Celebration of Brother Bernard Guesdon's 25 years in Rome
- FSG communications
- Apr 1
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On Saturday, March 01, 2025, the Generalate community celebrated Brother Bernard's 25 years of service as archivist of our General Curia in Rome.
Although the sun had been lazy all day, and a fine rain had occasionally tried to make itself felt, Brother Bernard, the sunshine of the day, was well surrounded. The entire community of course, Brothers and Sisters, and also, to honour the archivist and historian, a good number of Brothers of Christian Instruction from Ploërmel, two Sisters of Wisdom from Via Merulana and a large delegation of Montfort Missionaries were present. The mass was presided over and largely sung by Father Antoine of Padua, chaplain of our community, during these weeks.
The mass opened with the hymn of the Jubilee 2000, Christ Yesterday, Christ Today, and ended with the well-known Magnificat ‘My soul proclaims the Lord’, followed by the customary photo of all the participants gathered around Brother Bernard in the chapel. After the mass, to lead up to the aperitif, a short 8-minute video prepared by Brother Paul Texier was screened, presenting the various faces of Brother Bernard. Firstly, the Bernard born in Mouchamps, then successively Bernard Montfortian Gabrielist at the novitiate in Boistissandeau (Ardelay), Swiss Bernard in Fribourg (School of Faith), the African Bernard from Senegal and the Congo, and finally Roman Bernard: in short, an eternal Bernard in our memories and in our hearts.
Before presenting him with an icon of Saint Bernard, Brother Dionigi Taffarello, Superior General, addressed congratulations and thanks to Brother Bernard from the entire Congregation and the Montfortian Family for his 25 years of service as archivist and for his life's witness:‘On behalf of the entire Congregation and the Montfortian Family, on behalf of the entire Generalate community and all those present here and on my own behalf, dear Brother Bernard, I thank you for everything you have done over the past 25 years and for the way in which you have done it, and thank you for the example you have set for us through your testimony.’
This was followed by a meal for about forty people, as abundant as it was delicious, interspersed with a song composed by Brother Jean-Marie Thior and performed with the assistance of Brother Sébastien Ndabunganiye.
Bro. Sébastien NDABUNGANIYE, SG
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