Le 9 avril 2013, notre communauté missionnaire de Santa Cruz a fêté le seizième anniversaire de sa présence en Bolivie. Au cours de ces années, nos confrères Missionnaires de la Sainte Famille (MSF) provenant de différents pays s’adonnent à diverses activités : animation missionnaire, pastorale de la famille et promotion de la vie religieuse. Nous puisons quelques précisions dans le numéro d’avril 2013 de leur revue « Boli-Noticias ».
Fr. THEO KLOMBERG was born in Vragender, Holland, on 25 September 1930. He absolved his noviciate in Nieuwkerk, where he took his first religious vows on 8 September 1951. He was ordained priest in Oudenbosch on 28 July 1957. Two years later his provincial superior sent him as missionary to Chile. There he worked among the campesinos in the very poor region of Talca for twenty years.
Monsignor Wilhelmus Johannes Demarteau, former bishop of Banjarmasin, in Indonesia, died at seven in the morning on Wednesday 5 December. The late bishop, who had taken part in Vatican II, was born in Horn in the Dutch diocese of Roermond on 24 January 1917. He took his first vows on 8 September 1936 and was ordained priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Family on 27 July 1941 at the age of 24. He worked at the “Open Deur” (porta aperta), in Amsterdam until July 1946, a charitable work of the Church for the poor.
“Jesus, Mary, Joseph, give us the humility of your hidden life. That, penetrated like you by the greatness of God, we may give to him all the glory that he deserves for the gifts he gave us, not attributing any merit to ourselves.” - Fr. Jean Berthier (CI : 259)
