Our pilgrimage in Rome There was a single moment in the history of the Congregation when our Founder was beatified on 9 November 1997 at St Peter's Basilica in Rome.The bishops, priests, religious and lay people around the world gathered together in this celebration.It was absolutely amazing and inspiring.Around 10, 000 people filled St Peter's Square to take part in the Eucharist presided by the Holy Father - Pope John Paul II.There were two other servants of...

Across the border of Mexico I did a mission work at Casa del Migrante in the border of Ciudad Juárez, México.It is where a lot of Mexicans, Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Peruvians cross into the U.S. without fear and discover later that they cannot do so without any necessary documents. There is a search fro meaning that explores the struggles and difficulties the migrant faces including the relationship between home and away. Of the many storie...

A one-month course in Piacenza, Italy - un aggiornamento I was one of the participants who took part in the course of Spirituality organized by our congregation - Missionaries of St Charles held 1-30 June 2001 in Piacenza, Italy.We were thirty-eight (38) Scalabrinian missionaries working in different countries namely, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, México, U.S.A., Taiwan, Philippines and Australia.We c...

Dialogue re-joined in Boston, MA Our young group of religious missionaries from the two provinces of St Charles Borromeo and John the Baptist of the United States held their annual meeting 6-10 November 2000 at St John Pastoral Institute in Brighton, Massachusetts.This year's theme focused on the challenges and future perspectives in the Brazilian apostolate in the Archdiocese of Boston. Fr Vincenzo Rosato CS, pastor and current director of the Office for E...

Popular spirituality of the Filipinos - in various structures The starting point Looking back on the past centuries of the Philippine situation, the influences of Spain and the United States of America have become clear to some extend that the self-awareness of Filipinos is still in the process of being born.Faced with the idea of the West towards colonization and acculturation, things have reached into the ways of disequilibrium.This imbalance, in turn...