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Rooted in Christ and Audacious in the Mission: The Provincial Chapter of Santiago is about to begin
Madrid, Spain. As the Provincial Chapter of Santiago begins tomorrow, February 23, 2022, we present to you our interview with the Provincial Superior, Fr. Adolfo Lamata Muyo, CMF. We asked him to tell us something about the preparations for the Chapter and his personal observations about it.
The Chapter will be presided over by Fr. Matthew Vattamattam, CMF, Superior General of the Congregation. And in keeping with the tradition of the Province, along with the presiding table, moderators will be chosen from among the capitulars to coordinate the dialogues and interventions in the hall.
What preparations have been made or are still in progress?
Due to the pandemic of COVID and the time pressure, since we anticipated the Chapter from the summer of 2022 to Christmas 21, given that Pedro Belderrain, our provincial, became part of the General Government, we have done much of the preparation through online meetings, except for the face-to-face pre-capitular assembly.
FIRST PHASE, prior to the precapitular assembly:
On the one hand, the communities have been asked, using the language of the General Chapter, and all the Claretians of the Province underwent a formation via Zoom and YouTube, given by those members of the Province who attended the General Chapter, a reflection on the weaknesses and diseases or weeds and the advances or seeds of life that have been germinating in this six-year period in their respective communities. We asked ourselves: What are the audacious actions that can make a difference in our Province that we would like to see realized before 2027? And some suggestions to make for the process of reviewing positions.