The Order's General Commission on Vocations Promotion and Formation met in Rome on 24 and 25 November 2022, attended by the following Brothers: Brother Dairon Meneses, General Councillor and Commission President, Brother Luis Marzo of the Europe Region, Brother Cesar Arroyo of the Latin America and Caribbean Region, Brother Elvis Do Rosario of the Asia-Pacific Region, Brother Joseph Van of the Asia-Pacific Region (via ZOOM), Brother Leopoldo Gnami of the Africa Region, and Brother Ronan Lennon of the WEONA Region.

Each one of the Regions of the Order presented a report on the work that had been carried out during the year on Vocations Promotion, the state of the Formation Houses: postulancies, novitiates and scholasticates, and Continuing Formation.

Each Region of the Order then presented a SWOT 2022 evaluation of formation (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).  The work focused especially on detecting weaknesses in order to help us to understand and accept them, and to manage them in order to turn them into strengths.

The Regions also shared an evaluation of the work which is being carried out in implementaton of the Lines of Action delegated to the Commission on Vocations Promotion and Formation by the 69th General Chapter.

Lastly, the meeting discussed some of the activities to be implemented in 2023, such as the Week of Prayer for Vocations, participation in World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, and updating the Formation document "The Formation Programme of the Brothers of St John of God" (Rome 2000).

All this work proved to be very enriching, emerging as it did from the real-life situation in each of the Regions, acquainting us all not only with the work we are engaged on, but also making it clear what we still had to do according to the guidelines delegated by the last General Chapter, as well as to meet the needs of the Church today.