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24/09/2022

On October 9 Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini will be proclaimed a saint. Today, in St. Peter’s Basilica during the Ordinary Consistory, Pope Francis announced the date on which the Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians and inspirer of the Scalabrini Secular Missionaries, will be canonized.

Born in Fino Mornasco in the province of Como in 1839, Scalabrini is still today a gift to the Church and humanity: a man in love with God and able to recognize the face of Jesus in the least of society. Deeply moved by the drama of so many Italians forced to emigrate to the United States and South America in the late 1800s, he did not remain indifferent. He gathered information, raised awareness in society and sent his missionaries and missionary sisters around the world to help and support migrants in ports, on ships and upon arrival in new countries. He is considered for this a father to all migrants and refugees.

More than a century after his death, his legacy still bears fruit: present in 39 countries, there are thousands of Scalabrinian religious and lay people following in his footsteps and serving in parishes, houses for migrants, schools, orphanages, hospitals, ecclesial bodies in conferences of bishops and dioceses, study centers, ports and borders around the world.

“Scalabrini was a bishop who dedicated himself completely to ministry in his diocese, but he also knew how to look beyond, to those who were forced to leave their homeland,” comments Father Leonir Chiarello, CS, Superior General of the Missionaries of St. Charles. “He gave a concrete response to the phenomenon of migration, involving the Church, the government, society and calling everyone to an awareness. He fought what the Holy Father today calls ‘the culture of indifference and discard.’ By proclaiming him a saint, Pope Francis invites us to have his gaze of welcome and love toward all.”

A bishop who made himself “neighbor to neighbor”; “a man of action, a spiritual man, passionate, dynamic, strong in an incarnated spirituality: he continually contemplates the Son of God who became man to reveal the Father’s love and to return renewed humanity to Him,” explains Sister Neusa de Fatima Mariano, Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians: “The canonization of our founder motivates us to embark on a path of renewal of our Scalabrinian consecrated life, in the call to the centrality of Jesus Christ and in the renewed commitment to mission with and for migrants and refugees.”

“This news made us very happy for the whole Church and for all migrants,” comments Regina Widmann, general director of the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries. “His prophetic vision will become better known, that is, the conviction that precisely in the hard ground of emigration a treasure is hidden: the possibility that different and far away peoples may find themselves close and recognize themselves as part of the one human family.”

24/09/2022

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On October 9 Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini will be proclaimed a saint. Today, in St. Peter’s Basilica during the Ordinary Consistory, Pope Francis announced the date on which the Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians and inspirer of the Scalabrini Secular Missionaries, will be canonized.

Born in Fino Mornasco in the province of Como in 1839, Scalabrini is still today a gift to the Church and humanity: a man in love with God and able to recognize the face of Jesus in the least of society. Deeply moved by the drama of so many Italians forced to emigrate to the United States and South America in the late 1800s, he did not remain indifferent. He gathered information, raised awareness in society and sent his missionaries and missionary sisters around the world to help and support migrants in ports, on ships and upon arrival in new countries. He is considered for this a father to all migrants and refugees.

More than a century after his death, his legacy still bears fruit: present in 39 countries, there are thousands of Scalabrinian religious and lay people following in his footsteps and serving in parishes, houses for migrants, schools, orphanages, hospitals, ecclesial bodies in conferences of bishops and dioceses, study centers, ports and borders around the world.

“Scalabrini was a bishop who dedicated himself completely to ministry in his diocese, but he also knew how to look beyond, to those who were forced to leave their homeland,” comments Father Leonir Chiarello, CS, Superior General of the Missionaries of St. Charles. “He gave a concrete response to the phenomenon of migration, involving the Church, the government, society and calling everyone to an awareness. He fought what the Holy Father today calls ‘the culture of indifference and discard.’ By proclaiming him a saint, Pope Francis invites us to have his gaze of welcome and love toward all.”

A bishop who made himself “neighbor to neighbor”; “a man of action, a spiritual man, passionate, dynamic, strong in an incarnated spirituality: he continually contemplates the Son of God who became man to reveal the Father’s love and to return renewed humanity to Him,” explains Sister Neusa de Fatima Mariano, Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians: “The canonization of our founder motivates us to embark on a path of renewal of our Scalabrinian consecrated life, in the call to the centrality of Jesus Christ and in the renewed commitment to mission with and for migrants and refugees.”

