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Spring 2007



A gathering of the more recently professed members of our community� took place at Saint Bernardine Monastery on March 6 through March 8.� The gathering was commissioned by the Provincial Council.� Carl Vacek, Director of Continuing Formation, was asked to plan and facilitate the gathering.� The goals of the gathering included the following:�

1.To reflect on and study the sources of our personal call into the TOR Franciscans by recalling our call to Franciscan religious life and our reasons for ministering.�

2.To review and share understandings of the 1982 Rule and Commentary through reflection on various themes articulated from the Madrid document.�

3.To articulate our present understanding of our Vision and Mission in light of our personal experience and the Resolutions articulated in the 2006 Provincial Chapter.

As Carl so aptly pointed out in the cover letter to these friars, �If anything is going to happen over the course of the next three years and into the future, mutatis mutandis, it will be up to us to make it happen.� If we do not buy into [the strategic plan] or if our conversation skirts around the real challenges that face us, then nothing will happen.�

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