the curia informs - Passio Christi

NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCES
to be given to Being before Doing. If this is not so,
we will find that we anguish over the fact that we
seem not to be successful… We need to evaluate our
possibilities with humility and simplicity, assuming
that our primary goal is to be signs of hope that originate
in our being called to live in COMMUNITY,
gathered by the Lord and inspired by the spirit of St.
Paul of the Cross who gathered companions to live
and to proclaim the “Memoria Passionis”.
We are called to live in a new era that is much
more open; we are called to globalization (with its
plusses and minuses) and we cannot close our eyes to
this reality. By our baptism we assume the project of
the Kingdom and being Christian. The follower of
Jesus of Nazareth is converted or should be converted
into a universal man or woman. In other times we
were impeded in this process of becoming part of one
people, the people of God by geographic limitations,
social structures and many other impediments.
In one way, the Meeting of the CII Conference
with the General Council in May 2008 and in the
sharing about the status of the work that is being done
in preparation for the next Synod by means of the
reports of the responses to the Questionnaire
(Template) that were prepared by the various
Provinces, as well as by the openness that was exhibited
during this process of Restructuring, and also the
information offered by the General Council in its
experience in other areas of the Congregation that
included the recent Meeting with the Coordinators,
helped us to focus on discovering the CRITERIA
that we need in order to proceed with this process and
to reveal the steps that need to be taken prior to the
next General Chapter of 2012.
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DEDICATION OF ST. MARIA GORETTI
PARISH CHURCH IN MÁLAGA, SPAIN
(FAM PROVINCE)
The Church of St. Maria Goretti (FAM)
On 12 May, 2008 the bishop of Málaga, Spain, Most Rev. Antonio Dorado Soto presided at the dedication
of the new Passionist church of St. Maria Goretti. The Provincial, Fr. Fernando Rabanal, C.P., the
parish priest Fr. Luis Marco Súss, C.P. and some 15 Passionist and diocesan priests from the Málaga
deanery also took part in the ceremony, which was attended by a large number of the faithful. The parish has
been in the hands of the Passionists since its creation in 1972. The church has since been remodeled and has
acquired a precious relic of St. Mary Goretti suitable for public veneration.
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July 2008 - PIB n. 17