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September/October 2010

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One of the ways that Scarboro Missions has been collaborating with other missionary Societies for the last number of years is by hosting men and women religious who come to Canada for language studies, sabbaticals, and post-graduate training. For the most part the men live in residence with us at Scarboro’s central house in Scarborough, and the Sisters of Notre Dame have kindly welcomed the Missionaries of St. Teresa from Latin America into their home a few kilometres away (see feature on page 8). For us it is important that you our benefactors be aware that you are supporting not only the work of Scarboro Missions but also the ongoing formation of many missionaries from other Societies. We would like to tell you about some of them who have come to Canada in the last year and a half for studies and where they are now.

Fr. Emmanuel Mbam

Fr Emmanuel Mbam is a missionary priest of the St. Paul’s Missionary Society of Nigeria. He has just completed a doctorate in theology at Regis College in Toronto and will now return to their seminary in Abuja, Nigeria, as a member of the formation team.

L-R: Antonio Gonzalez, Carlos Dario Mejia, Marco Antonio Ascencio, Rafael Tadeo visit Niagara Falls.

Antonio Gonzalez, Rafael Tadeo, and Marco Antonio Ascencio are seminarians with the Gaudalupe Missioners of Mexico. They have been part of the Scarboro community while studying at George Brown College in Toronto. In March of this year they left for their new mission in Japan where they will be studying Japanese for two years before completing their theological studies in a Japanese seminary.

Carlos Dario Mejia is a psychologist from El Salvador who is now a candidate for the missionary priesthood. Once he completes his studies in English here in Toronto, he will go to Kenya to join other seminarians with the Quebec Mission Society in their formation house in Nairobi.

Fr. Juan Pablo Aguilar

Fr. Juan Pablo Aguilar is a newly ordained priest with the Yarumal missionaries in Colombia who spent the better part of this year studying English in preparation for mission work in Thailand. He is presently in Bangkok studying Thai and living with missioners of Italy’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.

L-R: Fr. Jack Lynch, Scarboro’s Superior General, with Fr. Juan Solorzano and seminarian Fernando Arango.

Fr. Juan Solorzano is a missionary priest from the Yarumal Missionary Society of Colombia. After nine years in Cambodia, Juan came to Toronto last year and spent a sabbatical renewing himself in theology and spirituality at St. Michael’s College. He is now back in Cambodia living in an indigenous community near the border with Vietnam.

Fernando Arango is a seminarian from Colombia with the Yarumal missioners. He just completed a year of studies in English in Toronto and is now studying Khmer and doing his pastoral experience with a native priest in Cambodia. Fernando will be ordained to the diaconate in June and hopefully to the priesthood in December of this year.

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