General Assembly ITAICI 1998

July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24
July 25
July 26
July 27
July 28
July 29
July 30
July 31


July 21 Tuesday ARRIVAL DAY

 


July 22 Wednesday DAY ONE Coordinator: Maria Clara

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Opening and Welcome (Maria Clara and Host Community / English and Spanish)

Presentation of National Delegations (Ingeborg / French)

Report of the President (José Maria / Spanish)

10.30 Break

11.00 World Groups: Sharing on Life of National Communities
(Living out the General Principles, events and experiences since Hongkong 94)

12.30 Lunch

14.30 Activity Report from ExCo on:

16.00 Personal Reflection / Break

16.30 Continuation of Sharing in the World Groups

18.00 Eucharist (Ordinary of Campinas / presentation of the Document at Offertory)

19.00 Dinner

Evening: National delegations meet for sharing on the day

 


July 23 Thursday DAY TWO Coordinator: Ingeborg

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer

9.00 Plenary: Introduction to the day

9.15 Activity Report from ExCo on:

10.30 Break

11.00 Input: Linking the reports with goal of this Assembly: search of common mission (Fernando)

11.30 Personal Reflection

12.30 Lunch

14.30 Plenary: Introduction to Methodology

15.00 Meeting in Workshop Groups (of 8 persons each; with named coordinator):

- introducing oneself to each other

- sharing on the most urgent needs of his/her country

16.30 Break

17.00 Cont. in Workshop Groups

18.00 Eucharist

19.00 Dinner

20.00 Meeting with President of the Council for the Laity in Brazil, followed by regional meetings to prepare for meeting with Fr. Kolvenbach

Note: Fr Kolvenbach will arrive Friday, 24 July at 16.30 am and he will be with us till Sunday, 26 July at lunch.

 


July 24 Friday DAY THREE Coordinator: Lanny

 

7.30 Breakfast


Morning Prayer

9.00 Introduction to the day

9.15 Plenary (per Workshop):

Introduction to the day / Listing the urgent needs mentioned the day before;

9.45 Personal Reflection: Each delegate prioritizes in writing these needs - as preparation

for the Workshop Groups

10.30 Break

11.00 Workshop Groups: Sharing on the priorities of needs

12.30 Lunch

13.45 Meeting of Workshop Facilitator with the coordinators of the groups in his Workshop:

to try to find common trends in needs


Workshop Plenary: to hear common trends in needs

16.00 Break

16.30 Input: "Criteria for Mission" (José Maria)


Personal reflection for others to prioritize the 2-3 most urgent needs

Regional meeting with Father General : USA & Canada

18.15 Regional meeting with Father General : Europe

19.00 Dinner

20.15 Eucharist (in language groups)

even. Time to meet in national delegations for evaluation of the last 2 days

 


July 25 Saturday DAY FOUR - Visitors' Day

 


Breakfast

8.00 Meeting of Fr. General with the Ecclesiastical Assistants and the World ExCo

8.30 Morning Prayer (in language groups)

9.00 Introduction to the day

9.15 Workshop Groups

(9.15 meeting of Father General with the World ExCo)

10.30 Break

11.00 continuation in workshop groups (Outcome: prioritize 2-3 most urgent needs which coordinator takes to the meeting of the coordinators with the facilitator of the Workshop)

12.00 Plenary

12.30 Lunch with visitors

14.30 Regional meeting with Fr. Kolvenbach - for Asia-Pacific

15.15 - for French-speaking Africa

16.00 - for English-speaking Africa

16.45 - Latin-America

17.30 Break


Eucharist (presided by Fr. Kolvenbach and including his homily)

(animated by Brazil and Latin America)

19.00 Dinner

20.30 CLC-Brazil's presentation of country and community

 

 

 


July 26 Sunday DAY FIVE

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer (in language groups)

