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Provincial Assembly of the Comboni Missionaries of Mexico
Friday, August 25, 2023
On 21st, 22nd and 23rd August, the Comboni Missionaries of the Province of Mexico met in the provincial house in Xochimilco for their annual provincial assembly. This year the meeting focused on the elaboration and fine-tuning of the so-called ‘six-year plan’, i.e., the programme for the next six years, based on the work and decisions of the General Chapter held last year in Rome.
The assembly was preceded by a week of spiritual exercises preached by Father Antonio López Villaseñor, a Xaverian missionary. In simple words and using texts from Holy Scripture, the preacher invited us to let ourselves always be guided by the Spirit and God’s will, constantly discerning our deepest motivations as missionaries and as disciples of Christ and St Daniel Comboni.
The work of the assembly took as its starting point the responses to the questionnaires that had been sent to the communities and secretariats. The responses were made the subject of reflection both at a personal level and at the level of the secretariats, with a view to drawing up a plan with five priorities: ongoing formation, inculturation of the accompaniment, missionary formation of local agents, synodal journey and vocation promotion. Lines of action and implementation processes were drawn up for each priority.
The assembly offered us the opportunity to feel in deep communion with our confreres who had recently celebrated t their 25th anniversary of ordination, Father Pérez Cordova Roberto and father Pimentel Guzmán José Alberto (ordained on 18th August 1998), and with Father Contreras Ramírez Crisóforo, who will celebrate his Golden Jubilee on 9th September (he was ordained in 1973).
During the concluding Eucharist, the provincial superior, Father Güitrón Torres Rafael, and all the other members of the province present imparted a solemn blessing of sending-off to the confreres departing for a new mission and to the young men who made their religious profession last May and who will shortly go to the various scholasticates to continue their formation.
