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PROFESSION FOR LIFE IN BRAZIL The Brazilian Brother Alan Robert Aparecido Benevenuto made his profession for life on December 12, during the Eucharistic Celebration at the Padre Eustáquio parish church in Belo Horizonte. Brother Craudeci Moreira renewed his temporary profession at the same celebration. In his address the Superior General Brother Broer Huitema said that it was courageous of this brother to take this step because there are no candidates right now in Brazil. He let it be known that he recognized the situation: “When I made my profession for life there were few candidates in The Netherlands. It was not easy for me. Still I chose to become a brother, convinced that He called me to become a member of the Congregation. I found happiness there and fruitful collaboration. That happiness and fruitful work in the apostolic ministry I wish for you too: as a brother you will be able to lead a joyful and rich religious life. Making a reference to his recent trips to Indonesia, Kenya and East-Timor, where altogether eight brothers made their profession for life, he underscored: “Brother Alan, with you that makes a total of nine Brothers CMM. Within the Congregation you are not alone. You can count on the support of your fellow-brothers who have gone before you in what you have undertaken today. Today they pray for you.” CMM REGION CALIFORNIA SUPPRESSSED The CMM Region California has been suppressed. The region was founded in 1963 during the tenure of Superior General Brother Novatus Vinckx. Brother Emeric Goossens assumed the position of the first superior of the community. Many brothers performed educational work from the communities in Los Angeles and Oxnard. The present Regional Superior, Brother John Grever, was one of the five brothers who started in California. He returned back to The Netherlands with Brother Richard van Rooij on February 17. Both have taken up residence in the community Joannes Zwijsen in Tilburg, where they were reunited with the Brothers 8 SHORT kort nieuws NEWS Brother Alan Robert Aparecido Benevenuto with his parents after making his profession for life. William Verheijen, Godfried Kanen and Louis de Visser, who also lived and worked in California. Brother Grever succeeds Brother de Visser as General Bursar. The latter had expressed the desire to lay down this task due to his age (75). In a letter to the brothers and associate members Brother Broer Huitema wrote about Brother Louis de Visser: “Even though he was no bursar by training, he rapidly acquired the requisite knowledge and executed his task as bursar with great skill and diligence. As general bursar he has served the Congregation for fifteen years with loyalty and great devotion to duty.
SCRYPTION CLOSES ITS DOORS Museum Scryption in Tilburg closed its doors last January 10. The museum for written communication and social media has insufficient funds to keep its doors open to the public. On Sunday, January 9, the museum was opened for the last time and there was no entrance fee. Scryption blames Tilburg City Council which decided to discontinue its € 200.000,- subsidy. As of March 1, all twelve people working at the museum have been dismissed. Meanwhile the collection has been stored with a benevolent organization. Scryption has existed some 22 years and exhibited the history of writing and its application in the office. Visitors found typewriters, fountain pens, pencils, ballpoints, crown pens, copy machines, stencil machines, word processors and office furniture. Writer Willem Frederik Hermans – who died in 1995 – left his entire collection of about 200 typewriters to the museum. Scryption attracted more than 20.000 visitors each year. The knowledge and experience gained so far are transferred to a new organization named ‘Npuntnu’ (N-dot-zero). They will closely follow and make known the development of communications and social media. Npuntnul will develop such activities as exhibitions, media installations, lectures and debates, social media and education projects. The museum collection once started as a hobby collection by the teacher Brother Ferrerius van den Berg. Shortly after WWII he began his study for the diploma Calligraphy (M.O. = Secondary Education). At the same time he began to collect all kinds of objects and instruments that bore a relation to writing. This was the birth of a unique collection that grew into the ‘Schrift- en Schrijfmachinemuseum’ (Museum for Writing and Typewriters), which was initially Museum visitors at the time of the closing day. housed at the attic of the Generalate of the Brothers CMM at the Gasthuisring in Tilburg. The ever growing collection moved from place to place and eventually found a permanent home in the former Technical School, at the Spoorlaan, next to the North Brabant Nature Museum. The Tilburg City Council arranged the necessary alterations to the building and businesses with an interest in the collection provided the interior design. And so the museum with its world famous collection came into being. Sculpture of Brother Ferrerius van den Berg at Scryption Museum. Museum Scryption at the Spoorlaan, Tilburg. 9
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