Novena to Bishop Brésillac (Day1)
Plenary Council 2022
SMA News - January 2023
Today Friday, July 22, the feast of Mary Magdalene, the participants took a step back in time to examine the history of our two institutes. The various study groups formed for this purpose presented the fruit of their research. Among the fields of research, we can note the Formation of missionaries, the organization of the Institutes, the context: Social, cultural, political, religious and ecclesial, the missionary animation and the image of Africa as presented in Europe.
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This Thursday, July 21, the work focused on the data collected during the experiential phase. The experiential phase, the second step of the process towards 2026, took place from March 2021 to June 2022. The purpose of the experiential phase was to encourage members to individually reflect on, share, and celebrate together the missional experiences of the current generation of SMA and OLA.
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This 2nd day of the meeting began in an atmosphere of recollection. In the morning, the participants entered the mysterious bowels of the Brésillac Center to meditate on the theme of "Our experience of our founders and charism today". The personal reflection was guided by this fundamental question: Who are the founders for me, in my history? This was followed by a moment of sharing in small groups. The sharing revealed extraordinary experiences of the presence of Brésillac and Planque in the lives of others.
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As announced a few days ago, the SMA-OLA Session started this Tuesday, July 19 at the Centre Brésillac of Calavi in Benin. This first day was devoted first to the welcome and installation of participants. In the afternoon, there was a first meeting during which various officials succeeded each other to express their welcome to the forty delegates present at this session, and to give some information on the practical arrangements.
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Pope Francis says SIGNIS “can play an important role” in meeting the challenge of “toxicity, hate speech, and fake news” in the media. Although modern means of communication can be “a powerful means of fostering communion and dialogue within our human family,” they can also become “places of toxicity, hate speech, and fake news,” warns Pope Francis, in a message to the lay communications network SIGNIS, which is holding its annual World Congress in Seoul in August.“It is appropriate,” the Pope says, “that, in these days marked by new outbreaks of violence and aggression in our world, you have chosen as the theme of your World Congress ‘Peace in the Digital World.”
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From July 19 to 26, 2022, an SMA-OLA session will be held at the Brésillac Center in Calavi, within the framework of the reflection on the common spiritual heritage of the two Institutes.
The members of the SMA-OLA Commission and the SMA and OLA delegates of the different units of the two institutes are expected to attend this session. This meeting is the 3rd phase of a process initiated 7 years ago.
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Introduction: Dear beloved brothers and sisters, we are gathered together around the Lord's table on this day when we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, before suffering his passion, made a very strong gesture: by giving his body and blood as a food; his body delivered and scourged for us; his blood shed for our life. And he will add, "Do this in memory of me." So, every time you give your life or you give your blood for the life of the other, you do it in memory of the one who "loved you and gave himself up for you."
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Charism and Constitutions
SMA Founder Bsp. Melchior Marion de Brésillac
Message from the Superior General and his councils
Synod 2021-2023
