Together we received with great joy the news about the release of our confrere and friend, Fr. Pier Luigi Maccalli.Our profound thanksgiving goes to the Lord of Life and to each one of you who, with your prayers and sincere thoughts, continued in the faith awaiting his return.
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" …love your neighbor like yourself, for us means, to love the other the country as your own, to love the other unit as your own," and a feeling that the "whole SMA is as your own real family."Despite the sanitary situation that the world is currently facing due to covid -19, the Society of African Missions has celebrated 164 years since its foundation on the 08th of December 1856. In a televised address to the SMA family all over the world, the Superior General characterized this year’s celebrations with two words, "fragility and gratitude."
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« A family that prays together stays together. » Bishop Melchior de Marion Bresillac made a special invitation to « always have our eyes fixed on Mary. Let her be our hope and our refuge in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In her, we find both a model and help… ». On the 26th May 2020, the SMA founder was declared venerable and the members of the SMA Spirituality commission in collaboration with the postulator of the Cause of the founder, have a rosary made with the proper SMA effigies depicting the photo of de Bresillac and the SMA logo with a guide for praying the rosary with venerable de Bresillac.
Please click the link below for more information.
http://smainternational.info/images/NotreFondateur/Devotion-Fondateur/Praying_Rosary_Bresillac.pdf
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The SMA International media team was privileged to Interview Fr. Jean -Marie Guillaume, the former Superior General of the Society of African Missions. He was Provincial of the Province of Strasburg for two consecutive terms of office (1995 – 2007) and then found himself once again in Rome as Vicar General of the Society during the General Assembly of 2007. Three years later, he replaced the Superior General, Kieran O’Reilly, who had been appointed Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland. He is now a resident at the provincial house in Strasbourg and here are some of his thoughts.
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Fr. Gigi Maccalli was received today by the Pope at a private audience.
These are his words after the private audience with the Pope: "I told the Pope how I prayed and felt supported by the prayer of the Church. Pope Francis responded by telling me instead that it was the Church that was supported by my prayer. The Holy Father was very attentive to what I was saying. It was like a father listening and welcoming a son who came back after a long time.
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Primary evangelization basically meant bringing Christ to a world that had not yet heard of him. The content of this evangelization is the announcement of the Kingdom of God and the liberating salvation brought by Christ. This evangelization comes within the scope of understanding the form of Christianity which European missionaries brought with them, namely, to Africa with its socio-cultural, social, theological, and spiritual baggage. We note that often the encounter between missionaries and the local African communities was ambiguous just like that of colonialism itself.
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"It was your prayers that sustained me in these years of imprisonment."
Dear friends,
We, Missionary Fathers of the Italian Province of the Society of the African Missions, greet you and wish you all the best.
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Pier Luigi Maccalli landed with a military plane in Rome-Ciampino on the afternoon of Friday 9 October, together with Nicola Chiacchio, his fellow prisoner. Welcomed by Prime Minister Conte and the Foreign Minister Di Maio, he then completed the formalities at the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and at the Crisis Unit of the Farnesina (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). We were finally able to see him and take him to the SMA Generalate in via Della Nocetta in Rome on Friday evening, together with his sister's family who came to welcome him.- Details
SMA Founder Bsp. Melchior Marion de Brésillac
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