The General Curia
The Superior General, the Assistants General, the Secretary General, the three sisters who serve in the Curia, the Treasurer General and Superior of the community, and Fathers Ginete, Suescun and Becerra, as those responsible for other offices of the Curia, moved to Mexico, during the first two weeks of June, in order [...]
The day was centered on the Eucharist, to be celebrated at five p. m., as the closing act of the meeting. Up to that moment it was time to collect things, formulate conclusions and pack up the luggage not only with one’s personal belongings but also with the pills and the cordials that the [...]
This time the Latin proverb “post festum pestum” - which implies that after a celebration there is not much craving for work- has not come true, because on the day following the excursion, in spite of some cramps, the agenda has been kept in its entirety.
One of the aspects of the agenda of this Visitors’ Meeting consisted in just meeting and fraternizing. There were prayer meetings, in particular the morning prayer ending with the celebration of the Eucharist, and the evening Vespers, and several other short but intense prayers in the beginning and at the end of the different sessions. [...]
In a historic move, the APVC (Asia-Pacific Visitors Conference) has pledged to assist in providing personnel to the international mission in the Solomon Islands. This assistance covers personnel for the Holy Name of Mary Seminary, the Nazareth Apostolic Center, and the Good Shepherd parish – all located near the capital city of [...]
One of the tasks indicated on the program for the Visitors’ Meeting was to provide time for the Visitors to meet by Conferences. This was done all day Monday and on Tuesday morning. This chronicler can attest, judging by the time passed in the Conference meetings, that the work was intense.
Today, Sunday, was a day to take a rest from our labors and enjoy ourselves. We left our work place and went to noisy Mexico City. After being closed in for a week, we were thankful to see new faces.
During the CEVIM Visitors’ Conference held at Istambul from April 27 to the 2nd of May 2006, the Visitors of the Provinces of Orient, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain had a conversation about the convenience of holding a meeting in order to think about the possibility of having an Interprovincial Internal Seminary on the [...]
Following the established program, Saturday was designated as a retreat day. Daniel Vasquez, the Visitor of Colombia, led the reflections. As usual, morning prayer was done in language groups.
The day has been very full and varied. After the work in the language groups, the day began with a revision of the synthesis prepared by the synthesizers, Frs. Manuel Ginete and Giuseppe Turati. They presented their work and the members of the assembly pointed out some gaps and imprecisions. That was precisely what the [...]