ROME, MAY 2, 2007 (Zenit.org) - The International Union of Superiors-General will have an audience with Benedict XVI during its plenary meeting focused on “weaving a new spirituality which generates hope and life for all.”
The May 6-10 meeting in Rome will bring together 850 superiors-general of women’s religious congregations. They will meet with the Pope on Monday.
Issues including the environment, interreligious dialogue, laity, migration, refugees and spirituality will be discussed during the plenary meeting.
The president of the union, Sister Therezinha Rasera of the Sisters of the Divine Savior, explained the focus of the meeting with this question: “Contemplating our world, hearing its cries, its needs, its thirst, its yearnings, what is the thread that we, women religious, leaders of our congregations, are called to weave now …?”
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WOW! Is this this first time that this type of gathering of women has happened? I am assuming not, but it must be exciting to see what comes of it.
Our Congregation Leader is heading to Rome for this very event. She told us about it at our Assembly in May. It is so wonderful that religious from around the globe can gather together to pray and act around such important issues!
It is pretty awesome, isn’t it!? The leaders of religious congregations (women as well as men) regularly meet together, both with those in their area of the world and all together in Rome. I would love to hear what happens at this meeting.
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