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Conclusion
MP 27-37; 42-44.
That is the result of our reflection.
We are communicating it to you in all simplicity, as a fraternal
stimulus to keeping hold of what is essential in the following
and proclamation of the Gospel according to the charism of Francis.
The General Chapter in fact pointed out to us the qualifying
notes of our sequela, of our proclamation, and some
of the ways to be preferred. With this "guide" we,
as those responsible for the animation of the universal Fraternity,
want to prompt memories and support proposals and initiatives,
so that in this time of grace which the Lord is granting us to
live through, we may all, individually and together, incarnate
the richness of the Franciscan charism and make available to everyone
the evangelical adventure of Saint Francis, so original and so
attractive
Appendix
OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITIES OF THE
GENERAL DEFINITORIUM
Setting out from what is laid down
in the General Constitutions, the document From Memory
to Prophecy and the Priorities for the Sexennium 1997-2003,
the Minister General with his Definitorium propose to keep before
them the following objectives and priorities.
1. Objectives (cf. MP 12c; 18-20)
The animation of the life of the
Order will be effected especially by means of:
1. Visits by the Minister, Definitors
and Secretaries General to the Provinces and Conferences, with
particular attention to the carrying out of the Priorities
for the Sexennium 1997-2003.
2. Letters and visits by the Minister
General, visits and meetings by the members of the Definitorium
with the Provinces and the Conferences; also the work of the Secretariates
and of the Offices of the Curia will be given as their goal to
promote unity in the Order while respecting diversity.
3. Publication of aids with the aim
of assisting the friars in deepening their knowledge of our identity,
animating our life and facilitating the putting into practice
of our mission.
2. Priorities
1. The spirit of prayer and devotion
(cf. MP 11)
- To encourage the knowledge and the
practical application of the aid The Spirit of Prayer and Devotion,
beginning with the Houses dependent on the Minister General.
- To set up an international commission
to offer new aids and proposals following the line suggested by
the General Chapter.
2. Communion of Life in Fraternity
(cf. MP 7; 19; 21,1; 22,2; 23-26; 33;
42)
- To promote the global and organic
review of the structures of the Order, in order to make the renewed
structures serve the Order's life and mission and the Order as
it really should be: a true Fraternity.
- To continue the dialogue with the
Holy See for the purpose of obtaining recognition of the Order
as a "Mixed Institute".
- To promote dialogue between the
General Curia and the Entities of the Order, among all the friars,
between the friars and culture, other Christians and other religions.
- To promote meetings of the friars
at Conference and Order level, especially with Ministers Provincial
and Visitators.
- To guarantee the friars who work
in the Houses dependent on the Minister General the means for
carrying out well and in a worthy manner their service to the
Order, with particular reference to the Professors at the PAA.
- To stimulate a knowledge of languages
as a means of fraternal communion, above all among the younger
friars.
- To increase reciprocal communion
with all the components of the Franciscan Family, in particular
the contemplative Sisters, the SFO and Franciscan Youth.
3. Life of minority, poverty and
solidarity
(cf. MP 8,1;
8,4; 39-40; QV 6; 8-11)
- To promote the culture of solidarity
and of collaboration at the level of persons, of structures, of
projects in formation, mission and material means, so as to reinforce
the consciousness of belonging to one universal Fraternity.
- Riorganizzare l'Economato generale per aiutare l'Ordine a svolgere
il servizio a cui è chiamato, compreso quello a favore dei poveri e
dell'umanità.
- To re-organize the General Economato
so as to help the Order to carry out the service to which it is
called, including that in favour of the poor and of all mankind.
- To continue and develop the experiment
of the Fund-Raising Office.
- To assist "Franciscans International"
to improve their relations with the Order and the Franciscan Family.
- To collaborate with the Conferences
and the Provinces to create a network of personnel and resources
for contributing to the needs of refugees.
- To clarify the role and importance
of the Office for Justice, Peace and the Safeguarding of Creation.
4. Evangelization-Mission
(cf. MP 8,5; 13bc; 14a; 15ab)
- To deepen communion with the laity,
with respect for their dignity and their role, so as to collaborate
with their mission of ecclesial renewal and social transformation.
- As Friars Minor, to promote at the
level of the Order the study and review of our presence and our
activity in parishes.
- To propose to all the friars new
forms and new methods of evangelization in communion with the
local and universal Church.
- To support the various missionary
projects of the Order, with particular attention to the Holy Land,
Morocco, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Ukraine.
5. Formation
(cf. MP 29; 30; 34,2; 35-37)
- To provide for periodical meetings
of the members of the Definitorium with those responsible for
formation in the Provinces in order arrive at an evaluation of
the progress made in recent years.
- To organize meetings in the Provinces
and Conferences to promote and deepen knowledge of the Ratio
Formationis Franciscanae and of the document Ongoing Formation
in the Order of Friars Minor so as to make their application
in all the Entities possible.
- To plan formation courses for formators
at the level of the Order or the Conferences.
- To organize international congresses
for Provincial Secretaries of Formation and Studies and for the
Provincial Promoters of the pastoral care of vocations.
- To support the creation of Centres
of Franciscan Spirituality in the Conferences and the Provinces,
possibly together with other members of the Franciscan Family;
to encourage collaboration between the Study Centres of the Order.
- To set up an International Commission
to promote the administration, organization, image and quality
of the PAA with the prospect of a possible Inter-Franciscan University.
- To continue the work of drawing
up the Ratio Studiorum.
- To increase the participation of
the friars in the various experiences of ongoing formation already
existing, like the "Assisi Experience", "Sabbatical
period in the Holy Land", or others possibly to be organized.
- To promote courses for the learning
of languages in collaboration with some of the Provinces or Conferences.
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