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    No. 4 - JULY - AUGUST 1999

    English edition
     

    SUMMARY


    ACTIVITIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL 
    COUNCIL Various meetings Activities of the Carmelite Third Order Chapter of the PCM American Province

    NOMINATED BISHOP OF AVEZZANO IN ITALY 

    TRIENNIAL CHAPTERS OF CLOISTERED NUNS 

  • Monastery of la Encarnación, Saragossa, Spain
  • Monastery of the Sacred Heart, Hudson, USA
  • Monastery of San Juan Bautista, Villalba del Alcor, Spain

    • CELEBRATION OF THE CARMELITE FAMILY
    IN SICILY

    CARMELITE PUBLICATIONS

    NEWS IN BRIEF

  • The new Carmelite foundation in Mozambique
  • More than 30 thousand faithful receive the Brown Scapular
  • New bulletins
  • The process for the cause of canonisation of the Servant of God, Aloisius Ehrlich initiated
  • The Province of England and Wales has a new name
  • Summer courses in spirituality
  • The town of S. Marinella honours illustrious Carmelites

    • UPDATE OF ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS

    CARMELITE MILESTONES

    CARMELITE NUNS AROUND THE WORLD:
    CARMELITE MONASTERY "JESUS OF NAZARETH"

    CARMELITE MOVEMENTS:
    THE LAY CARMELITE MOVEMENT"LA FAMIGLIA"

     
    John Paul II (1 May 1999)


    ACTIVITIES OF THE MEMBERS OF
    THE GENERAL COUNCIL

    Fr. Joseph Chalmers, Prior General

    In the month of May 1999, I carried out a visitation to St. Albert's International Centre (CISA) and then attended the Catalonian Provincial Chapter held in Barcelona (Spain). On my return to Rome, I headed immediately south to Caivano (Italy) for the feast of Our Lady of Campiglione. A few days later, in the middle of May, I was again in Rome for a series of meetings with various groups within CISA and with the Carmelite Institute and the whole community.

    The General Council began a plenary session on 15 May 1999 by meeting the General Council of the Discalced Carmelites at our house. On 22 May I headed to Florence where I spent some time with "La Famiglia". I also presided at a Mass in Bologna as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations of the death of Mother Maria Maddalena Mazzoni, the foundress of the Carmelite Sisters delle Grazie (SCG) The Mass was followed by a round table. The principal speakers at this were the auxiliary bishop of Bologna and Fr. Emanuele Boaga (Ita). I returned to Florence to concelebrate with the Cardinal and many other priests in the Carmelite monastery of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi for the saint's feast day on 25 May.

    On 27 May I went to the Netherlands with Fr. Míceál O'Neill, Councillor General, to attend the Dutch Provincial Chapter. At the end of the Chapter we met with the representatives of the Provincial Commissariat in the Philippines to discuss the process towards the setting up of a General Commissariat there.

    Next stop was supposed to be Chicago (USA) for the PCM Provincial Chapter. However, I got as far as Heathrow Airport in London and collapsed, ending up in hospital for a week. Many people do not like meetings but I can honestly say that I did not do it on purpose just to avoid yet another meeting! I feel fine now and hopefully will be able to have a good rest over the summer.

    Fr. Lucio Renna, General Delegate for Lay People

    On 10 and 11 April, at the Salesian Institute in Castellammare di Stabia (Italy), I led two days of spirituality for the tertiaries of Campania on the topic of "Abba, Pater". About 200 tertiaries participated. Each day there were two reflections on the theme and several moments of sharing and of prayer. Present were Fr. Giuseppe Russo (Brun), spiritual director, and Mr. Piero Sammonte, president. On the second day, a crowd of tertiaries from Caivano joined the participants.

    Then on 15 - 21 April, together with Fr. Wilmar Santin, I held several meetings: with the TOC in Sao Paolo (Brazil), with the Provincial, the "administrative board" of the TOC and the local ordinary.

    Fr. Míceál O'Neill, General Councillor



    Around one hundred and sixty members of the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary gathered during 6 - 11 June 1999 at the University of Our Lady of the Lake, Mundelein (USA), for the celebration of this Chapter, which bore the evoking title of "A new mantle for a new Millennium". The preparatory commission decided to remain with the same themes as the last Chapter, namely, community, ministry and identity, and to build on the work of the last Chapter. The result was a weaving of the new mantle by way of a very engaging exchange by the members of the Chapter on these three topics. This exchange led to a series of influential statements which would be offered to the new provincial administration as a vision statement for the next three years.

    In the elections Fr. Leo McCarthy was elected Prior Provincial; Fr. William Harry, Commissary Provincial of the Western Commissariat; Fr. Jack Welch, Commissary Provincial of the Eastern Commissariat; Fr. Bernhard Baurle, Commissary Provincial of the Mid-Western Commissariat; and Frs. David Simpson, Mike Sgarioto, Fred Tillotson, David McEvoy, Provincial Councillors.

    The Chapter voted in favour of the establishment of a new Provincial Commissariat in Peru. This coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Province's going to Peru which will be celebrated solemnly in July. At the remembrance of the dead, seventeen members of the Province were remembered, all of whom died since the last Chapter. Once again the quality of the preparation and participation ensured that this Chapter succeeded in uniting the Province and giving her energy to carry her into the future with a great deal of hope despite the ageing of the members.
     

    NOMINATED BISHOP
    OF AVEZZANO IN ITALY

    On 9 June 1999, His Holiness, John Paul 11, nominated Fr Lucio Renna (Neap), Procurator General of our Order, Bishop of Avezzano (Abruzzi) in Italy.

    Fr. Lucio was born in S. Pietro Vernotico (Brindisi), Italy, on 22 September 1941 and joined the Carmelite Order in 1957. After the noviciate he professed the vows on 12 September 1958 and on 8 December 1962 he made his solemn profession. He studied philosophy in Naples and theology in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University. After priestly ordination in Bari, on 2 April 1966, Fr. Lucio obtained a doctorate in theology from the Lateran University and a civil degree in philosophy from the University of Lecce.

    Fr. Lucio has written various books on Carmelite spirituality and taught theology in the Marianum University in Rome, at Santa Fara in Bari and at the Institute of Religious Sciences in Matera. Before his election as Procurator General and General Delegate for Lay Carmelites, Fr. Lucio was Prior Provincial for 18 years of the Neapolitan Province, 13 years as Episcopal Vicar for Religious for the diocese of Bari, Provincial and National Delegate for the Cloistered Nuns and Lay Carmelites, and President of CISM in Puglia.

    The ordination of the new bishop will take place on 12 September 1999 at the cathedral of Avezzano.
     

    TRIENNIAL CHAPTERS OF
    CLOISTERED NUNS
      Monastery of la Encarnación, Saragossa, Spain - 5 March 1999
     
    Prioress
    Councillor and Mistress of Novices
    Councillor
    Councillor
    Councillor
    Bursar
    Sacristan    		 Mª Cruz Eguinoa
    Elena Mª Samper
    Magdalena Gracia
    Carmen Pueyo
    Mª Pilar Bort
    Elena Marco
    Sagrario Armendáriz