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"Adopt a Seminarian Project" in the Philippines |
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 I just stayed in the Philippines for almost a year and have observed the difficulty of the friars to sustain themselves materially because of the simultaneous necessities in the mission: maintenance of the radio station apostolate, basic sustenance of the growing number of vocations (this year we have about 30 interested vocations for aspirancy, 17 postulants, 7 novices and four communities), demands of the apostolate, etc.
In the face of these needs, is the difficulty of sending to school our seminarians who have vocations to the priesthood. In the west, where vocations are scarce and in crisis, in the Philippines, however, we have an abundance. As a matter of statistics, the majority of the members of the Institute which sustain almost all the missions in the world came from the Philippines. I guest they are becoming international. |
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Challenges of Poverty in Argentina |
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State of poverty in Buenos Aires
 I got an email from our missionary Fr. Isidore M. Cypres, FI, the superior of our mission in Buenos Aires. I am in the process of translating it for publication for our site, but for the meantime, I can certainly say that it is a very moving description of the misery experienced by our missionaries. It is not not only a misery from material poverty of the people, but especially, spiritually: the pervasive lack of catechesis of the three villages they serve (consisting of roughly 40,000 population), the state of marriage outside the Church (for the past 8 years, there are only 60 couples married in the Church), the existence of poverty in their parish (the friars maintain two parishes) where they feed hungry people on a regular basis. |
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General Needs for India Mission |
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The present needs of the Mission
 In conversation with Fr. Vincent Amores, FI, the first missionary of our Institute in India, he mentioned the growing needs of the mission for material support especially with the foreseen growth of vocations in this emerging community.
At the present moment, the friars and several vocations are living in a rented apartment which has only three rooms for sleeping quarters. They are transformed into dormitories and have beds of double deck to accommodate the number of vocations interested to join our Order. There are about nine aspirants who are already living with him and a foreseen 30 other young boys who express their desire to join. |
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