The
General Commission on the Social and Pastoral Care of the Sick, which was established
after the General Chapter, met for the first time on 11 and 12 November 2019.
In order
to represent all the Regions of the Order, the Commission is made up of the
following members: Brother Benigno Ramos (President); Brother André SENE
(Secretary); Brother Francis MANNAPARAMPIL (Asia-Pacific Region); Mrs Susana
QUEIROGA and Mr Peter WEINHAPPL (Europe Region); Brother Théodore SOSSOUE
(Africa); Mr Hector Raúl Valenzuela Becerra and Brother Daniel González (Latin
America Region), and Brother Tom OSORIO (WEONA Region).
This
first meeting was mainly intended to enable the members to get to know each
other and share the pastoral care work being performed throughout the Order.
The head of the Commission, Fra Benigno Ramos, briefed the members on the work
carried out in the previous Sexennium, and urged them to work together to attain
the general objective approved by the Definitory. He therefore asked each member of the
Commission to put forward proposals to work better and more effectively, to foster
pastoral care in the Centres and facilities where it was falling short, and to
boost it where a pastoral care team was already present.
