At each stop, the program included personal conversations with confreres, meetings with communities and districts, participation in parish celebrations, and encounters with parishioners. Through these visits, Fr. Yasinto gained firsthand insight into the ministries, challenges, and pastoral contexts of the Province.

The visitation began at St. Gabriel Mission House in Maria Enzersdorf, a place of deep historical significance for the Society. Fr. Yasinto described the experience as spiritually moving, recalling how generations of missionaries had once been formed there and sent to different continents. The visit then continued across Austria, including Bischofshofen, Wels, and Vorarlberg, where he met confreres engaged in parish ministry, youth work, school chaplaincy, and pastoral accompaniment. At St. Rupert Missionary Private High School in Bischofshofen, the annual “Steyler Week” offered a vivid example of missionary presence among the young, with its rich program organized by SVD confreres and SSpS sisters.

In Switzerland, the visitation focused both on pastoral work and on the future of the SVD presence. Meetings in eastern Switzerland highlighted parish ministry in several pastoral districts, while the gathering in Steinhausen included Bible sharing and reflection on the future of the Society in the country. The Mariahilf Mission House, with its 13 missionaries from 10 countries, stood as a strong sign of the Province’s intercultural character and missionary diversity.

A major part of the visitation was the several-day stay in the Paris-Saint-Denis area, where the Divine Word Missionaries serve in Rosny and Noisy-le-Grand. Their ministry there unfolds in communities marked by a high number of migrants and serious social challenges, including violence, crime, drugs, and unemployment. At the conclusion of the Paris visit, Fr. Yasinto, Fr. Stranz, and District Superior Fr. Janvier Koutandji met with Bishop Étienne Guillet, underlining the Province’s collaboration with the local Church in a demanding missionary setting.

The visitation also included Vienna, where discussions centered on pastoral care in an urban and intercultural environment, and Croatia, where the Province’s mission extends to parishes in Zadar, Kozino, Diklo, and the island of Iž. The General Visitation concluded with the Provincial Assembly, where Fr. Yasinto shared his impressions and identified major themes for reflection: spirituality and community life, parish ministry, the four characteristic dimensions of the SVD, formation, finances, and the future use of real estate. The visitation made visible both the richness and the complexity of the Central European Province’s mission today.