BANGALORE, India - “It is through the most Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus Christ came into the world, and it is also through her that he will reign in the world,” says St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, our founder, and it’s through the blessing of Mother Mary that the Montfort Missionaries were led to India in 1973. It’s a land, where one experiences the divine milieu in cities and villages alike...

SAINT LAURENT-SUR-SÈVRE, France - On the initiative of the Montfortian Spirituality Committee, about thirty Brothers of St. Gabriel, Montfort Missionaries and Daughters of Wisdom met at St. Laurent sur Sèvre, from November 10 to 13 in order to...

LEUVEN, Belgium – On 17th December 2022 about fifteen people amidst chilling winter participated in the Montfortian Formation and Encounter Days (MVOD) session facilitated by Fr. Frans FABRY, SMM...

KINSHASA, Republique Democratique du Congo - On Saturday, November 19, 2022, the Congregation of Montfort Missionaries had the joy of celebrating the priestly ordination of Deacon Trésor ESAMPELE NKUKU, SMM. The priestly ordination Mass took place in Kinshasa in the Cathedral Church of Notre Dame du Congo...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (PNG) – Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort (1673-1716), originally from France and having lived in the era of absolute monarchism under the Sun King, was certainly unfamiliar with PNG. The existence of this nation with a population of 9,362,780 is located in the southwest Pacific and began to be known from the 19th century...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - One of the most intimate opportunities inscribed in the heart of every Montfortian missionary, those among others who work together in PNG, is the authentic sharing of missionary life. This was keenly felt on Friday, December 16, 2022, as part of an Entity Assembly in Port Moresby. Every missionary who works in this country known especially as the homeland of a certain species of "bird of paradise", has had the opportunity to express what he had in his heart filled with simplicity and brotherly love...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo - Called by God to Montfortian religious and priestly life, it was on 6th November 2022 that Deacon Ephrem KULONDWA MUDERWA SMM was ordained a priest in the Cathedral church of Bukavu, by the imposition from the hands of His Excellency Monsignor Francois-Xavier MAROY RUSENGO, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Blessing Mass of the “Montfortian House of Prayer” took place in Bomana, Port Moresby, PNG, by Cardinal John RIBAT, MSC, Archbishop of Port Moresby. This community which is a house of formation for the candidates of the General Delegation of PNG of the Montfortian Missionaries is located in the complex of the Catholic Theological Institute (ITC) where these candidates study Philosophy and Theology...

BWOGA-CHIOGGIA, Burundi - On Sunday December 11, 2022, the third Sunday of Advent, called the "Sunday of Joy", the Company of Mary, in general, and the General Delegation of Francophone Africa (DGAF), in particular, were in a great joy, together with the local Church of Burundi, to have welcomed the very first Burundian Montfortian to the priesthood...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Activities for the Canonical Visit of the General Administration of the Montfort Missionaries and the Closing of the Continental Mission Year (CMY) of Asia and Oceania are continuing in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In this second week (7-12 December 2022), the Superiors from Asia and Oceania and the General Administration paid a visit to the Daru-Kiunga Diocese in the Western Province...

CEBU CITY, Philippines - Last December 4, 2022, a gift-giving and feeding program was conducted at Kabangkalan, Tuburan, Cebu City, the current mission area of the Itinerant Mission Team of Montfort Missionaries, namely Fr. Lester C. BONETE, SMM and Fr. Ronald B. BARUELA, SMM. It was indeed a grace-filled moment for the community of Kabangkalan as they entered the Second Sunday of Advent and heard the voice of John the Baptist saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near…Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” (Mt. 3:2-3)...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines - On December 8, 2022, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for the very first time, the TTJ has finally reached Mindanao with 45 Legion of Mary officers and members of the Senatus of Mindanao who made their Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary according to St. Louis-Marie de Montfort...

BALAKA, Malawi - On the solemnity of the immaculate conception of the blessed virgin Mary, the Anglophone delegation officially opened and blessed a new pre-postulancy house called Brother Mathurin Rangeard Pre-postulancy Community in Andiamo, Balaka...

CZĘSTOCHOWA, Poland - Last November 22, at Częstochowa, the Brothers of Saint Gabriel, represented by their Vicar General, Br. Dionigi TAFFARELLO, and the Montfort Missionaries of the Italian Province, represented by the Provincial Fr. Mario BELOTTI, SMM and the bursar, Fr. Angelo SORTI, SMM, signed the deed of transfer of ownership of a house located at about two kilometers away from the Holy Cross Basilica where the most famous icon of the Black Madonna is kept and venerated...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - On December 4, 2022, after a month of preparation, “Montfortian month”, 18 lay people; members of the Associate Marie Reine des Cœurs Antsobolo, joyfully and courageously made their consecration to Jesus through the hands of Mary. The gracious occasion took place at the Immaculate Conception Antsobolo parish where the Montfortians work...

PORT MORESBY, PNG - On Friday, December 2, 2022, the confreres at the Montfortian Formation House of Bomana, and several parishioners and confreres at the Saint Martin de Porres Parish in Morata, all in Port Moresby, got up early and got busy to organize everything to welcome a Montfortian Delegation that landed at the airport of the capital city of Papua New Guinea. There was the Assistant General, Fr. Wismick JEAN-CHARLES, SMM who came from Rome and Fr. Shibi, SMM (Councillor, representing Fr. Peter MASCARENHAS, SMM, the Vice-Provincial) who came from Bangalore...