Year XI - Number 532 | 26 July 2018
Marist News 532
Marist Brothers - General House - Rome
Strategic Planning for the animation and Government of the Institute Week of Integration between the General Council and the Secretariats During the third week of the Plenary Session, from June 18 to 22, Brother Ernesto Sánchez and the General Council met with the Secretariats of the General Administration to work on the strategic planning for the Animation and the Government of the Institute for the next eight years. The organization of the work of the week was the charge of the Vicar General, Brother Luis Carlos Gutierrez and of the Councilors Ben Consigli and Oscar Martin. Brother Gabriel Villareal, Provincial Vicar of L’Hermitage, was invited as facilitator of the process. Brother Ernesto and his Council, as leaders of the Institute, began to draw up their plan of action, last February, during the first encounter with the Team of the General Administration. After this the Provinces were invited to make an
analysis on the critical themes related with the calls of the General Chapter. This work was done by the Mission Committee. The General Council collected all the suggestions of these groups in a document of 20 pages, which served as the basis to prioritize the critical affairs and the identification of strategies, which are now being judged. Divided into five groups, the Councilors and members of the Secretariats indicated the elements that they judge as fundamental for the animation and the government of the Institute up to the year 2025. The result obtained was the fruit of the clear view of the critical affairs and of a profound analysis of the weaknesses, threats, strengths and opportunities (DAFO), which exist today within the Institute and in society, in relationship with the 5 calls and the 5 areas of action indicated by the Document of the General Chapter.
Genereal Administration • From July 2 to 4, in Lardero (Spain), Brothers Ben Consigli, General Councilor, and Carlos Alberto Rojas, Director of the Secretariat of Mission, are participating in the Assembly of Mission of the Iberian Province. • Br. Libardo Garzón, General Bursar, is participating in the meeting of the working group of MIC & MIUC in Nairobi (Kenya), which is taking place from the 2nd to the 6th of July.
• Brothers Luis Carlos Gutierrez, Vicar General, Sylvain Ramandimbiarisoa and Oscar Martín Vicar, General Councilors, are participating, from July 2 to 6, in the Regional Assembly of South America, in Porto Alegre, (Brazil). • Br. Tony Leon, Director of the Secretariat Brothers Today, is participating in the Encounter of Specialists or Experts in Leadership of
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Marist Spirituality, which is taking place in Valladolid, (Spain). • On July 7 will end, in France, the Program of Formation for the candidates of the Program LaValla200>. Brothers Ernesto Sánchez, Superior General, and Valdicer Fachi, director of Cmi, will participate the last days, together with Brothers Angel Medina and Jeff Crowe, Formators of LaValla200>.