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NEW SERIES Nº51 III-2020 PASSIONIST INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN If we want to measure ourselves we must do it on how we share the Cross of Jesus. This phrase from our Superior General Joachim Rego invites us to reflect on how to transmit our Passionist Charism inspired by Saint Paul of the Cross to society. 03 Papal Message to the passionists Pope Francis 05 News from the General Council Rafael Blasco, c.p. 08 Jubilaeum in the world Javier Solís, c.p. Jesús María Aristín New Apostolic Vicar 10 Yurimaguas Javier Solís c.p. Randham: a Mission Close to the 14 Heart of viceprovince THOM Viceprovince THOM 14 From “Missionary” to Friend Hugo Esparza Pérez c.p. 50 years of the Passionist presence 16 with the Indigenous Peoples Juan Rosasco c.p. / Eduardo Ramos c.p. 19 are we willing… Juan Ignacio Villar c.p. 20 A gift to the diocese Rebecca Drake CoNtent PASSIONIST INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN N. 51 - NEW SERIES III - 2020. Editor Curia General de la Congregación de la Pasión Writing and translation of texts Giuseppe Adobati, CP, Rafael Blasco, CP, Alessandro Foppoli, CP, Lawrence Rywalt, CP, Lorenzo Baldella, Recognizing Those Who Promote CP 22 the Passionist Charism. Photographs Vincenzo Fabri, CP, Andrea Elizabeth Velarde Marzolla, Lawrence Rywalt, CP 24 Three questions about Paul of the Cross Administration Ufficio Comunicazioni Brian Traynor c.p. Curia Generalizia Piazza Ss. Giovanni e Paolo 13 00184 Roma - Italy Tel. 06.77.27.11 26 God’s Silence Carlos Aguilar Quiroz, c.p. Fax. 06.700.84.54 Web Page: http://www. passiochristi.org e-mail: commcuria@ 28 The multicultural Passionist community passiochristi.org Design David Isac- St. Vincent Strambi Community Javier Solís The Passionist Nun and Printing Grafica Animobono, Via the “Crucified of Today” dell’Imbrecciato 71A. 00149 Roma. 31 Sr. Miriam Esther of the Sacred Heart, c.p. www.graficaanimobono.it Tel. 06 55285277 34 Daughters of the Passion Sr. Aure, General Superior 36 I Rejoice to do Your Will! Sr. Frances Marie c.p. Special Event 03 Pontifical message to the Passionists To Most Reverend Father Joachim Rego, CP Superior General Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists). The Jubilee celebrations for the third cente- Eucharistic attitude. Your gratitude is the re- nary of your Congregation offer me the oppor- sult of the memoria passionis. Those who are tunity to spiritually join in your joy at the gift immersed in contemplation and engaged in of the vocation to live and proclaim the mem- the proclamation of the love that was given to ory of Christ’s Passion, making the Paschal us from the cross, perpetuate this historical Mystery the centre of your life (cf. Constitu- reality, and life is fulfilled and happy. Prophe- tions 64). Your charism, like every charism of cy is thinking and speaking in the Spirit. This consecrated life, is an expression of the saving is possible for those who experience prayer love that springs from the Trinitarian mystery, as the life breath of their soul and can grasp is revealed in the love of the Crucified One (cf. Ap. Exhort. Vita Consecrata 17-19. 23), enve- lopes a person chosen by providence and ex- tends into a given community, to be implanted in the Church in response to specific historical needs. For a charism to endure over time, it is necessary to adapt it to new needs, keeping alive the creative power of its beginnings. This significant centennial anniversary represents a providential opportunity to move towards new apostolic goals, without giving in to the temptation to “leave things as they are” (Ap. Exhort. Evangelii gaudium, 25). Contact with the Word of God in prayer and reading the signs of the times in daily events will ena- Fr. Joachim Rego, CP, Superior General. ble you to perceive the creative presence of the Spirit whose outpouring over time, points out the movements of the Spirit in the depths of the answers to humanity’s expectations. No their hearts and in all of creation. Then the one can escape the fact that today we live in a word that is proclaimed is always adapted to world where nothing is the same as before. the needs of the present moment. May the me- Humanity is in a spiral of changes that call moria passionis make you prophets of the love into question not only the value of the cultural of the Crucified One in a world that is losing currents that have enriched it so far, but also its sense of love. Hope is the ability to see in the intimate constitution of its being. Nature the seed that dies the sprout of wheat, which and the cosmos, subject to