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Pax Et Bonum PaxPax etet bonumbonum G A Z E T T E O F F I C E O F OF CAPUCHIN ASSISTANCE INFORMATION A P R I L 2 0 1 5 T O T H E CAPUCHINS SISTERS Message of the General Minister Dear Sisters, heaviness of our communities sincere relationship with the I send to that are always growing Lord. you these smaller, when we feel the Thus, dear sisters, I have the brief lines weight of the years, when we joy of wishing you a good and The shared for this depend on others, and when holy Easter and of knowing in way coming Easter, wishing to we feel the difficulty of living you yourselves, in your daily take a point from a book together? It seems to me giving of yourselves, how The roots for published in Switzerland on something very simple; we give beautiful it is to follow in the him all of this and we give it to a going out the occasion of the year footprints of our Lord Jesus him without hesitations, with Church dedicated to consecrated life. even to the cross and beyond. Originally written in French, love! In this consists a life full Happy Easter! of joy. Do you recall that Pope Capuchin it has the title, “To love is to Br. Mauro Jöhri, General Minister give all”! The book contains Francis has said many times Friars of the Capuchins brief testimonies of that consecrated persons are marked by a deep joy? This has Training consecrated women and men and is richly illustrated with its roots in an honest and international photos of smiling and happy project religious. Yes, ‘to love is to Garbatella make a gift of everything,’ and in this path toward The process Easter no one more than of Maria Jesus reminds us of this Lorenza truth. In fact, he, having loved us, loved us to the end. Even Longo unto death on the cross. The Solidarity: St. resurrection at Easter illuminates the event of the Veronica fund cross as the love that saves. It is not the suffering that Statistics saves us, but only suffering that is lived in love. Thus the cross becomes a glorious cross! We have embraced the religious life, we have decided then to love and, in consequence, to give all of ourselves to the Lord and to humanity. What can we give him when we feel the P A G E 2 Diligent care and special solicitude Dear Sisters, I am beginning my brother predecessors…a years old and I have been living my service as Delegate of the special thanks to Br. Juan in the General Curia of the General Minister for the María Castro, who for eight Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Sisters and the years has accompanied you Capuchin in Rome since Institutes aggregated to our with a generous commitment November 2014. May it please Order. With some of you I and helped with formation. I God that we meet in the not am already acquainted, but hope also to be able to so distant future. In the name the majority I have not yet incarnate and represent the of all my brothers of the met. It is my wish to come relations that unite our Order, I want, as much as is to each of you with a warm Orders in the same charism. possible, to reflect in my own and affectionate greeting at I entrust myself to your person the promise made by this Easter, that we might prayers and to the dedication St. Francis to St. Clare and to feel like true brothers and of all of you. In this first her sisters: “I resolve and sisters. I am content in the meeting, I want to tell you promise for myself and for my Br. Leonardo Ariel service entrusted to me and I that I am Br. Leonardo, from brothers always to have the same González, OFMCap hope to carry it out as did Argentina, I am forty-four loving care and special solicitude for you as for them.” The shared way The monastery of the Holy Cross I want to share some The sisters from Cittá di Assisi is the presence of the reformed footprints of the fraternal Castello have the great Capuchin Poor Clares in the city way spent with the sisters in mission of keeping and of our holy founders Francis and making present to us the this time, with diverse visits Clare. It’s a large fraternity and meetings… memory of Saint blessed with vocations, whose Veronica Giuliani and mission is very special for all our blessed Florida Cevoli. Order, testifying to our mother Cittá di Castello With their simple and Saint Clare’s memory of fidelity welcoming fraternity, in and to the noble Capuchin a holy way, they help so tradition. The Monastery, many people to find God founded in 1723 has the particularity of being German every day. speaking. The Monastery of Good Jesus, in Gubbio, has Gubbio celebrated 25 years of perpetual adoration, in their specificity of Sacramentary Capuchins, a re- foundation with Mexican help, which has continued the long life history of the capuchin sisters in this place, so loved by the Franciscan tradition. A P R I L 2 0 1 5 P A G E 3 The shared way ago, at the beginning of the Lent, the Rome, Garbatella f r a t e r n i t y w a s increased with the arrival of the sisters from Santo Urbano Monastery at Via Aurelia Antica, Rome, that has been closed. A painful fact that is a fruit of a discernment made with a strong spirit of faith. This is The fraternity of the Most Holy a testimony for all of us. several countries who are living the experience of the Body of Christ Monastery, in To the stable community are “Garbatella project” of superior study at the Pontifical Garbatella, Rome consists of 25 added the student sisters from Antonianum University, at the same time carrying out sisters at the present. A few days an intense intercultural coexistence, very useful for discovering a wider sense of the fraternity. The Garbatella Monastery depends directly on the Fabriano General Minister. The Capuchin nuns’ fraternity of the “Saint Romualdo” Monastery in Fabriano, coexists every day with the historical memory of more than 1000 years of monastic life in that place and the challenge of recreating the gift of this presence for today’s society. With a very cared for and beautiful liturgy and the accompaniment of the people in the celebration, we have shared the whole Christmas week, in a climate of fraternal joy. San Giovanni Rotondo The president from the American Confederation, Sister Maria de The monastery of “Risen Christ” Lourdes García and the at San Giovanni Rotondo, in the president of the Federation of shadow Saint Pio’s shrine and the South America, Sister Olga House Sollievo della Sofferenza, Martinez have visited Italy. provides the beautiful testimony Sister Hilda Lopez, president of of joy in the Lord. With the presence of Chilean sisters who the Federation Immaculate have joined the Italian ones the Conception and Saint Francis, of sisters form just one fraternity in Mexico, came as well. Thank you the “holy unity” wanted by Saint for caring the sisters sent to the Clare. An oasis for so many different missions in so many searchers of God that come to places. Father Pio, full of so much suffering. P A G E 4 THE ROOTS FOR A GOING OUT CHURCH Pope Francis insists on calling us to contemplative life, what does sense of mystery (EG 275-280) be an evangelizing church, burning in this time marked by the need To experience the spiritual the heart for communicating the of evangelization mean? In taste of being people (EG 268- message of salvation to all. which specific way be a part 274) Repeatedly he has talked about a of this “going out” church? To believe in the missionary “going out” To be a true missionary church, force of intercession (EG 281- Christian it is necessary to 283). that’s to say have a strong spirituality and one that will an authentic mystique. And It is a big challenge to offer to be disposed we are invited to live and the Church today our daily to go to the offer to everybody this experience on these aspects missions and contemplative testimony. and thus “support the with the drooping limbs of his ineffable doors open To renew our daily body”, as Saint Clare says. to receive encounter with Jesus Christ (EG 3; 264) The dynamism of a going out so many church is also a downward brothers in To re-discover the mystique movement, deeper, with more need. of living together in fraternity roots, to support in the Lord For the (EG 87-92) the whole tree and to give To live the reality with a authentic fruits. I hope that each one of our fraternities could Some key words to live this year in each live deeply the grace of this year for offering This year 2015 gives a very special community: the wealth of our renewed charism. First of all grace for all the consecrated people. to our spiritual family, especially the secular Joy The goals for this year are three: persons that feed from the monastery Awaken the world spirituality and that share the charism. It is To look the past gratefully also very important to renew our link with the To be experts in communion To live the present with diocesan church, with its pastors and its To go out of ourselves different groups and with the members of passion God’s people.
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