Ahead of the 2024 Feast Day celebrations of Blessed Joseph Allamano - the founder of the Consolata Missionaries on February 16, Fr James Bhola Lengarin IMC, the superior general of the congregation has written a fraternal message calling for living in ‘charity’ with another and discovering “Fraternal love as a fundamental and unavoidable priority for becoming a family of consecrated persons.”In his message titled “Our Family: Fraternal Love,” Fr Lengarin notes that the general governments of IMC and MC have chosen Blessed Allamano as the protector for the triennium 2024 to 2026, which will culminate in a centenary celebration of the founder on February 16, 2026.
Instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997, the World Day of Consecrated Life recognizes religious and members of societies of apostolic life on the feast of.
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