KESSEL-LO, Belgium - On 20 June 2026, the Kessel-Lo community hosted its first ever ‘Open Day’ for the neighbourhood. For us, the residents, it was a real challenge: what did we mean by this, how should we organise it, how many people would turn up, and what were we going to offer? Ourselves, our house and our chapel? ....
HOEGAARDEN, Belgium - Every year during the month of May in the pastoral unit of Saint Catharina Hoegaarden, several associations such as Okra, Samana, Celishof, Brouwketel, Femma, and others together known as de Gezonde Buurt (“Healthy Neighbourhood”) organize a walk entitled “With and for Mother Mary.”...
LEUVEN, Belgium - Visitors to St Quentin’s Church in Leuven will find a painting depicting the annual pilgrimage to Our Lady of Neerwaver (Basse-Wavre), established following the end of a severe plague epidemic in 1652. Jan Buyckx, the parish priest at the time who organised the pilgrimage and donated this painting, is also depicted....
LOUVAIN, Belgium - On Tuesday, 16 December, we—the Montfortians, more specifically the young missionaries Frs. Ghislain KASEREKA, SMM, Aimé KAMANDA, SMM and Nepo JAMES, SMM—organized a day of reflection on the theme, ‘Born Again, also Now and Today.’...
LEUVEN, Belgium - With the Mass on September 8 which was celebrated in the great Church of Saint Peter and was followed by the renewal of the baptismal promises of all the participants, the confreres of the community of Kessel-Lo launched the initiative “On the road with Montfort”. Its aim is to create a movement that can reach young students and interest them in our Montfortian spirituality from the region of Leuven...
GENK, Belgium - We take pride in what our confreres have accomplished in the Diocese of Hasselt. We are well known for our popular mission preaching, moving from parish to parish. We share a close bond with this diocese, as many of our confreres have collaborated with the local church, serving as parish priests in numerous parishes...
MONTAIGU, Belgium - The celebration of the Feast of the birth in heaven of Father de Montfort had been anticipated to Friday, April 26, 2024, in the General Delegation of Belgium. The Montfort Feast has usually been celebrated in complete sobriety in one of the communities, either in Kessel-Lo (Leuven) or in Genk and most often, only between Montfort confreres. At the great initiative of the Council of the Delegation, this year, the celebration of Montfort had a different color...
BELGIUM - This year, the Belgian Delegation was pleased and proud to celebrate the 60th priestly ordination anniversary of Fr. Jef SCHEEPENS, SMM, Fr. Frans FABRY, SMM, and Fr. Jos VERBELEN, SMM...