ITALY
Annual Assembly of Local Superiors

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The FSP Italian Province recently held its annual assembly of local superiors on the theme: The Community: A Place in which To Share the Word and Live in Mutual Love. The encounter gave the participants a chance to reflect on different aspects of FSP communitarian and apostolic life, discuss a number of positive and negative situations, and update the Province’s programming.

Guest speaker Fr. Bruno Secondin, o.carm. gave a very interesting talk entitled: Authority at the Service of Evangelical Communion, Based on the Experience of Paul and Barnabas (Acts. 11:23). In his conference, he offered a number of suggestions to incite our communities to grow in communion and a sisterly spirit, such as:

– to cultivate the quality of our Christian identity;
– to show appreciation for new talents;
– to consolidate the community by improving the quality of our daily life;
– to support initiatives designed to reach “the peripheries”;
– to insist that the members of each community strive to experience the power of “living together.”

At the end of the encounter, the Assembly met with the Provincial Government to discuss problems and emerging situations and discern together how to respond to them in ways that meet the needs of today.