The Ad Gentes Centre of the Divine Word Missionaries, where the XI General Chapter will take place, is located in Nemi (Rome). Let’s have a look to this wonderful town in the Roman Castels area.
Yesterday, on the feast of the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we had the official beginning of our XI General Chapter with the solemn Eucharistic celebration at 8.30 am. Some of our sisters from the community of Torre Gaia and Via Salvini, other than that many others followed us through youtube. Fr. Ferruccio Brambillasca, Superior General of PIME, presided over the Eucharistic celebration...
The communities of Rome have welcomed the proposal of the General Direction of praying creatively for the forth-coming General Chapter. With this intention a pilgrimage was organized on 27th May Sunday. Following the footsteps of the traditional route of the Roman pilgrims, about 23 km along the “7 Churches” – the Basilicas of the city, we walked, prayed and offered the pilgr...
Tomorrow, the 8th of September 2018, Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary h. 8.30 (italian time), you may watch also from here the Opening Mass of the XI General Chapter officiated by fr. Ferruccio Brambillasca, PIME.
The beginning of the Chapter Diary is scheduled for September, the month in which we will open the chapter’s works. In the meantime, news and initiatives for the preparation for the XI General Chapter will be published in this section.
Today we started the work on the revised text of our Constitutions. We gathered in the Chapter hall for a short introduction session where the members of the commission for the constitutions presented the important/main modifications done. We proceeded for the personal study and the sharing in the groups divided according to the language Italian, English and Portuguese. Sr. Micheline invited us to...
On Saturday 22 September 2018 the Chapter members concluded the elective session, voting the new General Direction, composed of:
Here is the first of some interviews with the delegates of the XI General Chapter….What do they expect from this Chapter? Which are their desires? Sr. Julia Adinawe, born in Papua New Guinea and now in North Africa as a missionary sister of the Immaculate, has been invited to participate at the Chapter to represent PNG. In this interview – in english – you can find her point of v...
Sunday 16 September we had a day off together in Tuscania, a little town in province of Viterbo. On monday 17 September we started the study session about Instrumetum laboris, that will guide decisions for the next six years.
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