THE MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS

Following the death of Don Stefano Gobbi (June 29, 2011), under the impulse of Fr. Quartilio Gabrielli, Fr. Gobbi's closest collaborator for many years up to his death, in support of the Marian Movement of Priests, for practical reasons and in order to preserve the founding charism, a "Private Association of the Faithful" was established in the Diocese of Como, to which canonical legal personality is also conferred with the approval of a statute in 2013, updated in 2024.

 

In June 2013, Fr Laurent Larroque in agreement with the superiors of his religious community accepted to be the International Coordinator of the Marian Movement of Priests, MMP. In 2019 Fr. Laurent was asked by his superiors to return to his community and be present full-time which he did out of obedience.

On June 27, 2019, Don Luca Pescatori during the International Spiritual Retreat of the MMP in Collevalenza, Italy, was elected the new International Coordinator of the MMP. Since then Don Luca has been fulfilling the assignment of Coordinator as much as he has been allowed by his Bishop.  

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During the well-known global difficulties of 2020-2021, in many countries the cenacles also spread via the internet, involving numerous people who did not yet know the spirit of the MSM; from this period of difficulty many family cenacles were born, and the bond between the members of the MSM who live in different parts of the world has grown.

In 2022, the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the MSM in Fatima, thanksgiving cenacles presided over by diocesan bishops were celebrated in many Countries.