austraLasia #2079
GC26:
At last, some solid documentation
ROME: Sunday 2nd March 2008 -- As readers will be aware, every
effort is being made to keep the wider Congregation not physically
present at the Pisana informed as GC26 moves gradually through the
forming (and possibly storming, in due course!) and eventually norming
stages. For the moment, the Chapter has not actually started - it is
'forming' and 'being informed'. The real beginning is Monday 3rd
March.
You can read about this Chapter at many levels, each
being an interpretative key of its own, in a way, and that even
includes the level you are reading right now, which may be a little
idiosyncratic at times, and will tend to reflect one or more
individuals' points of view. You can follow all the retreat
talks, for instance (from the GC26 website available through sdb.org)
or the Good Nights as they come (from the same URL). You can follow the
ANS news, usually once daily except weekends unless there is something
important happening that weekend, and ANS also makes available a video
on a weekly basis, as well as photos. www.sdb.org also makes
photos available from the homepage - different ones from ANS, so you
begin to see a wider spectrum of the people and events; you can follow
the GC26 cartoonist, with his own interpretation each day, via the GC26
website.
All of the above help one establish a sense of the
narrative that a General Chapter is within the life of the
Congregation. From time to time there is an outsider's
appreciation of things too, as was the case on 1st March with a London
Tablet article. We don't print that of course, for professional
reasons, but you can find it yourself easily enough online by googling
The Tablet.
And now you can begin to follow some of the
materials that have been presented in the Aula Magna by way of
preparation. The
reports on departments and regions. This material is
available to registered readers only, that is, Salesians who have
registered with sdb.org. And one might add here that we have made
only the text versions available because most of the multimedia formats
that were presented ran to such weight in bytes that it really is
beyond anyone's capacity to download them. All of
this, of course, with the due encouragement of the Moderator for the
Chapter, Fr Francesco Cereda. At a certain point (from Monday) he
comes directly under the arrangements which the Chapter Assembly itself
will establish with regard to communications. A Chapter is a
different animal from most assemblies, and has a peculiar degree of
constitutional autonomy, but is guided by R 124 which you might care to
read. The overall intention of that Regulation is to keep
confreres informed in sensible and constructive ways, and the
Congregation, having decided six years ago to give Social
Communications its own Councillor and build up all the elements that
make this sector work, is in a much better situation today than it was
even at the last General Chapter, to feed you with information (and
invite you to contribute - AGORA, for instance). In short, if it
is possible to produce, share information, you can be assured there is
a competent and eager team ready to do so.
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Title: australasia 2079
Subject and key words: SDG General, GC26, communications
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2079
