15th October 2013
Aparecida, Brazil
Dear Confreres,
Today, the second day of the
General Assembly of Verification, we are still blessed with the presence of the
Superior General of our Sisters, Sr M Mabel and Sr M Bernadeth, the General
Responsible for the MLO/OLM, Javier Rodriguez, the coordinator for the Orionine
Secular Institute in Brazil, the two lady Co-ordinators of the MLO/OLM from
Brazil North and South and the two representatives of the Youth Movement from
Brazil, one young man and one young lady.
We began with Mass and Morning
Prayer celebrated by Fr Cadenini the Provincial of Argentina in Spanish.
The work of the Assembly began at
9am with the reports of the provincials of Poland, Italy and Spain, giving the
strengths, weaknesses and future priorities of their respective provinces. The Provincial of Spain, Fr José Antonio and
his confrere representative, also José Antonio, had just arrived this morning
from Spain after the beatification of more than five hundred martyrs in Spain,
including our own Fr Ricardo Gil and aspirant Antonio Arrué. The Superior General of the Sisters gave
answers to some questions on our religious congregation from their point of
view and how we can co-operate better in the future. The lay people also gave their report.
The rest of the day consisted of
work in groups. There are five groups;
each one is looking at the feed-back from the provinces, vice-provinces and our
delegation on the five themes of the 13th General Chapter. The Sisters and Lay People participated in
some groups.
Javier gave a report on the
General Assembly of the MLO/OLM which had been held in Montevideo, Uruguay,
9-11th October in which our representative, Karen Chia from England,
took an active part. He ended with the
famous prayer of St Teresa of Avila, as it is her feast day today, “Let nothing
disturb you...”
We prayed for you all and all
your needs in the Mass and morning and evening prayer.
God bless,
Fr Malcolm
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