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Through listening to religious lead-ership in regional meetings and the annual assemblies. Talking points and questions were formu-lated and sent to each of these congregations so they had time to prepare for our conversation. Most of these encounters were also well prepared by the congre-gations and they proved to be the most fruitful.

Among these experiences, two others stand out: the general audi-ence where we had an opportunity to briefly meet Pope Francis, and the closing of the case of CDF with our sisters of LCWR. May God bless all efforts in our global reach.

B IRTHDAYS &

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2015 May 13Birthday of Fr. Joe

Matteucig

23-Birthday of Fr. Salvador

Cruz Rojo

31Birthday of Fr. Larry Cro-sara

June 8Ordination anniversary of

Fr. Bob Maloney 23Birthday of Fr. Michael

Davitti

23Ordination anniversary of Fr. Joe Matteucig

30Ordination anniversary of Fr. Mark Marangone

Issue 144

May 2015

F rom April 11-19, I had an extraordinary op-portunity as part of the National Board of the Con-ference of Major Superiors of Men to attend the year-ly consultation of CMSM and the Leadership Coun-cil of Women Religious (LCWR) with the Holy See. The photo to the right are the officers of both CMSM and LCWR after our meet-ing with Mr. Ken Hackett, US Ambas-sador to the Vatican at his residence.

We had exclusive meetings repre-senting religious men of the USA in the dicasteries of the Congregations of the Doctrine of the Faith, for Con-secrated Life, Priests, Bishops, Cath-olic Education, Vatican Commission for Safeguarding Minors, and the Sec-retary of State. With with a candid-LCWR, we also held joint meetings with the Congregations of migrants , justice and peace, the Ambassador to the Vatican, social communications, evangelization, and interreligious dia-logue.

All of these gatherings were meticu-lously prepared well ahead of time

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October 14, The 2015 Mission Congress, Witnessing Mission: Called to be Missionary Disci-ples, will explore our baptis-mal call to be missionary disci-ples and how the evangelization mission of the Church compels us to encounter culture. The aim of this Mission Congress is to reflect on what it means to be missionary disciples in to-days world and how we are called by the Gospel to preach and serve those in need around us, whether in far off places around the world or on the cor-ner where we live.

Throughout the four-day Con-gress we will reflect on four main themes: The relationship of the New Evangelization and missiology; the connection be-tween evangelization and the Gospel call to service; how ser-vice is mission discipleship in action; how being missionary

disciples calls us to encounter different cultures in the spirit of accompaniment.

The 2015 Mission Congress is organized by the Catholic Mis-sion Forum (CMF). This forum includes the Africa Faith Justice Network, Catholic Bureau of Black & Indian Missions, Catho-lic Church Extension Society, Catholic Volunteer Network, Catholic Relief Services, Con-ference of Major Superiors of Men, Leadership Council of Women Religious, National Pontifical Mission Society, US Catholic Mission Conference, and various departments of the Bishops conference.

We encourage at least one rep-resentative from each of our communities for this most im-portant event. Our collabora-tion with the larger picture of mission in the US is crucial.

Provincial Spring Retreat together with our Xaverian Sisters

Consecrated for Mission

May 2429, 2015 Miramar Retreat Center

Duxbury, MA Retreat Master:

Fr. Luigi Menegazzo

Social Media and Evangelization Workshop Planned The Communications Board of the Province has put into the hands of the Council the idea of conducting a workshop for the board and other confreres on social media and evangelization.

In the process of planning in the Media Office, we are looking to invite Meredith Gould, author of The Social Media Gospel. At the same time, we are also plan-ning to open it up to Catholic parishes and other Christian churches in the area. We are hoping to have it take place in the fall.

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Scenes from CMSM Visit to the Vatican

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The venue for our upcoming Provincial Chapter will be at Miramar Retreat Center in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The chapter will take place April 38, 2016.

The report of the region for Cosuma is completed and translated. The report fo-cuses on issues around life-time formation of the con-freres. Cosuma will take place in Tavernerio, July 26August 8, 2015. We are grateful to Fr. Salicone for his translation work into Italian.

The council finalized plans for the provincial retreat which will take place May 2429 in Massachusetts. With Fr. Menegazzo, we are expected to be 23.

The council discussed the need for ongoing formation in abuse prevention, an im-portant part of our regional policies. A special program called Conversations that Matter will be used in all our communities. It was developed by the Jesuits and adapted for use for oth-er congregations by CMSM. We hope to implement this three hour program in the fall.

Fr. Chudy presented the invitation of Solidarity with South Sudan to help create a nonprofit board, along with other congregations. Solidarity with South Sudan is intra-community project

Fr. Carl Chudy, SX

Office of the Provincial

12 Helene Court

Wayne, New Jersey 08046

973-942-2975

provincial@xaviermissonaries.org

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Bulletin of the Provincial Council

UPCOMING MEETINGS AND IMPORTANT GATHERINGS

Dialogue Commission, May 12

in Wayne. Provincial Retreat, May 24

29, Duxbury, Massachusetts. Provincial Council, June 8 9,

in Franklin. COSUMA, Julyy 26August 8

in Tavernerio. USCCB Executive Committee

of the National Advisory Coun-cil, August 20 21 in Washing-ton. Fr. Chudy will attend.

National Advisory Council of the USCCB, September 1013. Fr. Chudy will attend.

begun by the USG in Rome. They have offices in Rome and Great Britain, and see to establish things in Washington DC. Sr. Joan Mimaw, IHM heads things presently. After Cosuma, where a report on our sta-tus with South Sudan will be shared, we will decide whether or not to partici-pate at this time.

The council continued to discern topics for our up-coming provincial chapter. Aside from those already shared, the council thought it useful to look more deeply at the mean-ing of our presence in par-ishes and diocesan events.

The council approved a budget request for our par-ticipation in the dialogue conference project at Rut-gers University with Athe-ists and Humanists.

The council encouraged the organization of a work-shop on social media and evangelization suggested by the Communications Board. The media office will organize things for this fall, perhaps on September 23.

The council also discussed the importance of the US Catholic Mission Con-gress . This congress, which only happens every five years, is an unprece-dented collaboration with mission institutions across the country.