FMS ltimas noticias
UPDATE
Number 220
Rome, June 20th, 2006
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UPDATE
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6th March
2007
PATRIMONY COMMISSION
The Patrimony Commission has put at the disposal of interested persons a certain number of sources and works waiting publication, either in the Marist Notebooks or under a form of specific works. These documents, in several languages or only in their original language, only have an unofficial character and can be modified before their publication. By proceeding thus, the Commission hopes to reduce the delay between the realisation and the publication of patrimonial research.
These documents can be found in the reserved area of the Institutes webpage. All the brothers can access this part of the webpage from the time they register. The inscriptions are done on line and the authorisation for entering will be done in the few hours that follow the inscription. To enter the reserved area, it is necessary to visit our site www.champagnat.org and make the choice of entering the reserved area.
NEWS APPERED ON OUR WEB SITE22nd February 6th March 2007
Italy - 06/03/2007
Spirituality programme at Manziana
TIME TO LISTEN, REFLECT, SHARE AND PRAY
A spirituality programme in the French language for the brothers of mid-life started at Manziana on the 21st January and will finish at the Hermitage on the 21st June 2007.
There are eleven brothers who are participating, coming from three Provinces: Hermitage (3), Madagascar (4) and East Central Africa (4). A chaplain, a Marist Father (Canadian) provides the service of Eucharistic celebrations.
The animation team is composed of Brothers George Fontana, Antonio Rieu Rieu and Antoine Kazindu.
The programme will be an opportunity for each participant to take the time to listen, reflect, share and pray in order to renew his consecration and his commitment in the service of the Kingdom. The effort of each person to open his heart to the repeated calls of God and to centre his life on Christ will lead him to live Marist religious life with a great deal more enthusiasm, joy and love.
Spain - 05/03/2007
Spirituality Course at El Escorial
REMEMBERING OUR OWN VOCATION STORY
On the 1st February, the Marist Spirituality Centre of San Lorenzo at El Escorial received a new group of brothers.
The following brothers are participating in this 77th session: Guillermo V. Martnez, Mxico Central; Jos Lus H. Martn, Santa Mara de los Andes; Gregorio Delgado Soler, Mediterrnea; Daniel de la Fuente Prieto and Rafael Izquierdo Jaramillo, Cruz del Sur; Isabelino Roux Santacruz, Cruz del Sur -Paraguay; Ataide Jos de Lima, Brasil Centro-Norte; Antoni M. Fililla and Ton M. Frigola, LHermitage; Jess M. A. Montes, Norandina.
The co-ordination and orientation of the course is in the hands of Brothers Xavier Espinosa Marticorena, Amrica Central; Afonso Levis, Brasil Centro-Sul; Elas Pea Rodrguez, Rufino Gonzlez des Heras, and Alfredo Villanueva Sinz, from the Province of Ibrica.
We are also counting on the services of Father Guilhermo Rubio Maroto, member of the community of Augustinians from the Monastery of El Escorial who is helping us with spiritual services. Mr Pedro Llamas Prez and his wife Dori Garca Fernndez are looking after the kitchen and the laundry.
Until the present we have made a good journey. Bit by bit the group has formed and we have discovered each other and got to know each other well. After the first meetings that focussed on introductions and the organisation of life in common, the course started with the Biblical Memory of the story of our vocation. The brothers on the co-ordination team invited us to review our personal journey in the light of the merciful love of God, who sees us, loves us and calls us to be with Him in the consecrated life. Our story is a sacred story because God loves us as we are. We continued to deepen the anthropological core through the knowledge of our personality profile through the enneagram, a subject explained by Brother Lluis Serra Llansana. We reflected with Brother Pedro Ost on the Evangelical Use of Goods and the calls that the Institute makes to us in this domain. We have analysed Community Life with the help of the circular of Brother Sen Sammon, Marvellous Companions. We have delved more into the terrain of self-knowledge accompanied by Maite Melendo, covering the aspect of Communication and interpersonal relationships, an indispensable condition for building healthy community relationships. The subject of Celibacy and the consecrated life, treated by Father Cosme Porto, gave us a more global and integrated vision of concepts concerning sexuality.
