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Renewing Our Vision Embracing Our Future “Arise,…And Christ Will Give You Light” (Eph 5:14) REPORT OF THE MINISTER GENERAL TO THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR Renewing Our Vision Embracing Our Future “Arise,…and Christ will give you light” (Eph 5:14) BR. MICHAEL A. PERRY, OFM Minister General and Servant ROME 2021 REPORT OF THE MINISTER GENERAL TO THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR Renewing Our Vision Embracing Our Future “Arise,…and Christ will give you light” (Eph 5:14) BR. MICHAEL A. PERRY, OFM Minister General and Servant ROME, FEBRUARY 2, 2021 OFM Communications Office Via di Santa Maria Mediatrice, 25 00165 Rome, Italy www.ofm.org © 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................. 9 PROLOGUE ......................................................................................... 11 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 11 Learning Anew to Cultivate the Garden ...................................................... 12 From Financial Ruin to the COVID-19 Pandemic ..................................... 13 Integral Fraternal Ecology as the Means for Cultivating the Garden ....... 15 Awakening to Our Fundamental Goodness ................................................ 16 Renew, Embrace, Arise ................................................................................... 17 Structure of the Report ................................................................................... 19 Chapter 1: The Mandates ................................................................................ 19 Chapter 2: Animation Strategies 2015-2021 ................................................ 19 Chapter 3: Challenges to Living Our Gospel Identity ................................ 19 Chapter 4: Possible New Directions for the Order ..................................... 20 Epilogue ............................................................................................................ 20 On a Personal Note ......................................................................................... 20 A Special Request ............................................................................................ 24 CHAPTER 1: Evaluation of the Journey of the Order: General Chapter 2015 Mandates .......................................................... 25 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 25 Enduring Values of Our Gospel Life Which Have Given Rise to These Mandates ................................................ 25 The Mandates ........................................................................................... 26 A. Our Identity as Friars Minor ............................................................. 26 Mandate 1: Equality of Friars and Strengthening Identity of Lay Friars in the Order ..................................... 26 A Reality Check .............................................................................................. 28 Mandate 2: Identity of Franciscan Order as a Mixed Institute ................. 28 A Journey of Conversion Within the Order ............................................... 30 Mandate 3: Foster a Culture and Pastoral Care of Vocations, and the Ongoing and Initial Formation of the Universal Fraternity............... 31 Mandate 4: Fostering the Franciscan Intellectual Heritage ...................... 32 Mandate 5: Promotion of Inter-Provincial, International, and Intercultural Houses and Formative Experiences ............................. 35 Mandate 6: Fidelity and Perseverance ......................................................... 37 B. Living as Brothers in Mission ............................................................ 39 Mandate 7: Hermitages and Houses of Prayer ........................................... 39 Mandate 8: Living as ‘Poor and Minors’, Becoming Signs of Presence and Solidarity in Service to the Poor ...................................... 40 Mandate 12: Promoting New Forms for Living our Missionary Vocation Today ................................................. 42 Mandate 18: Promoting Fraternal Life and Mission at the Provincial, Custodial, and Local Levels ........................................... 45 C. Economic Realities of the Order Today ............................................ 47 Mandate 9: Establishment and Work of the International Commission for Economic Affairs (CIRE) (Cf. SSGG 160) ..................... 47 Mandate 16: Providing Economic Support for the Work of the GSME .. 48 New Approaches to Development and Fundraising .................................. 49 Mandate 17: Providing Economic Support for the Work of the GSFS .... 51 D. An Integral Ecology for the Order: ................................................... 53 Mandate 10: Increased Attention to Integral Ecology, and the Preparation of a Study Guide .......................................................... 53 Mandate 11: Implementation of the Study Guidelines of The Cry of the Earth and the Cries of the Poor in the Fraternities at Local, Provincial, Custodial, and Foundation Levels ............................ 54 Mandate 19: Integral Ecology at the Level of the Local Fraternity .......... 55 E. The Evangelizing Mission of the Order Today .................................. 57 Mandate 13: Preparation of Guidelines on Missionary Evangelization .. 57 Mandate 14: Formation for Evangelizing Mission in the Order .............. 58 Mandate 15: Providing Support for the Vicariates, Prelatures, Diocese, and Archdiocese Entrusted to the Order .................................... 60 Vicariates, Prelatures, and Dioceses for which the Order is Responsible .. 61 Our Work is Only Beginning ........................................................................ 64 Challenges to Fulfilling the Mandates .......................................................... 65 CHAPTER 2: Animation of the Life of the Order 2015-2021 ............. 67 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 67 A Brief Word about Integral Fraternal Ecology .......................................... 68 A. Methods for the Animation of the Order, 2015-2021 ...................... 69 Moving to the Peripheries as Brothers and ‘Lesser Ones’ ......................... 69 A New Method for Animating the Life of the Order ................................ 70 B. Animation Guidelines for 2016-2017 ............................................... 71 Breaking of Fraternal Communion ............................................................. 72 Forgiveness and Reconciliation among the First Order and TOR .......... 73 Capitolo Generalissimo ................................................................................ 74 Promoting the Transverse Values of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation ............................................................................... 75 The Cry of the Poor and the Cry of the Earth ............................................ 76 Greater Action is Required ........................................................................... 77 Integral Fraternal Ecology as a New Hermeneutic For Franciscan Life and Mission .................................................................. 78 ‘Opening Up’ in Lockdown ........................................................................... 79 C. Animation Guidelines for 2018-2019 ............................................... 80 Plenary Council of the Order: Listening to the Friars ............................... 80 Franciscan Identity: Uncertainty in Times of Rapid Globalization ......... 81 Inventing a Past That Never Existed ............................................................ 82 In Pursuit of a New Ethical Foundation ...................................................... 82 No Institution Is Immune ............................................................................. 83 Engaging Youth .............................................................................................. 84 Accompanying Youth: Ongoing Efforts Within the Order ....................... 85 Amazing Things Happen When We Go Out of Ourselves ....................... 86 Listening to the Experience of Youth in Taizé ........................................... 86 Learning How to Learn from One Another Along the Way .................... 87 Dialogue as a Way of Life .............................................................................. 88 Dialogue as Vocation: 1219-2019 ................................................................. 89 Fraternities Dedicated to Encounter and Dialogue ................................... 92 Dialogue as an Expression of Franciscan Fraternity .................................. 93 D. Animation Priorities for 2020-2021 ................................................. 94 Implications of the CPO on the Life of the Order ..................................... 94 Responding to the Needs of the Human Community and the Natural Environment ....................................................................... 95 Preparing for the General Chapter .............................................................. 97 Generating a Sense of the Interconnectedness of All Living Things .......... 98 CHAPTER 3: Challenges to Living our Gospel Identity ................... 101 Introduction ...................................................................................................102 A. Prayer, Devotion, and Fraternity .................................................... 103 To Desire
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