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News Bulletin from the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission

CLAPVI South-Itinerant Missionary Group

As part of the process of reconfiguration of the Congregation of the Mission, the Provinces of

Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile (CLAPVI-South), are organizing an interprovincial itin-erant missionary team. Each province promises to assign a missionary during the next twoyears (2014-2015) to take part in a rotating mission of four months duration in each province.

The order of missions and places is as follows:

Argentina: from March to July 2014Ecuador: from August to December 2014Peru: from March to July 2015Chile (Bolivia): from August to December 2015.

The assigned missionaries will take part in a missiology course in ITEPAL (Pastoral Theological Institute for Latin America), that has its headquarters in Bo-gota. This course will be from October to November 2013. During this time, they will draft a missionary project in relation to their future work.

Jan Havlik – martyr, twice condemned because of his faith

On Sunday, 9 June 2013, Msgr. Stanislav Zvolenský, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bratislava, openedthe diocesan phase of the process of beatification of Jan Havlik, a seminarian of the Congregation of the Mission, who was captured and tortured for being a seminarian and for studying theology clandes-tinely.

In a solemn ceremony in the parish church of Skalica (a city in the west of Slovakia), the Vice-Postulator of the above-mentioned process, Augustin Slaninka, CM, presented to the Archbishop therequest to begin the process. The Chancellor of the Archdiocesan Curia, Msgr. Tibor Hajdu, read theconsent of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the Decree opening the process promoted by

the Archbishop, with which the cause of beatification was accepted and opened.In the above-mentioned ceremony, Jozef Noga, Visitor of Slovakia; confreres; Daughters of Charity;the pastor of Skalica, Roman Stachovic; and the coadjutor of the town of Dubovce, where Jan Havlik was born in 1928, took part.

Information on Jan Havlik’s life:

Jan Havlik was born in 1928 in a town called Dubovce. He was the firstborn son of Carlos and JustinaHavlik. In those times, he lived in material poverty but in an environment of spiritual wealth and thedeep faith of his parents and other relatives, especially of his Aunt Angela – Sister Modesta, DC.

In 1943, he went to Banska Bystica and began as a student in the apostolic school (minor seminary)sponsored by the Vincentian confreres. In August 1944, sedition against the German troops began andthe pupils had to return to their homes. At the end of the Second World War, he returned to BanskaBystica and continued his studies, completing his baccalaureate in May 1949. At that time, the Com-munist government decided to terminate and liquidate religion and Catholic education. This wouldalso affect Jan’s life.

Jan entered the Internal Seminary on the night of 3-4 May 1950. The police came and took the semi-narians into forced labor in the construction of an artificial lake. Their intention was to break the willsof the prisoners. This ended in August and Jan wanted to continue theological studies clandestinely,in order to be ordained a priest. The Vincentian confreres used a factory to form him clandestinely.In October 1951, the police captured him together with six others. In 1953, after 15 months of investi-gation and torture, he was condemned to ten years for the crime of high treason for studying theology.He was sent to serve his sentence in a uranium mine. In 1958, they accused him a second time: of missionary activity among his fellow prisoners. He was condemned to an additional year. He wastortured physically and psychologically to the point of being sent to a hospital in 1962 (without thepossibility of freeing him in an amnesty) with his health broken. Jan Havlik died on 27 December 1965 at the age of 37.

His example of life calls all of us to be faithful to our missionary vocation in spite of any oppositionand to live our faith honestly and firmly. Jan Havlik suffered very much for his conviction and for hismissionary vocation. We ask God to elevate him as soon as possible to the glory of the altar and re-ward him for the total sacrifice of his life. Pray, confreres, for this intention, that the process of beati-fication of our confrere, Jan Havlik, may move forward.At the end of June, the young persons of JMV organized in Dubovce a day called Johnyfest to spreadveneration and devotion to him.



News Bulletin from the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission

Nominationes / Confirmationes

KAMAU WANDERI Francis Sac Occ 25/05/2013

RAMOS MÉNDEZ José Alberto Sac Cae 15/06/2013

MAFANIKIO Simon Sac InM 20/06/2013

NYAMILONDA Elias Sac InM 20/06/2013

HADDAD Ziad Nom: 4/09/2013

Begins on: 6/01/2013 Visitor Middle East Provinse

STERLING MOTTA Luis Alfonso Nom: 5/15/2013

Begins on: 7/18/2013

Director DC

La Milagrosa: Bogotá-Venezuela

DUARTE ALONSO Pedro Juan Nom: 6/12/2013

Begins on: 7/21/2013

Director DC

Nuestra Señora de la Misión-AméricaSur

WALKER Gilbert R. Nom: 6/12/2013

Begins on: 7/16/2013 Director DC

El Caribe

Ordinationes

Nomen Cond. Dies ob. Prov. Aet. Voc.

GRASS Aloysius P. Sac 04/06/2013 Orl 90 68

REINTJES Jacques Sac 12/06/2013 Hol 73 52

SILVA UNAY Mariano de Sac 19/06/2013 Phi 78 55

WOŹNIAK Jerzy Sac 19/06/2013 Pol 63 45

VAN BAVEL Kees Sac 23/06/2013 Hol 81 61

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