Italy - Beautiful, intense, fraternal experience of 31st Provincial Chapter of Salesians of Sicily and Tunisia
Messina, Italy - April 2022 - The beautiful, intense, and fraternal experience of the first session of the 31st Provincial Chapter of the Salesians of Sicily and Tunisia involved - from April 22 to 25 - 43 Capitulars and 7 guests. On the last day, after the Eucharistic Celebration, Fr Giovanni D'Andrea, ISI Provincial, and the Chapter members met in the hall for a moment of dialogue. The Provincial presented a document to the Assembly, the result of a reflection carried out by the Provincial Council, which reaffirms that the Provincial Chapter must be lived as a moment of "discernment, discussion, and sharing". The presentation was followed by the intervention of Fr Arnaldo Riggi, Regulator, who thanked the Provincial Council for sharing this reflection, a sign of an ever-deeper "synodality" that also guides the path of the Chapter. The Chapter members met again in the five Commissions to deepen the reflection on the plan to redesign the Salesian presence in the Provinces, in the light of the priorities and criteria identified and of the document presented by the Provincial. The concluding moment of the assembly was an opportunity for the presentation of what emerged in the individual Commissions, as well as space for free interventions by the Capitulars.