NEWS BULLETINS OF THE 45th GENERAL CHAPTER

ROME, OCTOBER 1 - 23, 2006

 

   1. Participants of the 45th General Chapter

 

   2. Homily - Opening liturgy:  October 1st

 

   3. Letter from His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Passionist Congregation

 

 4. Report on the state of the Congregation  by the Superior General Fr. Ottaviano D'Egidio, CP

 

   5. The Approved Timetable for the General Chapter

 

   6. Report from the Restructuring Commission to the General Chapter

 

   7. A Spirituality for Restructuring: Fr. Felicísimo Martinez, OP (October 2, 2006)

 

   8. Fr. Ottaviano D'Egidio, CP was reelected General Superior of the Passionist Congregation

 

   9. The new General Consultors were elected

 

   10. BETHANY Project

 

   11. THE CENTER FORUM's Journey of the "Memoria Passionis" (2002 - 2006)

 

   12. SOLIDARITY Commission Report

 

   13. The Passionist presence at UN -Passionist International-

 

   14. Decree of the Elevation of the Queen of Peace Province -REPAC-, Indonesia

 

  15. 45° General Chapter: Principal Decree and Areas of Priority

 

 

 

 

 


 

REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE CONGREGATION

By the Superior General Fr. Ottaviano D'Egidio, CP

 

 


 

 

THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS

OF THE PASSIONIST CHARISM


A study document for the Capitulars and the Communities

in preparation for the General Chapter

 

A LETTER FROM FR. GENERAL

 

THE  DOCUMENT

 


 

 

 

MEETING OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER

COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

The commission met at the General House in Rome.

May 18 -19

 

Fr. Miguel Ángel Villanueva (REG)

Fr. Massimo Granieri (LAT)

Fr. Donald Webber (CRUC)

Fr. Ramiro Ruiz (FID)

 

They are responsible for making known the events and documents of the coming General Chapter, both during the preparatory phase and in the course of the Chapter itself.

 

 

SUMMARY OF ANSWERS

TO THE QUESTIONNAIRES CONCERNING

THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
 

 

The Restructuring Commission has read and examined all the

replies received regarding the three questionnaires which were sent out,

and has made a summary of these which, placed in a single fascicle,

is being sent out to all our communities in order that they may be known,

reflected upon and submitted to a fruitful dialogue. Those who will be attending

the coming General Chapter next October in Rome should make a special

effort to study them carefully and engage in an indepth in dialogue

with their communities and Provinces, so as to then share it

all with their fellow members during the Chapter.

 

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PRAYERS FOR

THE 45th GENERAL CHAPTER

 

 

 

MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY COMMISSION OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER AT STS. JOHN AND PAUL'S

IN ROME

ON MARCH, 13-19
FR. OTTAVIANO D'EGIDIO, Superior General,
FR. LUIGI VANINETTI, General Consultor and
Coordinator for the Preparatory Commission,
the Moderator, the Chapter Secretary,
the Preparatory Commission,
and the Commission for Restructuring,

met to push ahead with the work of the next GENERAL CHAPTER
which is to meet next October in Rome.
They met with the presidents of the General Chapter Commissions.

 

THE COMMISSIONS ARE:
 


Chapter Moderator:

-Ward Cortvriendt (Norbertine)

 

Chapter Secretary:

-Fr. Laurence finn (PASPAC)

-Fr.  Ramiro Ruiz (FID) -Vice-

 

Secretary Staff:

-Mrs. Federica Franco

-Mrs. Christine Smith

-Bro. Paulus Aloanto (REPAC)

-Fr. Luigi Vaninetti (CORM), Coordinatore

-Fr. Ciro Benedettini (PIET), Segretario del Cap.

-Fr. Ward Cortvriendt (premostratense)

 

-The members of the Restructuring Commission:

-Fr. Michael Ogweno (PATR.MATAF)

-Fr. José Luis Quintero (SANG)

-Fr. Robin Ryan (PAUL)

-Fr. Tarcisio Gaitan (FID)

-Fr. Nicholas Postlethwaite (IOS)

-Fr. Denis Travers (SPIR)

-Fr. Adolfo Lippi (PRAES)

-Fr. Miguel Ángel Villanueva (REG)

-Fr. Ramiro Ruiz (FID)

-Fr. Donald Webber (CRUC)

-Fr. Massimo Granieri (LAT)

-Fr. Corrado Albini (CORM)

-Fr. Juan Ignacio Villar (FAM)

-Fr. Robson Rios Pinto (DOMIN)

-Bro. Antony Chirammel (CRUC-THOM)

-Fr. Raffaele Pragliola (DOL)

-Fr. Giuliano Bonelli (PRAES)

-Fr. Battista Ramponi (CORM)

-Fr. Mirek Lisiecki (ASSUM)

-Fr. Cosimo Chianura (LAT)

-Fr. Enzo Del Brocco (DOL)

-Bro. Efraim Diakom Ambon (REPAC)

Translators:

-Confr. Marco Pasquali (PIET)

-Fr. Lawrence Rywalt (PAUL)

-Fr. Fernando Pielagos (FAM)

 

Interpreters:

-Fr. Enzo Del Broco (DOL)

-Fr. Arthur Carrillo (CRUC)

-Fr. Luis Enrique Bernal (FID)

-Fr. Patricio Manosalvas-Rizzo (LAT)

-Fr. Robert Coward (CRUC)

-Miss. Daniela Persia

-Fr. Battista Ramponi (CORM)

-Fr. Francisco Valadez (REG)

-Fr. Julio Redondo (FAM)

-Fr. Patrick Fitzgerald (PATR)

-Fr. Vincenzo Fabri (PIET)

-Fr. Paul Cherukoduth (THOM)

STAFF OF THE COMMISSION

FOR LOGISTIC

 

-Bro. Marcianus Suparno (REPAC)

-Miss. Lucia Morlando

-Miss. Monica Maura