March

SM First Professions

On 8 January five men took their first vows in the Society of Mary at ‘Cerdon’, the Marist International Novitiate, in Davao, Philippines. Fr Christopher Ganzon SM, the District Superior, received their vows.

Lesley Kinana (Oceania), Niklas Rodewald (USA), Hemi Ropata (NZ), Clinton Kube (Africa) and Leonard Amora (Oceania)

Please pray for them, and for the eight novices in the 2020 novitiate.

New SM Provincial in NZ

On 31 January, Fr Timothy Duckworth succeeded Fr David Kennerley as Provincial of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Fathers Kennerley and Duckworth