Dear Confreres,
Today
began with morning prayer and Mass celebrated in Spanish by the
provincial of Spain, Fr Jose Antonio Ruiz. He spoke very movingly about
the lives and martyrdom of Fr Ricardo Gil and aspirant Antonio Arrué
and their tremendous poverty and complete trust in Divine Providence, as
well as their great charity to the poor in Valencia, Spain.
We
have been in plenary session all day today going through the
verification of the 15 main themes and other themes of the last General
Chaper. Every theme has a brief summary of whether or not it has been
put into practice and then each group makes suggestions for helping
confreres to put it more completely into practice. We are in the
process of preparing a hopefully brief but inspiring document for you
all.
This
evening four bishops joined us! They are Bishop Raymond Ahoua FDP,
bishop of Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, whom many of us know very well,
Bishop Adolfo Urione FDP, bishop of Anatuya, Argentina, former
provincial superior in Argentina, Bishop Miguel Mykycej FDP, bishop of
the Ucranian Eparchy of Argentina, and Bishop Daniel the successor of
Bishop Mykycej. They all gave us few words of encouragement as a good
night talk after night prayer, happy to be with us as their spiritual
brothers in the Orionine Family in the Church.
I
will attach some photos from yesterday's visit to the river where the
statue was found and the great basilica of Nossa Senora de Aparecida.
God bless,
Fr Malcolm
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