Sagana: Formation course contributes to human and spiritual growth The Bethany House Spirituality Center in Sagana, Kenya, host from September 8 to October 8, 2025, an ongoing formation course for a group of young Consolata missionaries with 10 or more years of priestly ordination.
Forty days mass for Fr. Antonio Vismara and Fr. Gebregzabher Gebru According to the Ethiopia tradition a mass is celebrated 40 days after the burial of the deceased. On October 13, 2025, we celebrated the mass in remembrance of both Fr. Gebregziabher Gebru and Fr. Antonio Vismara, who both died in the month of September.
Madagascar: Interview with Fr. Jean Tuluba, IMC After a brief pause, we resume our Anthology of Consolata Missionary Experience in Africa, a journey across the 11 countries where the Consolata Missionaries are present. These missions are organized into seven circumscriptions: the South Africa–Eswatini Delegation, the Mozambique–Angola Region, the Tanzania–Madagascar Region, the Kenya–Uganda Region (the mother region), the Ethiopia Region, the Ivory Coast Delegation, and the DR Congo Region.
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Uganda: 40 Years of the Consolata Parish of Bweyogerere The parish of Our Lady Consolata in Bweyogerere (Uganda) celebrated on September 28, 2025, the 40th anniversary of its foundation. The Eucharist was presided over by Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, Apostolic Nuncio emeritus to Belgium-Luxembourg, representing Monsignor Paul Ssemwogerere, Archbishop of Kampala.
Jubilee Around the World: Father Danilo Cantillo, “Being Witnesses of Hope” “I am a missionary by vocation, but a nurse by profession. My formative journey was about moving from profession to vocation. So I left my work as a nurse and began studying philosophy in Bogotá. Then I completed the Novitiate in Bucaramanga, an extraordinary experience because I learned who the Consolata Missionaries are.”
Course G25: To be Faithful Witnesses of the Gospel From September 1 to 27 in Rome, the General Office for Formation held the second ongoing formation course for a group of Consolata Missionaries celebrating their Jubilee, who in this six-year period are marking 25 years of priestly ordination and/or religious profession.
Evangelization in the digital world and the offices of the Institute “The world is in constant change, and we do not know what comes next. It is undergoing a continuous process of metamorphosis, which entails ongoing challenges.” With these words, Fr. Fabio Pasqualetti, dean of the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University, introduced the theme of “Evangelization in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): challenges and opportunities”.
New Bishops Attend a Firmation Course in the Vatican From September 4 to 11, seventy-eight recently ordained bishops took part in the training course organized by the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches). Among them were two Consolata missionaries: Bishop Peter Makau, Bishop of Isiolo, and Bishop Jackson Murugara, IMC, Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Meru in Kenya.
Walking in the footsteps of St. Joseph Allamano The group of Consolata Missionaries celebrating their jubilee gathered in Rome for the ongoing formation course, on the 17th of September 2025, embarked on three-day pilgrimage to Turin, the native city of St. Joseph Allamano, the Founder.
Disciplinary norms in Consecrated Life In recent years the code of Canon Law has seen some changes regarding Religious Life in the catholic Church. This theme was included in the program of the ongoing formation course for a group of Consolata Missionaries celebrating their jubilee, held in Rome at the General House.Articles
The Beauty of the Mission in Asia In memory of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, patroness of the missions, and at the beginning of this missionary month, which we celebrate in the Jubilee Year with various events of animation, I am pleased and grateful to share some reflections on my visit to Asia from September 9 to October 4, 2025.
Saint Joseph Allamano and his passion for study For aggregation to the College of Doctors of the Theological Faculty of Turin, two exams were required: a private one (discussion on a thesis and then a half-hour lecture on an assigned topic) and a public one. Fr. Joseph Allamano took the private exam on December 22, 1876 and the public one on June 12, 1877.
Saint Joseph Allamano: 8. Holiness and the “something more” “The search for quality of life, the effort to do well the good and thus be “extraordinary in the ordinary”, the “active silence”, the energy and enthusiasm, were always the characteristic aspects of his style of holiness which, speaking to his missionaries, he then qualified as “our holiness”.
The Legacy of Father Antonio Vismara, Formator of missionaries Father Antonio Vismara (1942–2005), Consolata missionary, born in Ossona, Milan, left behind a legacy of dedication and service, especially in the formation of young seminarians. His time at the Theological Seminary of Allamano House in Nairobi, Kenya, between 1997 and 2006, had a significant impact on those he formed, transforming the house into a family, as envisioned by our Founder and Father, St. Joseph Allamano.
Ethiopia pays tribute to Father Antonio Vismara We give thanks to the Lord for the life and vocation of Father Antonio Vismara, a Consolata missionary and faithful witness to the Gospel, who returned to the Father's house on September 20, 2025, in Rivoli. He was 83 years old, having spent 59 years of religious profession and 53 years of priesthood.
Purpose of the Centenary celebrations of our Founder The 100th anniversary of our Founder’s death (February 16, 2026) presents an extraordinary opportunity, almost a sign of Providence, to examine the authenticity and generosity of our love and purpose for him, and our desire to renew ourselves in fidelity to his charism.
In Ukraine with the Relic of Allamano Together with Father Luca Bovio, recently appointed Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ukraine, we made a visit and journey to this land, also bringing with us a relic of Saint Joseph Allamano to be donated to the bishop of the diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia.