Congregation of the Mission & General Assembly 2010 admin | 28 Jun 2010
41st General Assembly of the Congregation of the Mission in Paris
On Monday, June 28, 2010in Paris the 41st General Assembly of the Gongregation of the Mission has began. Its motto is “CREATIVE FIDELITY TO THE MISSION”. The Assembly is marked by the Year of 350th Anniversary of death of St. Vincent and St. Louise. It is one of the reasons it was organized at Maisons Mere of both Congregations - Priests of the Mission and Daughters of Charity. Chosen in the convocation letter of April 14, 2008 Superior General and his Council have chosen words from our Constitutions as theme for the Assembly: ”Faithful to the gospel…attentive to the signs of the times…open up new ways and use new means…remain in a continual state of renewal” (cf. C. 2). The Opening Mass presided by Fr. Gregory Gay, Superior General, was celebrated at 9 a.m. in the chapel of St.Vincent de Paul at altar where his remains are laid.
There are 137 Confreres participating in the Assembly: 117 delegates, including 7 from the Curia (ex office), 49 Wisitirs (ex office), 59 delegates elected in provincial asseblies and one brother. Team of 14 translators (French English, Spanish and Italian) help delegates understand the debates. Three Synthesizers, who will moderate panel discussions during the Assembly. Three other persons are responsible for Chronicals and web communication.
Province of Poland (most numerous delegation from single Province) is represented by: Very Rev. r Arkadiusz Zakręta, the Visitor (ex office) and delagates: Rev. Władysław Bomba (Kraków, Kleparz), Rev. Kryspin Banko (Kraków, Stradom), Rev. Waldemar Rakocy (Catholic University of Lublin, KUL), Rev. Kazimierz Stelmach (Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza, Italy)
Additonally other members of Province of Poland present in the Asembly are: Rev. Józef Kapuściak, Vicar General (ex office) and Brother Adam Budzyna (web communication team).
♦ ♦ ♦ Official news and other materials from Maison Mere will be published in specially created section of CMGLOBAL.ORG website in English – General Assembly, Spanish — Asamblea General and French – Asémblée Genérale.
♦ ♦ ♦ Those news and some other which come to us from Paris will be available in special news service created as joined effort of Province of Poland and Province of New England. To access our coverage from Paris visit either our English website using Category link : « GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2010 » or Tag link: « CM PARIS 10 » or visit the website of New England Province at: « CMNEWENGLAND.ORG »
♦ ♦ ♦ The coverage in Polish will be availble parallely in our main site: « MISJONARZE.PL » under Category link « KONWENT GENERALNY 2010 » and/or in Vincentian Family News in Polish at «FAMVIN.ORG - POLSKA »
