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Curia OCD
Roma (15-02-2009).- The Holy See has given its approval and support for a meeting of the Presidents and First Councillors of the European Federations and Associations of our Carmelite Nuns, plus the Holy Land (cf. the letter from Cardinal Rodé, the Prefect of the Congregation, 30/7/2008). Fr. General convoked this meeting on August 5 last year. There are 20 Federations/Associations and so there will be 40 participants. The new International Centre dedicated to St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross (aka Cites), Avila, has been chosen as the location, from February 9 14. The programme the Order prepared had been submitted to the Holy See for approval.
The said programme consists of the following selected themes: 1) Restructuring our presences, criteria, ways of doing this. Help from outside the country, criteria, by Sr. Enrica Rosanna, under-secretary at the CIVCSVA. 2. The same speaker will address the following theme:
Discernment of vocations, problems created by a lack of discernment. How to tackle the different problems. 3) Fr. General, Luis Arostegui, Contemplative Life in the Teresian Carmel. Conditions for a contemplative life, the meaning of a contemplative vocation. 4) Fr. Robert Paul, General Definitor, Modern means in relation to contemplative space and cloister. Discernment. 5). Prof. Juan Goti, Artistic patrimony of cultural interest. 6) Fr. Sebastian Pacilla, O:Cist., under-secretary to CIVCSVA, Government, need for change. Autonomy and Associations; autonomy and Fr. General; other solutions to government.
The meeting will involve small and large group discussions and dialogue with the speakers. There will be simultaneous translation. The liturgy will be celebrated in different languages. It is presumed that the participants will have reflected already on the themes in their own contexts. The Avila meeting will be an opportunity to listen and to dialogue on the different perceptions of the selected themes. In this way it is hoped to find a united approach to the criteria for resolving similar problems in all the Federations/Associations in Europe and the Holy Land.
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