The new issue of Nuntia, the official bulletin of the Congregation of the Mission, is now available. This month’s editorial, Christmas: the revolution of closeness, recalls the Nativity as a missionary style: entering, dwelling, listening, becoming close, because ‘the Word does not become a programme, but a presence’.

In this issue:

• IX World Day of the Poor: with Pope Leo and 1,300 people living in poverty in the Paul VI Hall; serving at table as a “liturgy of charity” and a jubilee sign of the 400th anniversary of the CM (pp. 5–8).
• Art and devotion: the Superior General blesses the Madonna Art Museum at the Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Philadelphia), to bring faith and art into dialogue (p. 9).
• Life of the Curia and formation: meeting with student confreres in Rome and conference on Vincentian pastoral care in the digital world: from connection to relationship (pp. 10–11).
• Government and communion: visit of the Assistant to the Superior General to the Province of the East; in Paris, CEVIM meeting to revitalise the identity of the Little Company (pp. 12–13).
• Mission ad gentes: blessing of the new mission house in Nepal (De Paul Sadan) and closing of the 400th anniversary jubilee in Cameroon with priestly ordinations (pp. 15–17).
• Presence at the UN: Jim Claffey’s speech on the advocacy work of the Vincentian Family (poverty, homelessness, migration) and on the 2030 Agenda (pp. 18–20).
• Secretariat: Nominationes, Ordinationes, Necrologium (p. 22).

We invite our confreres to read, meditate on and share Nuntia in their communities and with the Vincentian Family, so that the communion and apostolic zeal that unite us in the same calling may grow.

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