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CONSTITUTIONS Commentary CONSTITUTIONS: Identity, memory and prophecy Theological, historical and charismatic comments Claretian Missionary Sisters What happens with us is an extraordinary thing that God wants…. (Letter of St. Anthony M. Claret to M. A. Paris 1/30/1862) Our Lord is not asking for anything new in His Church, we are all only asked to fulfill our promises (M. Antonia Paris PR 12) 1 General Presentation The Constitutions enlighten and guide us in Understanding what the Lord wants from us… We must read them and reflect about them with a live faith, Consoling hope and burning charity… We will carefully keep them To be faithful to the commitment We made the day of our profession… (Epilogue of the Constitutions.) It is with great joy that I present you with the work CONSTITUTIONS, Theological, Historical and Charismatic Commentary that has been compiled with great attention, effort and love by some of our sisters. I am sure that its reading, study and prayer, personally as well as in community, will be a source of enrichment and renewal of our life and mission. In Prefectae Caritatis the Church teaches us that the ultimate rule in religious life is to follow Christ. Canon 662 emphasizes that this following must be exactly as proposed in the Scriptures and exactly as it is expressed in the constitutions of our Institute. The Constitutions are a way of re-reading of the Scriptures carried out by the Founders as an answer to the enlightenment by the Holy Spirit. Our Foundress clearly expresses this particular awareness of obedience to the Holy Spirit in her letters: Our Rules and Constitutions are the work of God, not a human invention, and as such we owe it respect… I have put nothing of my head; I have only been the meager and useless tool that the Lord has used… The Constitutions are a written law, but not in a rigid or absolute way in a piece of paper, but in the heart… The written rules represent the laws carved in the founders’ heart first, and then in the heart of those that, having received the same God gift, are attracted to the same charisma. The Constitutions are a permanent call to return to the specific way of following Christ that we must observe as Claretians and also a call to a permanent renewal, because the world changes and every generation has to match up their pathway to the Constitutions, embracing the spirit of the Founders in a new, original way. This insightful work is the answer to the petition made to the Leadership Team, on the occasion of the Triennium of preparation for the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the Congregation. The participation in this project of sisters from various parts of the world has made the timing longer, but the results were certainly worth waiting for. In the section, 2 “What are you going to find?” you’ll find the general content of what and how of the reflection made. Taking into account the enormous significance that living the Constitutions has for each one of us, I hope that this book will be welcomed with the same enthusiasm, spirit of service and of help, as it has been put into it. May Mary, the first and most faithful disciple of Christ, teach and accompany us in this following of Christ, and that the mystery of the Immaculate may drive us to fight evil in any of its manifestations and render us open to joy and hope. Rome. December 8, 2006 Maria Soledad Galerón Superior General 3 What are you going to find? - A commentary regarding points of our Constitutions, from the Fundamental Constitution to the Apostolic Mission, applying them to Formation and relating them to other components of the Constitutions. - A brief RENOVATED THEOLOGICAL, BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL, CONGREGATIONAL AND CHARISMATIC FOUNDATION of each one of the above mentioned aspects of our life. - There are many BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES so, according to the interest or the needs of each particular moment, we may deepen our knowledge through CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, BIBLICAL, ECCLESIAL AND CHARISMATIC SOURCES. Mostly, we have refrained from exact quotes to make the texts more dynamic. - We have TRANSCRIBED THE POINTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS to facilitate its study, and we have made comments regarding the most important footnotes, like the principles contained in the Canon Law or some other texts hard to have access to. - We have included a brief HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION regarding the process of elaboration which our Constitutions have gone through, since the times of our Foundress to this day, not only for its historical value, but to be able to put into context the process and to understand the central points that were carried on until the present. - This is a reflection that has been made with all of us in mind, regardless of age and circumstances of our lives. It might be especially helpful for both the SISTERS IN CHARGE OF FORMATION as well as that IN THE PROCESS OF FORMATION. The Constitutions help us to thing again about our vocation and might encourage us to come up with new ways of being a Claretian. You will see that, although keeping a common outline, each section has a different style because it has been written by DIFFERENT SISTERS. This unity in diversity is the mirror image of who we are. * Historical Introduction and Fundamental Constitution, Regina Tutzó * Consecration and Vows, Jolanta Hernik * Prayer life – Rosa Ruiz * Life in Communion, Ma. Rita Lovecchio * Apostolic Mission, Hortensia Muñoz Many other sisters from different cultures have read and weighed the work, offering their suggestions. Rosa Ruiz, Regina Tutzó and Encarnación Velasco were the coordinators of this work. 4 Therefore, these pages can be useful: - As a tool to reflect PERSONALLY AND AS A COMMUNITY about our Constitutions. - As a means to DEEPEN THE STUDY in a detailed way of our Constitutions. - As a selection to ENCOURAGE MOMENTS OF PRAYER OR SHARING, through the manuscripts of our Founders, biblical quotations. - As a point of view from which we can read and live our Constitutions in a way that, instead of becoming dead word, they will always be light and guide to understand God’s will upon us (Constitutions Epilogue, Page 91). In summary, we hope this work will help you to pray and to live the Constitutions in communion with the Church and with the entire Congregation, knowing that it will never override your personal way of reading them. In this way, the gift that God wanted to offer to the world through your life, will grow and will continue to spread out the great and simple gift that He intended to give us through our Founders and through each one of the sisters that have preceded us. 5 The Process of Composition of the Constitutions Historical Introduction The path followed by the Congregation until the final approval of the Constitutions has been extraordinarily long and painful, as we can see in the history of the Congregation. It was a time marked up by light and darkness, like in any human group, like in the history of the Church. We will describe the main steps, from the first notes of Maria Antonia Paris at the moment of receiving God’s invitation to establish a New Order, until the approval of the current Constitutions on February 2, 1984: I. During the life of Maria Antonia Paris 1813-1885. II. From Maria Antonia Paris’ death until the unification of the Institute 1885-1922. III. Time of renewal and adaptation 1969-1984. IV. Time of revision and consolidation 1984-2006. During the life of Maria Antonia Paris Everything starts with the Initial Experience; that profound and transforming experience that changed the life of our Foundress and shaped it according to the Scriptures. She, herself, tells us: it was here that Our Lord gave me the design of the entire Order (Aut. MP 7). God’s works are always like that – His word is efficient. On pronouncing it, creation starts and it stays active through time and space, sustained by that first Word. And when he wanted 6 to form his Church, his community, he said: “Go…and make disciples of all nations…baptizing them…teaching them…I am with you always (Mt 28:16-20). And so it was (John 14:26). In the beginning, God gives his light, but it is only little by little, along the path of life, that he makes clear the whole meaning of the mission. Such has also been the case in our history. Maria Antonia could never see fulfilled one of her most cherished dreams – the approval of the Constitutions. On February 2, 1848, a century before the approval of the current Constitutions, she starts writing the rules of the New Order. In them she tried to summarize her feelings during that Initial Experience and her daily prayer/contemplation afterwards. She finished them on December 8 of that same year (Diary 32a). Probably she gave them to her confessor José Caixal, her confessor. Most likely he gave them to his friend Claret, who probably had read them prior to his first meeting with Maria Antonia, at the Tarragona convent, on January 1850. After her profession, in Santiago de Cuba (1855), Padre Claret asked Maria Antonia to write the Original Points of the Order (Aut. MP 228) that she had written in Tarragona in1848. Through a letter from Curríus to Caixal, we know that she used those same points and she added some others.1 Caixal had a copy himself. Reading her notes, we can also infer that she was writing, at the same time, the Plan for the Renewal of the Church (Aut.
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