For the whole
week between 18 and 22 of March, the General Curia is hosting the joint meeting
of the new General Definitory and the outgoing Definitory, just over one month
after the closure of the General Chapter.
The main
agenda items will be the study of the Chapter Document and the Lines of Action
in addition, of course, to the Programme for the Sexennium. In particular, each
outgoing General Councillor and the Director of the Missions Office will raise the
points they consider to be crucial for the new Sexennium, consistently with
what has been achieved so far. Consequently, the members of the new Council
will raise issues and considerations the deem most appropriate for the coming
Sexennium regarding the areas of responsibility entrusted to them.
Other very
important matters to the life of the Order will then be discussed, such as the
General Canonical Visitations, the Assemblies of Major Superiors, the Course in
Preparation for Solemn Profession, the Regional Conferences, the Provincial
Chapters and finally the next General Chapter in 2025.
The meeting is also an opportunity to thank and
bid farewell to the Brothers on the retiring Council, who are now preparing to
leave Rome for their home Provinces, and to welcome the new members of the
General Council as they prepare to embark on this new stage in the life of the
Order which already promises to be intense and particularly demanding.
