by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 26, 2021 | a current event, Da mihi animas cetera tolle TODAY!, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, FMA, General Chapter, Mother General, Salesian Sisters
25 October 2021 Rome, Italy – October 2021 – The 24th General Chapter of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians at the FMA Generalate in Rome ended yesterday, 24 October. In the morning, Mother General, Sr. Chiara Cazzuola, presented her concluding speech to the Chapter members, thanking them “for their passionate and serene participation”. At 11am, the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, presided over the Eucharist. Before the conclusion of GC 24, the Chapter members also received a special visit on 22 October from Pope Francis who met the participants and exhorted them to be “generative communities” and “women of hope”. The Holy Father lauded the ministry carried out by the FMA throughout the world, especially in the current multicultural and multireligious social context. Source: Italy – Closure of the 24th General Chapter of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 26, 2021 | Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, FMA, General Chapter, Messages of the Rector Major, Salesian Saints
25 October 2021 (ANS – Rome) – Yesterday, Sunday 24 October 2021, the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) concluded its 24th General Chapter at its Generalate, which began on 11 September 2021. In the 44 days of listening, prayer, dialogue and discernment, the 172 FMA Chapter members elected the new Mother General, Mother Chiara Cazzuola. They also elected the other members of the General Council, and they reflected together on how to be “Communities that generate life in the heart of contemporary life.” The General Chapter was lived an attitude of listening to the call of God who prepares them to live the future with young people of today’s history. All of the work of GC 24 now finds its synthesis in the Chapter Document “With Mary, being a ‘presence’ that generates life”. In the morning, Mother General gave her concluding speech, in which she said among other things: “I feel the need to express my gratitude to the Lord for the abundance of grace to which we have been the recipients in this Chapter time. (…) As a fruitful community enlightened by the presence of Mary, we have focused on three significant choices: to be...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 26, 2021 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, General Chapter, Mother General
By Sr Maria Letizia Yoko Ono General Councilor for Formation Valdocco, 22 October 2021 — The 18th General Chapter of the Caritas Sisters of Jesus concluded with the Eucharist celebrated by the Rector Major Fr Angel F. Artime at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco, Turin on 21 October 2021 at 11:30 am. By Sr Maria Letizia Yoko Ono CSJ 18th GC, Ariccia, Italy, 15 October 2021 — The Caritas Sisters of Jesus have elected their new Superior General, Sr. Emiliana PARK, during their 18th General Chapter, on 14 October (Ariccia, Italy) . She succeeds the former Superior Sr Teresia FURUKI (2016-2021) as the leader of the 900+ religious congregation established in 1937 in Miyazaki, Japan. The new Superior General was born in South Korea, made her first religious profession in 1983, final vows in 1989 in Gwangju. Sr Emiliana served 6 years as provincial councilor for formation in Korea, then was elected as general councilor for the family apostolate (6 years) and then served as general councilor for formation until the GC18. The 45 delegates of the General Chapter gathered in Ariccia, near Rome in...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 26, 2021 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, FMA, General Chapter, Pope Francis, Salesian Sisters
From multiple sources: Rome, FMA General House, 25 October 2021 — On the morning of 22 October, after leaving Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis went by car to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians General House, where he met participants at the 24th General Chapter of the Institute, which is being held in Rome from 11 September to 24 October 2021 on the theme “Generative Communities of Life in the Heart of Contemporaneity”. During this memorable and quite unexpected encounter (unlike the SDBs during the GC28 at Valdocco in March 2020), the 180 FMA Sisters at the General Chapter were encouraged by Pope Francis on their path of following Jesus Christ with more courage and determination. After the talk in the Chapter Hall, there was a good opportunity to share the joy and some gifts from different cultures to the Successor of Peter. The Holy Father Francis once again manifested his special attention to the Salesian Family through a surprise visit, on Friday 22 October by going to the Generalate of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) in Rome to meet the participants of the 24th General Chapter of the FMA. The...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 19, 2021 | Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, FMA, General Chapter, Salesian Sisters
19 October 2021 (ANS – Rome) – On Monday 18 October 2021 the Mother General of the FMA Institute, Sr. Chiara Cazzuola, appointed, with the consent of the General Council, Sr. Maria Luisa Nicastro, of the Roman Province “San Giovanni Bosco” (IRO), as the Secretary-General of the FMA Institute and communicated it to the participants in the XXIV General Chapter. Sister Nicastro, born in Rome, was the Principal of the “Mary Help of Christians” Secondary School in Rome and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium” in Rome. Until now she held the position of Secretary of the IRO Province. The Secretary General is responsible for the general archives, the history of the Institute, the registers and general statistics. (C. 133) Her duties include: the drafting of the Acts and Deliberations of the General Council and the official documents of the Institute; the compilation of the registers and general statistics; fostering and the deepening of the charism and history of the Institute. The Secretariat has the responsibility of the Central Historical Archive with the aim of preserving, ordering and making known, through the relevant documentation, the historical heritage of the FMA Institute (see Constitutions, art....
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 15, 2021 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, General Chapter, Mother General, Salesian Family
15 October 2021 (ANS – Ariccia) – Caritas Sisters of Jesus (CSJ, or “Suore della Carita di Gesù”, in Italian language) have elected during their 18th General Chapter on October 14th (Ariccia, next to Rome, Italy) their new Superior General, Sr. Emiliana Park. She succeed the former Superior Sr Teresia Furuki (2015-2021) as the leader of the more than 900 sisters strong religious congregation, born in 1937 in Miyazaki, Japan. The new Superior General was born in South Korea, made her first religious profession in 1983, final vows in 1989 in Gwangju. Sr Emiliana served 6 years as Provincial Councilor for formation in Korea, then was elected as General Councilor for the family apostolate (6 years) and then served as General Councilor for Formation until the GC18. Newly Mother General shares heart few hours after the unexpected election: “Humanly, although I’m afraid, I believe that the Lord will lead me because I have surrendered everything to the Lord and obeyed. At the 18th General Chapter, we are making a resolution that ‘we must live our founding charism creatively while looking at the signs of the times’. I’m asking the Spirit of the Risen Lord to renew us. And I would...
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