December 1, 2005

Dear Delegate,

On June 20^th of last year, feast of our Blessed Mother Consolata, in the name of the General Council, I summoned the Eleventh General Chapter of the Institute.

Having completed now the process of electing the representatives of each Region/Delegation, I am mailing you this letter to invite you to participate in this important event of our missionary Family. The General Directory of the Institute requires that each  member of the Chapter, upon receiving this letter of summon, write to the General Superior to express the acceptance of his mandate as Chapter Delegate.

In my letter of convocation, I mentioned that the General Chapter will take place in São Paulo (Brazil), and it will begin the 10^th of April, 2005, with a solemn Eucharistic celebration. It is therefore necessary that each delegate be in S. Paulo not later than the 9^th of April. It is expected that the Chapter will end around May 15^th, the solemnity of Pentecost. This forecast of the end of the Chapter is just indicative, in as much as it will be the Chapter itself to determine its unfolding and duration.

Together with this letter, I am sending you the Instrumentum Laboris which is divided into two parts:

• The title of the first part is:

This is How I Would Like You To Be:

OUR STYLE OF MISSION

It collects and synthesizes the orientations which the Institute has produced, and which bond us Consolata Missionaries together in communion of life and unity of work.

• A second part follows whose title is:

Guidelines for Consolata Missions

  SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR CONFRÈRES.

This second part was added following the  various suggestions of many missionaries who, while answering the questionnaires of the Lineamenta, did ask for new future oriented guide lines. From all their input, ten working documents were prepared, each outlining a theme.

The Intrumentum Laboris is now being mailed to the Chapter Delegates who, in their turn, are asked to study, with their respective Regional Directions, appropriate ways to stir up and collect further suggestions and proposals from their constituencies. During the month of March 2005, the Instrumentum Laboris, translated in the various languages, will be available to all Missionaries on our web-site.

I am confident that each Chapter Delegate will prepare himself to for this challenge, by widening first of all his knowledge and communion with our religious Family. In fact, each Delegate goes to the Chapter to search for the good of the whole Institute. We will increase during the coming months our prayer to the Holy Spirit, so that He may grant us to be persons able to listen well, and to establish an open and constructive dialogue. We will ask for us and for all the Delegates wisdom to discern the paths prepared by the Lord  to the mission of our Institute, and paressìa which will allow us to make courageous and necessary choices.

I take advantage of this opportunity to thank once more the Regional Direction of Brazil for having accepted with enthusiasm the proposal to hold the General Chapter in Sâo Paulo. I know that they are doing their best, through a very intense work, to make the “Mission Animation Center J. Allamano” a very suitable place for this event, which, in turn,  will allow for a smooth running of the Chapter itself.

I conclude by entrusting you to the intercession of the Consolata and of our Blessed Founder, and I send you my brotherly greetings.

                                                                          P. Piero Trabucco, IMC

                                                                       (General Superior)      

Members

XI GENERAL CHAPTER

São Paulo 2005

“Ex officio” members:

Fr. Piero Trabucco                               Superior General

Fr. Antonio Bellagamba                        Vice Superior General

Fr. Norberto Ribeiro Louro                   General Councilor

Fr. Aquiléo Fiorentini                            General Councilor

Fr. Jean André Benedetti                      General Councilor

Fr. Marco Marini                                 General  Administrator

Fr. Darci Vilarinho                               Secretary General

Fr. Roberto Lorenzatti                          Regional Superior         Argentina

Fr. Michelangelo Piovano                     Regional Superior         Brasil

Fr. Sandro Carminati                            Regional Superior         Colombia

Fr. Rinaldo Do                                     Regional Superior         Congo – Isiro

Fr. José Martín Ruiz                             Regional Superior         Ethiopia

Fr. Franco Gioda                                  Regional Superior         Italy

Fr. Luigi Brambilla                               Regional Superior         Kenya

Fr. Artur Pereira Marques                    Regional Superior         Mozambique

Fr. Leonard De Pasquale                      Regional Superior         North America

Fr. Luís R. G. Tomás                            Regional Superior         Portugal

Fr. António M. Jesus Fernandes            Regional Superior         Roraima

Fr. Álvaro Palacios Arregui                  Regional Superior         Spain

Fr. Giuseppe Inverardi                          Regional Superior         Tanzania

Elected members:

Fr. Horacio López Rubén                     Argentina

Fr. Jaime Carlos Patias                         Brasil

Fr. José Salvador Medina                     Brasil

Fr. Ernesto Viscardi                             General House

Fr. Joaquín H. Pinzón Guisa                  Colombia

Fr. Antonio Bonanomi                          Colombia

Fr. Stefano Camerlengo                       Congo Kinshasa

Fr. Jesús Alonso Alvarez Quintero        Congo Isiro

Fr. Francisco López Vázquez                Corea

Fr. Zachariah King’aru                         Ivory Coast

Fr. Paolo Angheben                             Ethiopia

Fr. Silvano Cacciari                              Italy

Fr. Gottardo Pasqualetti                        Italy

Fr. Francesco Bernardi                         Italy

Fr. Matthew Ouma                              Kenya

Fr. Antonio Vismara                             Kenya

Fr. Vincenzo Salemi                             Kenya                         

Fr. Diamantino Guapo Antunes             Mozambique

Fr. Giuseppe Ronco                              North America

Fr. Mário Alves da Silva                       Portugal

Fr. Laurindo Lazzaretti                         Roraima

Fr. José Luís Ponce de León                 South Africa

Fr. Anthony Ichuloi Oure                      Spain

Fr. Giacomo Baccanelli                        Tanzania

Fr. Thomas Ishengoma                         Tanzania

Fr. Agostinho A. Barbosa Silva             Venezuela

Delegates Brothers:

Bro. Domenico Brusa                           Africa

Bro. Carlo Zacquini                              America

Bro. Alessandro Bonfanti                     Europa