{"id":2623,"date":"2012-12-07T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2018\/03\/14\/antonio-dos-reis-fernandes-mic-passed-awayheartbreak-leads-to-heavenly-calling-copy-copy-131\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:47:55","slug":"celebrating-patronal-feast-congregation-general-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2012\/12\/07\/celebrating-patronal-feast-congregation-general-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy, Rome: Celebrating the patronal feast of the Congregation at the General House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italy, Rome: Celebrating the patronal feast of the Congregation at the General House<\/h1><\/div>
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Celebrations of the patronal feast of the Congregation of Marian Fathers opened on the evening of Dec.\u00a07th with vespers for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. This year we were led in prayer by Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, Secretary of the Congregation for the Saints. After greeting our guests, Fr.\u00a0Andrzej Pakula, General Superior, recalled the assembled that\u00a02013 will mark the 340th\u00a0anniversary of the approval of the first Marian community. To commemorate this anniversary, he proclaimed\u00a02013 the Year of the Marian Community. In turn, Archbishop M.\u00a0Bartolucci spoke in his homily about liturgical roots of the celebrated solemnity, its spiritual dimension, and the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church. Remembering the circumstances of the Congregation\u2019s founding and renovation, the Archbishop called its history a \u201chistory of grace.\u201d He encouraged the Marians to go forth on that road as if on \u201ca pilgrimage of grace,\u201d under the protection of the Immaculate Mary.<\/p>\n

Several members of the Vatican dicasteries, as well as rectors of the\u00a0Anselmianu<\/i>, and\u00a0Claretianum<\/i>\u00a0universities where the Marians make their studies, kindly attended the festivities along with the Roman friends of our Congregation. The celebrations continued in fraternal mood during the festive dinner.<\/p>\n

Tomasz Sekulski MIC<\/i><\/p>\n

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