9.00 Presentation of the day and summary of the Commission

10.00 Break

10.30 Talk of Fr. Kolvenbach

Personal Prayer and Reflection: sharing with the Lord alone

11.45 Official photo of the assembly

12.30 Lunch

14.30 afternoon organized in collaboration with the Jesuit secretariats:

Break

16.30 Questions to the panel of speakers

17.30 Break

18.00 Eucharist (Africa)

19.00 Dinner

20.30 Time for meeting with speakers of afternoon session

(Note: Commission will meet contemporarily for presenting a synthesis the next day)

 

July 27 Monday DAY SIX

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer

9.00 Plenary: - Introduction to the day

- Explanation of the Outcome of the Commission

10.00 Break

10.30 Workshop plenary (Facilitator visits all groups - may decide to have a Workshop Plenary at any time to facilitate work)

Workshop Groups:

a) 20 min. of personal reflection: What shall we do for Christ? How should we as CLC

answer?

b) considering together the outcome of the Commission: sharing and discussion/exchange

in order to find answer to need

12.30 Lunch

14.30 Workshop Groups continue

18.00 Eucharist (Europe)

19.00 Dinner


Time for meeting in national delegations for evaluation of the day

21.00 Social evening: delegates are kindly asked to prepare numbers for this evening and to inform Victor Kachaka

 


July 28 Tuesday DAY SEVEN

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer

9.00 Plenary: Introduction to the day

9.15 Workshop Plenaries: To hear all answers gathered in the whole Workshop


Workshop Groups: Prioritizing answers

12.30 Lunch

14.30 Workshop Plenaries: Outcome: Synthesized and prioritized list of answers

16.00 Break

16.30 Meeting of national delegations

17.30 Meeting of neighboring countries

goal for both meetings: Integration of answers from the four different workshops / prioritization /

result to be given to the Commission

19.00 Dinner

20.00 Eucharist (in language groups)

21.15 Possibility of continuation of meeting of neighbouring countries/Meeting with the NGO delegates for those interested

22.15 Final delay to hand in results of prioritization to the Commission

Commission meets for finalizing the result to present next morning

 


July 29 Wednesday DAY EIGHT

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer

9..00 Plenary: Introduction to the day

9.15 Assembly receives presentation of Commission

9.45 Personal Prayer in the Plenary

10.15 National delegations meet to become aware of their deep spiritual feelings regarding the fruit of the Assembly's discernment as presented by the Commission

11.00 Break

11.30 Plenary for the delegations to express their spiritual feelings

12.30 ExCo propose the final formulation of the output of the Commission for the "receptio" (1 vote per delegation)

13.15 Lunch

14.30 Free outing (various alternatives)

19.00 Dinner for those desiring to have it at home.

21.00 Eucharist (Fr. Netto SJ) for those who are at home.

 


July 30 Thursday DAY NINE

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer

9.00 Plenary: Introduction to the day

9.15 Comission Presentation to Assembly: "Our Common Mission"

9.45 Personal Prayer in Plenary

10.15 Meeting of National Delegations to receive the fruit of the Assembly's discernment as presented by the Comission

11:15 Break

11:30 Plenary for the delegations to communicate to the Assembly

13:15 Lunch

15:30 ExCo presents the final statement

16:00 Meeting of National Delegations: First reactions and suggestions for implementation of outcome of the General Assembly on national and regional levels

18.00 Eucharist (North America)

19.00 Dinner

20.00 Meeting with ExCo Candidates

 


July 31 Friday DAY TEN St. Ignatius

 

7.30 Breakfast

8.30 Morning Prayer (in language groups)

9.15 Plenary as General Assembly:

- Establishing new member communities

- Elections for ExCo

12.30 Lunch


Evaluation of this General Assembly (as delegates and as national communities)

Meeting of both ExCos

16.00 Meeting of both ExCos with Ecclesiastical Assistants

17.00 Sending Eucharist

19.00 Dinner

 


August 1 Saturday departure