pain and decay due yields thirty, sixty, one hundred fold. It is a to human manipulation (cf. Rm 8:20), take question of perceiving that in your religious on worrying degenerative traits. You too are and parish communities, which are increas- asked to identify new lifestyles and new forms ingly diminishing, the on-going generating of language in order to proclaim the love of the action of the Spirit which assures us that the Crucified One, thus giving witness to the heart mercy of the Father will not be lacking. Hope of your identity. means rejoicing in what exists, instead of com- In this regard, I understand that your recent plaining about what is missing. In any case, do Chapter reflections have led you to commit not allow yourselves to “be robbed of the joy of yourselves to renewing your mission, focusing evangelization” (Ap. Exhort. Evangelii gaudium, on three elements –– gratitude, prophecy, and 83). hope. Gratitude is the experience of remem- I hope that the members of your Institute bering the past within the context of the Mag- will feel “branded” (ibid., 273) by the mission nificat and walking toward the future with a rooted in the memoria passionis. Your Found- 04 Special Event er, Saint Paul of the Cross, calls the Passion of which exalts and sustains us, but at the same time, Jesus “the greatest and most overwhelming work unless we are blind, we begin to realize that Jesus’ of God’s love” (Letters II, 499). He felt consumed gaze, burning with love, expands to embrace all his by that love and wanted to set the world on people. We realize once more that he wants to make fire with his personal missionary activity and use of us to draw closer to his beloved people. He that of his companions. It is very important to takes us from the midst of his people, and he sends remember that “Mission is at once a passion for us to his people; without this sense of belonging we Jesus and a passion for his people. When we stand cannot understand our deepest identity” (Ap. Ex- before Jesus crucified, we see the depth of his love hort. Evangelii gaudium, 268). As our Master and Savior, Jesus is risen and no longer dies in his body – which mystically is the Church; but mysteriously he is also in every human being, to whom he is joined in a unique way in the Incarnation and in whom he suffers and dies again, (cf. Past. Const. Gaudi- um et Spes, 22) – that he suffers and dies again. Do not tire of accentuating your commitment to the needs of humanity. This missionary call- ing is directed above all towards the crucified of our age – the poor, the weak, the oppressed and those discarded by many forms of injus- tice. The implementation of this task will re- quire a sincere effort of inner renewal on your part, which derives from your personal rela- tionship with the Crucified-Risen One. Only those crucified by love, as Jesus was on the cross, are able to help the crucified of history with effective words and actions. In fact, it is not possible to convince others of God’s love only through a verbal and informative procla- mation. Concrete gestures are needed to make us experience this love in our own love that is offered by sharing the situations of the cruci- fied, even totally spending one’s life, while re- maining aware that between the proclamation and its acceptance in faith there is the action of the Holy Spirit. The Mother of the Crucified-Risen One, a figure of the Church, a Virgin who listens, prays, offers, and generates life, is the perma- nent memory of Jesus, especially of his Pas- sion. I entrust you to her and, invoking the intercession of your Founder, Saint Paul of the Cross, and of the Passionist Saints and Bless- eds, I wholeheartedly impart the Apostolic Blessing upon the entire Passionist family and on all those who will participate in the various celebrations of your solemn Jubilee. Please do not forget to pray for me. Frater- nally, Rome, St. John Lateran, 15 October 2020. Info Curia 05 News from the General Council Meetings June 30 – July 3, 2020 & September 14-18, 2020. Rafael Blasco c.p. THE COVID-19 CRISIS 9-18 August 2021: The Council took some time to reflect on the Meeting of the Young Passionists. experience of the COVID 19 pandemic which 21-24 September 2021: deserves deep reflection from everyone. We all International Congress: “The Wisdom like to have things under control and we find of the Cross in a Plural World” (Lateran ourselves in difficulty when we have to face University). something we cannot control. This experience 18-22 October 2021: of COVID-19 has taken control of our lives and Meeting of all the Passionist Bishops for out of our hands in many ways.