Wednesday 5 December 2018
“To live the Chapter as a gift of prayer. To live prayer as the very heart of the Chapter, not merely as a very essential preparation, nor merely as a very essential accompaniment but prayer as the place where our Chapters are born, from where they are generated, where the decisions and orientations of the Chapter are conceived. Prayer as the place where the Chapter finds it courage, hope, strength imagination, creativity. Prayer as the place to which the Chapter will lead our missionary family. Prayer as the destination.” With these words Fr. David Glenday, Comboni, began his reflections at the beginning of the XI General Chapter of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate (PIME). The XI Chapter (4-29 November) ended on the afternoon of the 29th with the Eucharistic celebration of thanksgiving presided by Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.