Dear Brothers,   It is our sad duty to inform you about the passing away of Bro. Ton Simons on April 17, 2018. The text of the mourning card reads as follows: "  Congregation of the Brothers of the Immaculate Conception of Mary        ' Make me enter          into Your place of rest and peace'  With sadness we inform you that we had to say goodbye to our dear family member and faithful fellow brother  

      May 2018   14 Petrus Suparyanto (50) Maastricht-Emmaus. 15 Ignatius Ngadiso (70) Semarang-Sultan Agung.   June 2018   23 Petrus Wayan Parsa (60) Yogyakarta-Panembahan Senopati.   July 2018   01 Fransiskus Xav. Djiya Atmadja (60) Ketapang   07 Ton van Baaren (70) Vlaardingen   11 Joseph Zoyah (50) Damongo

Herewith we present to you the second issue of IGC in 2018, which will inform you about the following: *  Reflection on Easter *  The General Chapter 2018 *  FIC Jubilee March 2018 *  Multi-day Meeting General Council *  Provincial Chapters 2018 *  News from Province Ghana: First Session of the Provincial Chapter 2018 *  In Memoriam: Bro. Mat Paulssen *  Special Birthdays in the coming months

Pope: Relationship with Jesus is our own personal love story. By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 8, 2018 / 04:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On the Second Sunday of Easter, also known as Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis said that our relationship with God is a personal one, filled with his love and mercy, where we proclaim like St. Thomas: “My Lord and my God!” “To enter into Jesus’ wounds is to contemplate the boundless ....

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE
 OF THE HOLY FATHER 
FRANCIS ON THE CALL TO HOLINESS 
IN TODAY’S WORLD     1. “REJOICE AND BE GLAD” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. The call to ....

Holy Father’s Homily on Divine Mercy Sunday (Full Text). ‘To experience love, we need to begin there: to let ourselves be forgiven.’ APRIL 8, 2018ZENIT STAFFPAPAL TEXTS     Here is the text of the Pope’s Homily at Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 8, 2018, provided by the Vatican: In today’s Gospel, we hear, over and over, the word “see”.  The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord (Jn 20:20).  They tell Thomas: “We have seen the Lord” (v. 25).  But ....

Pope Francis proclaimed his Easter Blessing “Urbi et Orbi’ – to the City of Rome and the world – at noon on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018, from the central loggia of the Vatican Basilica. Here is the text of his address, provided by the Vatican. Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Easter! Jesus is risen from the dead! This message resounds in the Church the world over, along with the singing of the Alleluia: Jesus is Lord; ....

Gratitude for being Brother FIC     My vocation story   Looking back on my vocation story as Brother FIC, I felt that my vocation story was so simple.  The first time I knew about the FIC Congregation when I read National Catholic magazine “HIDUP” and Local Catholic magazine “PRABA” in 1982.  Many time I read that magazines I read some articles which written by some FIC Brothers such as Bro. Nicolaus Prasadja, Bro. Antonius Hadiwardaya, ....