“This news made us very happy for the whole Church and for all migrants,” comments Regina Widmann, general director of the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries. “His prophetic vision will become better known, that is, the conviction that precisely in the hard ground of emigration a treasure is hidden: the possibility that different and far away peoples may find themselves close and recognize themselves as part of the one human family.”

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24/09/2022

“Migration is a natural fact and an inescapable necessity”
Emigration is a natural and providential phenomenon. It is a safety valve given by God to our troubled society. It is a saving force that is far more powerful than all the moral and material restraints devised by legislators to ensure public order and to safeguard the life and property of its citizens. We all know the proverb: “Mala suadens fames” (hunger leads to crime). Who could hold in line a nation convulsed by the pangs of hunger, with no hope of finding its daily bread elsewhere? For people who see the suffering caused by emigration and blithely ask: “Why are so many people leaving?” there is a very simple answer. In most cases, emigration is not a pleasure but an inescapable necessity. Of course, among the emigrants there are some bad individuals, who are vagrant or depraved; but they are a minority. The vast majority, not to say all, of those who emigrate to far-off America do not fit that description. They are not fleeing from Italy because they don’t like work but because there isn’t any. They just don’t know how they and their families can make ends meet. One day a wonderful man, an exemplary Christian, from a little mountain village where I was making my pastoral visitation, came to see me and to ask for my blessing and a memento for himself and his family on the eve of their departure for America. When I demurred, he countered with this simple but distressing dilemma: “Either you steal, or you emigrate. I am not allowed to steal, nor do I want to, because God and the law forbid it. But in this place, there is no way I can earn a living for me and my children. So, what can I do? I have to emigrate, it’s the only thing left. . ..” I didn’t know what to answer. With a full heart, I blessed him and entrusted him to the protection of God. But once more I became convinced that emigration is a necessity, a heroic and ultimate cure one has to accept, just as a sick person accepts painful surgery to avoid death. Religion and emigration -- these are the only two means for saving society from a great catastrophe in the future: one by channeling surplus population toward other continents, the other by soothing with comforting hopes the desperate sorrow of those poor people.
Scalabrini, The Living Voice, 1887

03/09/2022

15/07/2022

12 Luglio 1888
[Mons. Scalabrini benedice i suoi primi missionari partenti per le americhe]
Beato Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
1839-1905

07/09/2021

All are invited!

2nd online seminar, "Towards an ever wider we" organized by the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo-Scalabrinians, General Animation for the Apostolate
Date: September 25, 2021

07/09/2021

Towards an ever wider "we"

Towards an ever wider “we” is the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR). An appeal to build a universal “we” —may this be achieved first and foremost within the Church, called upon to create communion within diversity.

Together we make a difference!

The theme chosen for the 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees is “Forced like Jesus Christ to flee” to focus on the internally displaced people.

07/09/2021

The theme chosen for the 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees is “Forced like Jesus Christ to flee” to focus on the internally displaced people.

02/09/2021

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01/09/2021

In the new video, asks us to learn to live together in peace and harmony, building a future enriched by diversity and intercultural relations.
People who work together every day in diversity are featured; they demonstrate the possibility of creating this "multi-coloured" future.

In the new video, asks us to learn to live together in peace and harmony, building a future enriched by diversity and intercultural relations.Pe...

12/08/2021

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27/07/2021

18/10/2020

October 19

Read.
And the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?
Lk 12:13-21

Reflect.
What do you value most in life?

Act.
Spend your life building treasure in heaven.

27/09/2020

It is necessary to cooperate in order to build.

That is what the Apostle Paul tells the community of Corinth: “I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgement” (1 Cor 1:10).

Building the Kingdom of God is a duty common to all Christians, and for this reason it is necessary that we learn to cooperate, without yielding to the temptation to jealousy, discord and division. In the present context it should be reiterated: “This is not a time for
self-centredness, because the challenge we are facing is shared by all, without distinguishing between persons” (Urbi et Orbi Message, 12 April 2020).

To preserve our common home and make it conform more and more to God’s original plan, we must commit ourselves to ensuring international cooperation, global solidarity and local commitment, leaving no one excluded.
Pope Francis
Message WDMR2020


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26/09/2020

The 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR)
Sunday 27 September 2020.

25/09/2020

The 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) will be celebrated next Sunday 27 September 2020.

With the theme “Forced like Jesus Christ to flee”, Pope Francis urges us to discover the reality of internally displaced people more deeply and invites us to celebrate the WDMR in our community.