Br Ramon Rosin Padilla FDP: reception of the Ministry of acolyte in Kenya.

Here are some good news from the formation house, Nairobi, Kenya.  On Saturday 23rd January during Mass in the formation house chapel at 6pm, Br Ramon Rosin Padilla FDP received the ministry of acolyte in the presence of all the confreres in Nairobi and the philosophy students.  Fr Paul Mboche Mwangi FDP, superior of the formation house, presided at the Mass and conferred the ministry to Br Ramon.  

Fr Malcolm gave the homily, saying that the Eucharist is the Body of Christ which also builds up the Body of Christ, the Church, in which all of us have our place and our role, including the ministry of acolyte.
Afterwards, all gathered in the theology house for a fraternal meal.  Br Ramon expressed his gratitude to God for the gift of this ministry and to all present and to all in the Philippines.
Br Ramon is in the third year of theology at Tangaza College and is the most advanced of the theological community.
Best wishes and prayers go to Br Ramon who is moving towards perpetual vows when God wills.

Malcolm Dyer SDP

Responsible for Theological students

Sons of Divine Providence - Nairobi - Kenya

Live Christ, Share CHRIST!

The New Year in Montalban Community was filled with great enthusiasm and thanksgiving in commemorating monthly the memorial of the Founder, St. Luigi Orione. It was a providential way indeed that we are also entering into the journey of the Silver Year in the boldness of charity that Don Orione imparts through the serving Christ and the poor.The 1^st Orionight for this year were joyfully celebrated last Saturday, January 16, 2016. Inspired by the communion of the bishops, clergy and the religious on the 26th in Cebu City for the International Eucharistic Congress, the seminary culminated the celebration of love and culture gifted to the country, the Philippines, in the 495th Jubilee of its Christianization.

“ORIONIGHT: Live Christ, Share Christ!”- taken from the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines Pastoral Exhortation on the Era of New Evangelization-was the theme of the event. The Conference of Bishops instilled by the clergy in all local churches, have declared the Year of the Eucharist and of the Family. They are acknowledging the faithful to culminate the living remembrance during the Last Supper-the Eucharist to be the fountain of sacramental values for vocations and evangelization.