PACIFIC: MAJOR SUPERIORS ELECT FMA TO
EXECUTIVE
SUVA: 19th August -- At the annual Assembly of Major
Superiors of the Pacific Islands (CMSPI) held in Suva last week, Sr. Edna Mary
McDonald FMA accepted nomination for a two year membership to the executive
body. The executive contains both a core Fiji-based group and a wider
membership that meets in plenary session two or three times a year.
This year's Assembly, attended by 60 participants from around the Pacific Island
region, and including representatives from New Zealand and Australia, was
focused on Formation. The CMSPI has adopted a joint assembly formula now
for some years, where representative groups from the 'constituency' meet
alongside and in dialogue with the Major Superiors. It has been found to
generate much enthusiasm and serves as a major ongoing formation event in the
Religious calendar of the component groups of Religious throughout the islands -
there are some 50 such institutes serving 17 dioceses. Meanwhile, an
article titled 'My Vanishing Island Home', featuring some of the ecological and
environmental problems and the Religious' response to that in the Pacific, has
won the 'best feature article' award at the Australasian Catholic Press
Association Conference held also last week, in Canberra.
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