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The English Vicariate organised a “Come and See” weekend to explore the Gift of Religious life and Priesthood, from 24th February to 26th February 2023 at Shallowford Retreat House.

For three days, from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 July, Fr. Gaspar Fernández Pérez SCJ, assisted by Fr. Simone Panzeri SCJ and Fr. Stervin Selvadass SCJ, General Councillor for the Formation, entertained the young participants in the international session on Betharramite spirituality.

On 30 August, at the Generalate in Rome, the Superior General, Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ, convened the General Council to officially open the consultations coming from all the Vicariates of the Congregation for the appointment of Regional Superiors, Regional Vicars and of the Regional Bursars, as required by the Rule of Life.

Tuesday 2 April - Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ, Superior General, on a canonical visit to the Vicariate of Argentina and Uruguay, went to the Province of Tucumán to meet some descendants of the family of Fr. Augusto Etchecopar.

On Thursday, December 6, in the chapel of the Adiapodoumé community, Hermann and Désiré have officially been welcomed in our study house as pre-postulants.

After arriving in India on 19 May, Fr. Enrico, SCJ, Regional Superior, accompanied by Fr. Antony Siluvai, Vicariate Bursar, spent the first days visiting the missions in Assam: Hojai, Langting and Hattikali,(mission centres with attached school entrusted by the bishops to Betharram); and Simaluguri and Dansila (school and parish founded by Betharram).

“The founding Father told us: “We...belong to a community whose origin, purpose and ministries are quite sublime; a community that came to be formed despite our feeble selves – I mean that despite all the obstacles that we put up with, and that we continue to put up with in many ways – a community that finds itself in very intimate circumstances before God, the Church and itself ” (Spiritual Doctrine 243)." (Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ)

On the occasion of the celebration of Saint Michael’s day, the religious of the Vicariate of France and Spain gathered for an assembly at Betharram.

You can read online the number 1 of February (2023) of the magazine of the Vicariate of Argentina-Uruguay “Betharramitas”.

On June 28, in Chiang Mai Cathedral, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a solemn concelebration took place, presided over by the Bishop of the Diocese of Chiang Rai, Mgr. Joseph Vuthilert Haelom.