"Your parish is the world"
(Blessed James Alberione)
From 4 April to 29 May this year, the meeting of the Pastorelle Sisters of the first ten years of perpetual profession organized by the General Government took place in Rome. From the very beginning, sr. Aminta Sarmiento Puentes, Superior General, stressed that it was not a course, but a real Encounter, with the aim of living together, praying, studying and celebrating the gift of a vocation for a renewed missionary presence in the Church and in the world. . To foster the atmosphere of "Encounter" we spent this period in community, in a house of the Daughters of St. Paul, near our Generalate.
The inauguration took place in the chapel of the SSP Generalate, where our Founder had prayed many times, with the Eucharistic Celebration, presided over by Fr Valdir José de Castro, Superior General, followed by a guided tour by Fr Domenico Soliman, Secretary General and postulator of the SSP, at the recently opened Museo del Beato Giacomo Alberione.
The course was organized in five thematic sessions:
Discernment as a lifestyle;
Fraternity and welcome / community life;
The votes;
Pastoral care today;
Openness to the future and interculturality.
We also had online meetings with sisters from different circumscriptions who presented today's mission with a view to the future.
As a pedagogical path, which aimed at a process of experiences and not only of reflection and aggregation of contents, this time was characterized by so much silence, prayer and sharing of life / mission and pilgrimages. We went to Alba to get in touch with our charismatic origins; Assisi - land of San Francesco and Santa Chiara; Subiaco - of San Benedetto and Santa Scolastica; to the four papal basilicas of Rome.
