1560 FMA Sisters from South Pacific at 'centre' of world for now
austraLasia 1560
Salesian Sisters from South Pacific Region at centre
of FMA world - for now
MELBOURNE: 13th May 2006 -- In this 125th anniversary
year of the death of St. Mary Mazzarello, and given that Mother Antonia
Colombo the Superior General of the FMA, Sr. Ciri Hernandez, Mission
Councillor, and Sr. Therese-Anne Curmi, Visiting Councillor are all in
Melbourne on 13th May, it is certain that the FMA focus is in the South
Pacific Region just now. Sr Therese-Anne, herself once provincial
in Australia-Samoa, is concluding the Canonical Visitation of the
Sisters in this region. The Mother General and Mission Councillor
have joined with her on this occasion, as tomorrow the mid-Chapter
Evaluation meeting begins. It will conclude on 18th May.
Sr Edna Mary MacDonald, current provincial of SPR
and based in Melbourne, recently quoted Mary Mazzarello who in a letter
she wrote to her Sisters at the time, said: "I am rather sorry that you
have some difficulties because you are so few and have so much work to
do" (L 56,3). Sr Edna Mary rightly drew on this to point to the
extraordinary task facing the SPR Region. With just 35 Sisters and
already at work in three nations (Australia, Samoa and American Samoa),
the Sisters have undertaken with the full backing of the General
Council to begin a presence in the Solomon Islands in 2007.
The Mid-Chapter Evaluation sessions will face up to
questions such as what is changing in the lives of the Sisters,
personally, in community, in the province, in the entire Institute;
What blocks or holds back the search to 'choose life'; what directions
are becoming clearer as the Sisters plan for the future.
Whatever their answers to those questions, and even
as one looks at the multinational character of the 35 Sisters involved,
including many solid vocations from the islands in which they are
working, it is clear that the Sisters in their South Pacific setting
have not become complacent but have sought to open up avenues of
energising possibility.
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