Thursday, July 12, 2007

Who are the Sons of divine Providence




Who are the sons of divine Providence?
The Sons of Divine Providence is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, founded in Italy in 1893. The congregation takes inspiration from its founder Saint Luigi Orione, whose motto was "Do good to all, help everybody, harm nobody". Saint Luigi Orione is remembered for his commitment to social justice and the service of those in need, a service guide and inspired by the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Don Orione began his work with orphans and street children in the city of Tortona in north-west Italy while he was still a student. He was a man of enormous energy and enterprise and by the time of his death in 1940 Don Orione and his followers had established services for the care of elderly, disabled and disadvantaged people all over Italy, as well as in Poland, Brazil, Argentina and Palestine. Today over a thousand priests and brothers of the congregation are working in more than 30 countries around the world providing services for thousands of people in a variety of health and social care projects.
The Sons of Divine Providence arrived here in the Ph ilippines in the year 1991 and was established in Payatas A, Mother of Divine Providence Parish, where it runs several feeding programs, scholarships, health clinics and several other charitable programs for the poor.
And in the year 1996, the congregations established its second community in Montalban Rizal. Saint Luigi Orione Formation House as it is called, is house located inside a bigger compound with a House for the abandoned disabled children Cottolengo Filipino. The formation center caters for the Formation of Minor Seminarians as well as Major or professed Religious

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