SUPERIORE
GENERALE
CONGREGAZIONE DEI SACERDOTI
DEL SACRO CUORE DI GESÙ
________
Prot. N.
190/2004
Communique
No. 1
Dear
brothers,
A
year has past since the last General Chapter, during which the Superior
General
has already completed a number of visits to various parts of the
Congregation:
-
The District of India during the month of September 2003,
-
The Province of the
-
The District of the
-
The
The
Councilors as well have made visits to various provinces, regions and
districts
in the geographic zones committed to their care to make their first
contacts
with the entities that they are expected to accompany.
According
to what has already been established in the planning letter for the
six-year
term 2003-2009, the General Administration will come together in Rome
for two
periods during the course of the year (April-May and October-November).
Now
before the departure of the Superior General for his visits to the
provinces of
South Africa, Mozambique and the British-Irish Province, and of the
General
Councilors to their respective zones, we want to give you some news and
make
you aware of decisions taken by the Superior General and his Council
during the
last two months of their stay in Rome.
1.
Nomination of Collaborators of the General Curia and the
The
Superior General after consultation with the interested parties and
after
having sought the views of his Council has made the following
nominations:
•
Fr. André Perroux: re-nominated as a member of the Centro Studi
for another three years;
•
Fr. Evaristo Martinez de
Alegría: re-nominated as Postulator
General for the
next three years;
•
Father Gonzalo Arnáiz
Álvarez: nominated for three years
as the person in
charge of the Sector of Formation and Communication;
•
Fr. Giuseppe Tenaglia:
nominated as an Assistant to the General
Treasurer for the period of one year;
•
Fr. Luigi Mostarda:
nominated as Local Superior of the Community
of Rome II for a first three-year term beginning on
•
Br. Abbondio Riva:
re-nominated to carry on services in the
Generalate for a three-year term;
•
Br. Antonius Sudarono: re-nominated
to fulfill certain services in
the Generalate for a three-year term;
•
Br. Marek Skorski: his mandate as
Local Treasurer of the
Community of Rome II is prolonged to
2.
The Question of the 5th General Councilor
A
consultation for the nomination of the 5th General Councilor
has
been completed. Nineteen responses were
returned. Given the persons most
frequently suggested
for that task have
difficulty in accepting and given the
suggestion not to have any person named made by several provinces, we
have
decided to deal with this problem during the next meeting of the major
superiors which will take place this coming October 2004, and
afterwards we
will make a decision on the matter.
3.
The Project of the Confederation Between
The
two provinces of
•
one provincial superior, a
provincial
council and a provincial treasurer for the two entities,
•
a single provincial chapter,
•
delegates in common for the General
Chapter .
This
confederation between the two provinces should begin in the month of
January
2006. The project has been well prepared
for and its realization is underway.
4.
Canonical Erection of the URU District
5.
Nomination of Provincial Superiors
•
Fr. August Hülsmann: Provincial of the GE Province for a third
term, beginning
•
Aleksander Sapta Dwi Handoko: Provincial of Indonesia and his Council for
their first term, beginning on
•
Fr. Elio Greselin:
Provincial of the
•
Fr. Juan Carlos Cerin:
Provincial of the
6.
Provincial Directories
The
General Administration has approved “ad experimentum” the first
provincial
directories of the following provinces:
7.
Communities
The Superior
General, with the consent of his Council:
•
has established the new SCJ
Community
of Eluru, in India, in the house which is owned by the Diocese of
Eluru, but
rented to us for the time being so that the SCJ religious can take
courses of
theology in the Diocesan seminary;
•
has proceeded to the canonical
suppression of the community of Padua III, of the
8.
Financial Matters
•
After an analysis of the opinions
expressed by the General Finance Commission, the General Administration
has
made the grants made by the General Aid Fund.
The complete list of the distribution of these grants will be
published
in the next number of Informationum
Nuntius of 2004.
9.
Extraordinary Provincial Chapters
The
General Council has confirmed the decisions of several provincial
superiors and
their councils of convoking extraordinary provincial chapters in the
following
provinces:
10.
Next Tasks of the Congregation
The
General Administration has set up the next meeting of the major
superiors which
will take place this coming October 2004 and has reviewed the work of
the
General Commission for the Beatification of Fr. Leo Dehon.
Two
different letters will publish more detailed information on these
topics..
11.
Planning of the Work of the General Administration
During
the meetings of the General Council of this most recent period, the
work done
up to this point was examined and a set was prepared for the next five
years
that will be finalized together with the major superiors during the
meeting to
take place this coming October.
12.
An SCJ Memorial Day
Following
up on a recommendation of the XXI General Chapter, the General
Administration
has established an SCJ Memorial Day to recall the important personages
of the
history of our Congregation (pioneers, martyrs, and other important
persons).
This
day will be celebrated on November 26 of every year, the actual
anniversary of
the death of Bishop Wittebols, and in homage as well to all the martyrs
of the
13.
The Nomination of a Theological Committee for the Congregation
In
the synthesis of the XXI General Chapter entitled Dehonians
on Missions, the following was written: “furthermore
the General Chapter makes the
following recommendation: the
establishment of a committee of SCJ theologians which Father General or
the
Major Superiors could possibly nominate and consult.”
(cf Dehonians
on Missions, a synthesis of the XXI General Chapter, no. 22). In response to this suggestion, the Superior
General with his Council has named a
committee of theologians who will have the task of organizing
reflection on our
spirituality, by engaging confreres specialized in the various areas of
theology.
The
persons who make up this committee are the following:
Frs. Gonzalo Arnáiz (from the Region of
Venezuela-president)
André Perroux (EF), Joseph Famerée (EF), Stefan
Tentünte (GE), Marcial
Maçaneiro (BC), Marcello Neri (IS).
The
committee will get together to begin their work after the meeting of
the major
superiors to begin their work.
We
conclude this letter with a warm greeting on the approach of the Feast
of the
Sacred Heart with its promise that beatification of Father Dehon, which
is
close, can serve as an important moment in our life as SCJ religious
and for
the entire Congregation for a renewal of our charism.
Fraternally
in the Sacred Heart,
Fr.
José Ornelas Carvalho, scj
Superior
General & his Council