ROME: 12 March 2014 -- This one's a bit of a mixture -
probably because the Chapter is a bit of a mixture, from
whatever angle one cares to look at it.
There's some international news.
There's a link to the lengthy (13 pages worth) English
translation of the RM's and Councillors' responses to
questions following the Report on the Congregation - that
will be of great interest.
There's some indications of what's happening at the moment
.... Questions and Answers You've seen some of the questions but not the
answers. Take
a look.
Some events around the world News has just come in of an accident at our University
of La Paz (Bolivia) where a roof collapsed in a severe
hailstorm killing one and injuring six others - it appears
that the death is one of our own confreres, a Fr David
Bellido. Details are sketchy at the moment.
Two confreres from the EAO Region have gone to their eternal
reward in the past couple of weeks, and both would be known
more widely in the Region (or known of). Fr Matthias Mo,
originally of CIN, but resident and working in AUL for many
many years, has died at a ripe old age. Matthias worked for
many years with the Chinese community in Sydney, and was an
outstanding artist (painter) amongst many other talents.
And Bro Ramon de la Cruz, (FIN) who worked in PNG-SI for many
years, died suddenly recently from a heart attack (74 years of
age). He was the bursar at Calauan. Please remember all
these confreres in your prayers. Some items from GC27
Last Friday saw the presentation of the Working Document, the
proposal on structures of Government and the Regions of
Europe, presentation of other contributions to the Chapter -
from provinces and individuals, including some that arrived
late.
The approach to the study of the theme was presented
Contributions on all kinds of things but especially on the
Constitutions and Regulations, the life of the Congregation.
These were presented rather than discussed in detail. That
comes later. The Moderator presented the methodology suggested for
discussion of the Chapter theme. There was discussion on this
but it gained overwhelming majority support to proceed as
outlined.
Some upcoming items
Let's not look too far ahead. Wednesday 12 March might
be far enough (other than the BBQ for the EAO group on
Saturday next!)
The Assembly meets first up (9.00), where some texts will be
presented from Commissions - one from the Juridical Commission
(could be interesting to see if the Missions Councillor role
survives this one) and then Commission reports on the first
core topic, under the now established approach - Listening and
Interpretation.
This kind of thing continues in the later morning session too.
The afternoon sessions will be given over to separate
commission meetings.
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Thanks for the response to the 'Fonti salesiane' - some have
already come in! Keep that up please!
