Meeting of the Europe Commission

 

On 30 October,2017, the Order’s Europe Commission held an afternoon session for its lastmeeting in the present format. As decided that the meeting of EuropeanProvincials during the Assembly of Major Superiors (23-27 October 2017), infuture, the Europe Commission will comprise all the European Provincials aswell as the General Councillors with specific posts of responsibility inEurope, and by one Brother representing Tiber Island Hospital to be appointedby the Prior General.

 

The meeting wasattended by Brother Rudolf Knopp, GeneralCouncillor, chairing it, Brother Giampietro Luzzato, General Councillor, BrotherBenigno Ramos, General Councillor, Brother Joachim Mačejovský, Provincial ofthe Austrian Province and Dr. Carlo Galasso, Director of the Brussels EuropeanOffice. Apologies were received from Brother Alain Samuel Jeancler, Provincialdella French Province and Brother Miguel Ángel Varona, Provincial of theCastile Province.

 

The main agenda itemswere: a report on the meeting of the Order’s Professional Nursing Schools inEurope and the approval of the formation model that emerged from it; the meetingof European scholastics; the European working group on homelessness; the secondformation module for European senior executives; the new structure of the Order’sEuropean organs; the organisation of the meeting with the European Provinces’communications officers, and a wide-ranging report on the international CooperationOffice. The meeting also discussed the ideas that had emerged from the EuropeanProvinces’ meeting on the common European novitiate.

 

The next meetingof the Europe Commission will take place in its new format, that is to say,attended by all the European Provincials, following the conclusion of all theProvincial Chapters in late spring 2018. 



 

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