A Call of our Time: Changes in the Constitutions
Rome, Italy. The XXVI General Chapter of the Claretian Missionaries held from August 15 to September 11 in Nemi evaluated the life and mission of the Congregation. Two proposals were raised to modify numbers 120 and 156 of the Constitutions of the Congregation. The required number of votes were obtained, and thus, the General Government presented the new texts of the Constitutions to the Holy See for approval.
These proposals were based on the experiences of the previous sexennium on the need to strengthen the mission of animation of the Independent Delegations, considering their numbers, the territory that they cover and representation at the General Chapter. One of the pre-chapter commissions examined the subject matter and made its recommendations to the Chapter. The Chapter members studied the recommendations in the spirit of discernment on September 10, 2021, as contained in chapter minutes no. 19: These proposals were: