As in every assembly that is appreciated, the great and qualified assembly of the XI General Chapter of the Congregation of the Rogationists concludes also with a souvenir photo. In this photo are all the Chapter participants together with the newly elected government. Let us thank the Lord for the beautiful and intense experience of fraternal life and of permanent formation lived during these days, and we also thank all the readers of our blog who followed us with attention and interest. We will see each other in 2016. At the end of the chapter works, the superior general proceeds with the expressions of thanksgiving: to the Lord above all, then to all the Chapter members with the hope that what was said and written would not only be for the library. Fr. Mezzari remembers the jubilee date of the first arrival of the Rogationist missionaries in Latin America. We want to be a Council at the service of everyone. Thanks to the Chapter secretary Fr. Fortunato Siciliano, to the various responsible persons of the different sectors of the Chapter. Special thanks to the outgoing General Government in the person of Fr. Giorgio Nalin and to Fr. Gaetano Ciranni and his person who has been a great example. Together with Fr. Cifuni and Fr. Nalin they constitute a triumvirate of former superiors general, a true and proper wealth for the Congregation. We have been accompanied by all the confreres. We can now return home with our hearts filled with joy. We have assumed this work which will be the sign of the Congregation. Lack and limitations will be overcome. The work of the Chapter was the fruit of the work of the whole Congregation: all the Confreres will be joyful. Now the work will be sensitive to make the situation better for the whole Congregation. The work of the new government is programmed thus: an initial meeting tomorrow, then August 5, Thursday, a visit to the General Curia for the logistic composition of the new life of service.
The afternoon of Monday, August 2, was marked by an hour of Eucharistic adoration with which we wanted to ask from the Holy Spirit efficient light on the person to be elected. Immediately after, at the hall, the voting procedures of the Superior General started. On the third round the new superior general was elected. At 5:50 P.M., the President of the General Chapter, Fr. Francesco Bruno, proclaimed Fr. Angelo Ademir MEZZARI, 10th Superior General of the Rogationists. Fr. Angelo Mezzari was born in Criciuma SC (Brasil) on April 2, 1957, (Fr. Giorgio Nalin, ex-superior general, was born on April 2, 1951!), first of seven siblings and, at the age of eleven, he entered the Apostolic School of Criciuma SC where, under the guidance of the first Rogationist Missionaries in Brazil, he learned to love the Congregation. For eight years now, he has been the head of the Latin-American Province which he guided to the next Provincial Chapter that will be celebrated beginning on October 18, 2010. He was ordained priest on December 22, 1984. He did his licentiate in philosophy and theology with specialization in dogma, and licentiate in journalism. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, and is one of the founders of the Institute of Pastoral Ministry of Vocations in Brazil, respected and appreciated by the Episcopal Conference of Brazil. Before accepting the election which was almost like a plebiscite, Fr. Angelo Mezzari requested for some minutes of personal reflection, during which he telephoned his mother from whom he received blessing. His father died last February. Returning to the hall, he broke his silence, and after the expressions of elation from the Chapter members he took oath and received the obedience of the confreres. The intense and moving day concluded at the chapel with the vespers during which the new superior general proclaimed the profession of faith.
