On-Going Formation
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Spring 2007
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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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