Towards the Conclusion of the Chapter

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.