The excellent spirit that is evident in the group makes us foresee in the future a time of personal benefit and a good community development.
We appreciate the presence of the brothers who have visited us, rejoicing in their fraternal presence. Among them, Brother Antonio Carlos Ramalho, who spent a few days with us at the end of February and brought us news of the Institute. This interest that the General Council shows in the course and its members gives us a lot of encouragement. We thank Brother Antonio, the Council and all the brothers of our Provinces who help us and accompany us by their prayers.
Philippines - 02/03/2007
Thirteen brothers at Davao and one bread
I WILL TAKE IT TO MY BROTHERS AND WE WILL EAT IT TOGETHER
These are the words pronounced in 1824 by Brother Jean Pierre Martinol when Father Champagnat offered him some bread to eat before undertaking the return voyage to his community: I will take it to my brothers and we will eat it together.
We are a community of thirteen brothers plus three brothers who are accompanying us and, as those responsible, are preparing us with great concern and affection for our future mission. Will we be capable of taking a bit of bread and will we be able to share it together with the brothers of the community, with all those whom we love?
THE LONG PATHWAYS DEMAND GREAT FIDELITY AND AS THE PATHWAYS LENGTHEN, THE FIDELITY BECOMES MORE BEAUTIFUL.
Transitions, changes, moves, cultures, renunciations, means for building a community, spirituality for the mission, Champagnat and his mission, history and culture of the people of Asia, cultural diversity and some other themes that we will explore deeply throughout our voyage, to start to eat our bread of the house together, with a good appetite, with a bit of flavour, - all that is done and lived affectionately, asks for more causes us to repeat and to share. It is in the sharing that we find the meaning of many of our renunciations changed into happiness and into hopes.
Community is sharing. Sharing is loving. To share it is necessary to dialogue and the dialogue must be an authentic human activity.
How it is beautiful to recognise each other each day. To eat together. To accept the bread that each brother brings to the table, with simplicity but with a lot of affection at the same time the warmth of the home is what counts and all of that brings us back to our Founder, when he spoke of family spirit as a Marist characteristic.
I look ahead to the 15th June charged with ideas, with experiences lived and assumed in a responsible way. Five months lived with shared ups and downs, some of them painful, others happy, and only for this: to have accepted to be COMMUNITY, to know how to recognise each other, travelling the same pathway. Each hour and each day that passes, I ask myself timidly: What will I take to my brothers to eat with them? This question that I ask myself each day carries the burden of my smallness, but at the same time reflects the grandeur, the vitality and the actuality of community life.
More than a month has passed of doing and being here in community at Davao, with a few clear and concrete objectives known by all. We know each other, we accept each other as different and complementary, we are rich personalities and for that different.
At the end of the day, in our multicultural community, one perceives the calm, one seeks rest; the daily programme lived and personalised with honesty emerges in thanksgiving praise: for the brothers whom you have given me, for the lived experience, for the misunderstood and certainly accepted -, for the joys of some and the worries of others. For the fresh bread of today and sometimes for the stale one of yesterday, but always ours, and for the food of tomorrow. For all that we are and the way in which we are: THANKS LORD.
I will take it to my brothers: how much questioning suggests this sentence to me; it speaks to me of moves, of will, of priorities, of substitutions, of changes, of growing, of assimilation to new cultures including new languages. What will I take to them? Why will I take it to them? To whom will I take it? This is the process in which we find ourselves, the thirteen brothers of this community in Davao. I am truly convinced that our bread kneaded and raised each day in the silence of the morning reminds us of the promise to share it which demands from us presence, attitude and mutual acceptance; this is what we must take to the brothers to eat it, to taste it, to savour it, profiting from it together and recognising each other each day eating the bread worked by our own hands. ONE IS ALWAYS BORN IN A PLACE THAT ONE HAS NOT CHOSEN.
With all my affection. United in Jesus, Mary and Marcellin.
Santos Garcia.
General House - 01/03/2007
Post-Novitiate stage one formators meeting
A GLOBAL
