16th October 2013
Aparecida, Brazil
Dear Confreres,
Today, the third day of the
Assembly, we started the plenary sessions, that is, where all the groups come
together to share their conclusions from the group work.
As the Sisters and Lay People
were going to leave after lunch, we had the reports of those groups in which
the Sisters and Lay People took part, that is, the groups reflecting on Ministries
and Vocations
and charism.
We then celebrated Mass at
midday, with Fr Pierangelo Ondei, provincial of Italy, as the main celebrant,
and then had a photo of all the participants of the Assembly. The Sisters and Lay People departed after
lunch.
In the afternoon, we continued
with the findings of the other three groups dealing with Sources, Relations
in community life and New frontiers.
In the plenary sessions, every
member is free to comment on the texts presented by the groups and to offer
suggestions to change the text.
After Night Prayer, Fr Walter
Groppello, of the Italian Provincial Council, gave a Good Night talk on our
mission in Madagascar, which started in 1976, and about the opening of the new
community of Abanja in the north of the island, near the coast, about 900km
from the next community of Anathihazo, in the capital city of Antananarivo.
It has rained for most of today
so it has been difficult to visit the shrine of Aparecida which is only 15
minutes walk from the Redemptorist Spirituality Centre where we are staying.
God bless,
Fr Malcolm
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