS SAECULARIBUS N. 2 1 606 / 74 Beatissimo Padre it Superiore Generale della Congregazione delta Missione, implora dally Santita Vostra, a favore dei saccrdoti della mede- sima, it rinnovo dclla facolta concessa it 9 novembre 1977, di riccvcre e ritencrc a vantaggio dell'Opera delle Missioni e delle vocazioni, I'elemosina delle SS. Mcsse binate a trinate. Che della grazia, ecc... Sacra Congregatio pro Religiosis et Institutis saecularibus, attentis expositis, annuit pro gratia prorogation is enunciati indulti ad aliud triennium , exceptis parocho et vice parocho, stricte dicto, si Ordi- narius loci id exegerit, obserrata quoque Declaratione S. Congregationis pro Cultu Divino diet 7 augusti 1972; ceteris servatis servandis. Gontrariis quibuslibet non obstantibus. Datum Romae, die 17 ianuarii 1981. + A. Mayer .Sec.. Basil Ilci:ci ->I'mc SUII'e' F. -4- CURIA GENERALITIA CONGREGAZIONE DELLA M ISSIONE Curia Generalizia Roma , 7 February 1981 To the Visitors of the Congregation May the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with us forever! The purpose of this short circular letter is to give you some information and to ask some from you in return. Firstly, most of you will have heard that Father Vicente Zico was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Belem do Para in north-east Brazil on the 23rd of Dccember, and was ordained Bishop along with ten others by the Pope on the 6th of January in St . Peter's. To help me select a new Assistant, the Council here suggested that I consult the Visitors of Latin America, which I did. At present I am awaiting the reply of a Confrere who has been asked to become the new Assistant, and I will let you know his name as soon as I can. 1 am sure you join me in thanking M onsignor Zico for his work here in the Curia over the past six years and in wishing him a ad multos annos et beatos o in his new respon- sibilities. Next, the copies of the issue of V I NCENTIANA which con- tains the official text of our Constitutions and Statutes have been dispatched to the Provinces. You will also receive shortly a copy of an article published by Father Carlo Braga in the Annali delta Missione, 87 (1980, 171-194). We thought here that it might be of help to you in initiating study of our new Constitu- tions and Statutes in your Province. There is hardly any need for me to underline the importance of the Confreres becoming familiar with our new Constitutions and Statutes. In the short run, it is important for our Provincial Assemblies. It will be difficult to hold a successful Provincial Assembly if the Conli•eres are not familiar with our new Constitutions and Statutes. In the long run, it is very desirable that the content of our Consti- tutions and Statutes , above all, the spiritual riches which they contain , would guide and shape the living of our lives and the work of our apostolates. POST uLATUM OF GENI;R. I, ASSF\1BLY You will remember that the General Assembly approved a postulate which is entitled , << Postulatum GIEV », and is to be found on page 258 of our Constitutions and Statutes . 1 would -5- he very grateful if you would let me know before the end of March: 1. What organization exists in your Province for the pro- motion of these basic Vincentian studies? 2. Whether your Province is a member of a group of provinces promoting these studies? The reason why I seek this information is in order that we may have a clear picture of the present situation of Vincentian studies in the Provinces. With such information to hand it will be more cagy to advance the organization of such studies at an international level, as desired by the Postulatum - GIEV.