Let us welcome the Easter of 2024 with the spirit of the Claretian Jubilee year that we are now celebrating. The theme...
Congregation
Online Meeting of the General Government with all the Major Superiors of the Congregation
Rome, Italy. Toward the end of its intensive sessions, the General Government convoked an online meeting with all...
The Snowball Effect of Leadership Training Session
Yaoundé, Cameroon. From March 1 to 14, 2023, a leadership training session was conducted in Yaoundé. The session...
Encounter of Prefects of Formation, Guatemala (continuation)
Guatemala City, Guatemala. The second day of the Encounter of Prefects Formation started with Holy Mass. After the...
Encounter of Prefects of Formation
Guatemala, Guatemala. The Encounter of the Prefects of Formation of our Congregation (from 13 to 22nd May 2019) along...
Religious Life in the Community
Vatican City. On March 19, Pope Francis signed an Apostolic Letter in the form of “Motu Proprio” entitled “Communis...
FOUNDATION IN PRADES
From November 1868 to October 1879, our Congregation found a safe haven in southern France to pass the revolutionary...
The Claretian Family Together in Panama
Panama City, Panama. The consecrated men and women as well as the lay people, members of the different branches of the...
New General Mission Procurator: Fr. Lord M. Winner, CMF
Rome, Italy. We communicate to everyone that after the consultation meeting of the General Council on 24 December...
First message from our freed friends and brothers
Dear confreres in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We write to thank you for your mark of solidarity to us during the...
Our Brothers Are Free
Yaoundé, Cameroon. We thank the Lord for the liberation of our brother missionaries in Cameroon who were abducted on...
Three Claretian Missionaries Seized in Cameroon
Rome, Italy. In the early morning of Saturday, 24 November 2018, Father General and Secretary General received the...
Fr. Mathew Vattamattam, CMF, Elected Member of the Union of Superiors General (USG) Executive Council
Ariccia, Italy. Father General, Mathew Vattamatam, CMF, was elected Member of the Executive Council of the Union of...
HUNDRED YEARS OF CLARETIAN PRESENCE IN AGURAIN-SALVATIERRA
On November 21, 1918, Fr. Julián Munárriz, provincial superior of Castile, and Fr. Lorenzo Alabert, superior of the...
Congregation in Thanksgiving
Rome, Italy. From New Zealand to Argentina, the whole Congregation was in festive and thanksgiving mood for the life...
The Life and Mission of Our Congregation Continue: Erection of Three New Independent Delegations and Appointment of the New Provincial Government of Fatima
Rome Italy. The following decisions have been taken and adopted during the first week of intensive sessions of the...
“The Claretian Year” in the Making
Alpedrete, Spain. The Team of the Claretian Spirituality Center (CESC) and of the Forge Center for Claretian Renewal,...
New Mission in New Zealand
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. The great enterprise continues! The Congregation has opened a new Mission in New Zealand...
Commemorating Adversities that Opened Unexpected Horizons: 150 Years of a Revolutionary Storm that Transformed the Congregation
On September 18, 1868, the so-called Glorious Revolution broke out. On the 30th of the same month, Fr. Claret left for...
Thanksgiving Mass of His Eminence Aquilino Cardinal Bocos, CMF at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome
Rome, Italy. Today, at 10 am, at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, His Eminence Aquilino...
Our Eldest Brother, Fr. Pedro Fuentes CMF, Turns 100!
Colmenar Viejo, Spain. April 29 is a great day to thank God for the gift of life and person of our brother Pedro...
Official closing of the “Xifré Year” in Vic
Vic, España. On Saturday, November 4, the day after the memory of the death of Fr. Josep Xifré i Mussach, cmf, third...
Closing of the “Xifré Year” in the General Curia
Rome Italy. On November 4, the Community of the General Curia in Rome held a formative and spiritual day on the...
Thanksgiving for the Beatification
Barcelona, Spain. On Sunday morning, 22 October, the beatification acts of 109 Claretian martyrs with a...
Prepared Address of Pope Francis TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE MISSIONARY SONS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Dear Claretian Missionaries, Welcome! It is a joy for me to meet with you. I thank the Superior General, Fr Mathew...
Pope Francis to the Congregation
Spontaneous words of the Holy Father to the XXV General Chapter of the Congregation Good morning and thank you very...
First Message of Fr Mathew Vattamattam as Superior General
OPENING REFLECTION – XXV GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES
Dear Brothers Welcome to this Chapter community. Our brethren have entrusted us with the mission to discover what the...
“Missionaries”, Circular Letter from Fr. General
Rome. Fr. Josep M. Abella, CMF, Superior General, has written the Circular Letter “Missionaries” on the occasion of...
100 Years of the Claretian Presence in Trieste
Trieste, Italy. The Claretian community of Trieste is preparing to celebrate the centenary of its presence in this...
The House of Segovia Celebrates 150 Years
Segovia, Spain. It will soon be 150 years since the foundation of the house in Segovia. It was the 22nd of November...
Congratulations! On the Feast of St. Anthony Mary Claret
Rome. The General Government and those of us entrusted with the mission of information wish the whole Congregation and...
“Claretianum” in Rome Begins the Academic Year
Rome. The academic year for 2011-2012 was inaugurated on October 21st at the Theological Institute for Religious Life...
Meeting of Provincials and Prefects of Formation of the South Cone
Cochabamba, Bolivia. On the 1st and 2nd of October, at the Cochabamba house of formation, the Provincials and Prefects...
To Feel as Our Own the Needs of the Whole Congregation
Bangalore, India. The Meeting of the Economes of the Major Provinces of the Congregation, convoked by Fr. Domingo...
The Qualified Service of the Congregation in the Academic Environment
Roma. From September 28th to October 1st an encounter of the Directors of the Centers of Superior Studies, which are...
Encounter of Fith Year Claretians in Central America
Roatán, Honduras. From the 14th to the 19th of September, on the island of Roatán (Honduras), the formation Encounter...
“They held all in common”
Bangalore, India. Pursuant to this motto, inspired by Acts 2:44, the Economes of the Major Organisms of the...
The Eucharist-Life Symposium Begins in Segovia
Segovia, Spain. On the 12th of September the Eucharist-Life Symposium began at the”San Juan de la Cruz” House of...