1) Giving the opportunity to Guanellian formators to enrich their ministry
from important ideas of the Sciences of Formation, from the Christian
anthropology, and from the Guanellian spirit that emerges from the
Ratio Formationis of the Servants of Charity approved during the last
18
th
General Chapter (July 2006).
2) Verifying and giving better directions to their formative attitudes, in
view of being more comfortable in their ministry, and above all to be
more effective in their service to the Church, to the Institute and to
those they are accompanying in their vocation journey.
3) Evaluating – according to the personal attitudes – the opportunity of
continuing a deeper study on the theoretical-practical guidelines
provided by the course, with the help of the Major Institute for
Formators sponsored by the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical
Gregorian University in Rome or its branches present in all the nations.
The general contents:
– The Christian life as dialogue of God with man.
– The human person in the interpersonal relationships.
– The human person in relation to a group and journeying towards God.
There will be three teams, which will offer their contribution to the course:
– Academic Team: confreres and professors who have already completed
the entire course at the Gregorian University will expand the themes
proper to the course.
– Charismatic Team: confreres and Sisters already involved in the field of
study of our charism will alternate in offering reflections on the charism
and the Guanellian spirituality.
– Biblical Team: confreres who will conduct the meditations on the Word
of God during the course.
Keeping in mind the necessity of the participants, the course will have the
possibility of simultaneous translation. For the next three years, the on-going
formation course for all confreres, begun during the last six-year term, is
suspended in order to give absolute priority to the formation of Formators. We
wish that this new occasion, that the Congregation offers to our formators, be
welcomed and attended with enthusiasm by many.
b) Synthesis of the evaluation
We need to give thanks to God for this rich and healthy experience for all
participants.
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There was a praiseworthy commitment from all participants in their
attendance to school, study, prayer and fraternal life. Certainly we could have
done better in organizing it, but I say “from the bottom of my heart” that this
experience was certainly an occasion of growth and grace for all of us, for the
participants and for the entire Congregation which, starting from its formators,
feels the necessity to give more space and time to its preparation to welcome and
accompany those whom the Good Lord sends to our religious family to carry on
the charism of charity.
From the feedback forms given to the participants on five questions (prayer,
fraternity, classes, contents, instant translation, food), the answers were totally
positive. About the contents of the course, requests were made to give more
exposure to themes on charism and on Guanellian spirituality; to give more time
in accompanying the formators for the integral reading of the Ratio Formationis;
to promote greater dialogue on the theme of inculturation of the Ratio.
Concerning the method, many participants requested more space for practice,
analysis of concrete cases, workshop dynamism, sharing among participants,
work inside language groups; more space for personal study; reduction of
presentations, and giving more time to personal assimilation and revision.
Father U
MBERTO
B
RUGNONI
Vicar General
10. Toward the Canonization of Father Guanella and the
Beatification of Bishop Aurelio Bacciarini
Father Guanella
On 19 February 2007, the process for a presumed miracle obtained through
the intercession of Blessed Louis Guanella was concluded in the archdiocesan
curia of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. The documents were
sealed in the presence of the president of the diocesan tribunal Msgr. Graham,
who was appointed by the archbishop of Philadelphia, Card. Justin Francis
Rigali, the postulator general for the cause of saints of our Institute, and the vice
postulator, Father Pietro di Tullio, who followed the process closely, being a
resident in the USA. They were given to the postulator general with the charge
of carrying them to Rome and to the Congregation for the canonization of saints.
The miracle continues to remain “presumed” until the Holy Father will
declare the extraordinary intervention of God through the intercession of Father
Guanella.
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In this regard various steps were taken to solicit the intervention of the
Holy Father to obtain the great joy of celebrating our beloved Founder as a Saint
during the Centenary of his consecration to God and that of his first
collaborators. A petition letter signed by the Mother General, the Superior
General and the General Postulator was sent to the Pope and now we await an
answer.
Bishop Aurelio Bacciarini
If Bishop Bacciarini would had lived some centuries ago, he would have
been already a saint. At the moment of his death, the fame of holiness was so
popular that the people of God would not have hesitated to proclaim him a saint
for the intensity of his love towards God, and the heroism of his charity towards
the poorest of his neighbor.
Until few decades ago, the canonical process was very long and some of it
remains as such. The Church, “mother and teacher”, until 1969 indicated that the
process in view of the beatification should began only after some years of the
death of a holy person. John Paul II modified the praxis, but left, without
wanting, some processes as they were before. Now there is a double way of
making saints: the one regarding historical processes, and the one regarding
more recent processes.
Think about Madre Teresa, about Escrivà. Recently at the funeral of the
Pope here were people in St. Peter’s Square shouting: “Immediately Saint!” The
process of Bishop Bacciarini follows the itinerary prepared by Paul VI in 1969.
With the apostolic constitution of 23 January 1983, John Paul II accelerated the
procedures. However, the process of Bacciarini falls under the old rules, and
therefore the journey is slow. With the presumed miracle, attributed to Bishop
Bacciarini for healing of a tumor Mrs. Maria Polli of Lugano, the stage of the
process has began to move after a long silence. The previous period was not a
time of laziness, but time spent in producing documentations, studies,
evaluations and witnesses. It is to be underlined that the presumed miracle
happened exactly in Lugano, and that Mrs. Maria Polli, as a child, had known
Bishop Bacciarini.
On 30 March 2007, the Congress of theologians was held to examine the
heroic character of the Christian virtues practiced by Bishop Bacciarini during
his life. The practice of faith, hope and charity towards God and his relationship
with neighbor were evaluated, so also the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice,
fortitude, and temperance. The opinion of the consulters was positive. Bishop
Bacciarini practiced the Christian virtues in a praiseworthy manner, and could be
presentedto the faithful as an example.
The heroic character of virtues is an important step. Now, the opinion of the
theologians, the evaluation of the Promoter of the faith, Msgr. Sandro Corradini,
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