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Nemi, Italy. August 30, 2021. A joyful and singular day.
The chapter community continues its journey. A chapter can be understood in many ways. Those participating in this XXVI General Chapter of our Congregation have tried to discover that every moment has its importance, from the most seemingly secondary to the supposedly principal. Today was not just any day: the calendar marked it as the date of the election of the Superior General.
As on other days, around six o’clock in the morning, the chapel already welcomed several capitulars. A little later, when the Blessed Sacrament was exposed, the number of capitulars was growing little by little. At seven o’clock the votive Mass of the Holy Spirit began. As always, the white of the albs mingled with the joyful presence of the capitulars who are Missionary Brothers.
The chapter had much to celebrate. Together with Fr. Ronaldo Mazula’s (Brazilian capitular) birthday, it was joyfully announced that after two years of visa procedures two students from India were traveling today to their new mission countries. Added to all this was the joy of seeing five confreres from India, who have participated in the Chapter from the very beginning, leave the mandatory quarantine and finally arrive in Europe and, after a few days of quarantine in Nemi, join the great assembly for the first time.
Fr. Mathew Vattamattam, President of the Chapter, presided at the Eucharist, which, like all the liturgy of the day, was animated by the Prefecture of Formation. The assembly asked for the light of the Spirit in various languages.