{"id":533,"date":"2019-01-30T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2019-01-30T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:20:18","slug":"world-assembly-reflections-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/30\/world-assembly-reflections-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"World Assembly Reflections &#8211; Day #10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">July 31st<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-envira-envira-gallery\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-wrap-506\" class=\"envira-gallery-wrap envira-gallery-theme-base envira-lightbox-theme-base_dark\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><div data-row-height=\"150\" data-gallery-theme=\"normal\" id=\"envira-gallery-506\" class=\"envira-gallery-public envira-gallery-justified-public envira-gallery-0-columns envira-clear enviratope envira-gallery-css-animations\" data-envira-columns=\"0\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-507\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-1 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 1px; 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padding-bottom: 1px; padding-right: 1px;\"  itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-item-inner\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-right\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-right\"><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/new.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510.jpg\" class=\"envira-gallery-506 envira-gallery-link\" rel=\"enviragallery506\" title=\"zzz3510\" data-envira-caption=\"zzz3510\" data-envira-retina=\"\" data-thumbnail=\"\"  itemprop=\"contentUrl\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"envira-gallery-image-513\" class=\"envira-gallery-image envira-gallery-image-7 envira-normal envira-lazy\" data-envira-index=\"7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510-768x1024-640x480.jpg\" data-envira-src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510-768x1024-640x480.jpg\" data-envira-gallery-id=\"506\" data-envira-item-id=\"513\" data-envira-caption=\"zzz3510\" alt=\"\" title=\"zzz3510\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" data-envira-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510-768x1024-640x480.jpg 400w,https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510-768x1024-640x480.jpg 2x\" data-envira-width=\"225\" data-envira-height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-safe-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3539.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3461.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifecommunity.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zzz3510.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\tGreetings from the CLC World Assembly in Buenos Aires&#8230; on this 10th and concluding day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a bit late in writing and sending this reflection (a bit of long\n one this time!) because of the busyness of the day\u2026 our St. Ignatius \nFeast Day celebrations went well into the evening under our big tent, \nlocal music and ABBA music to dance and clap to!). We also had a power \noutage during dinner until about 11:30. So we were celebrating by \ncandlelight and under the light of the roll away propane heaters. But \nthis in no way darkened our spirits\u2026 it actually made it extra special \nand memorable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we further exercised our delegate responsibilities in voting \nfor our World Exco for the next 5 years\u2026 one of the formal \nresponsibilities as a delegate. Each National CLC community voted as \none\u2026 so there was lots of preparation and deliberation &#8211; both in the \ndays leading up to this day, and during the vote itself &#8211; between \nMichelle, Catherine, and myself. It was a long process, but we finished \njust in time for lunch at 1:00! But that meant 4 hours of voting! I will\n not get into the details of how each vote was processed for all of the \nExco positions, but they did include runoffs if there was not a clear \nmajority. Given our numbers, plus the vote of the present (now past) \nWorld Exco, and the number of candiates, each candidate for their \npositions needed 33 of our votes. It was quite dramatic actually as our \nvotes rounds crept closer to this magic number. As a candidate \napproached the 33 vote mark on the hoped for final ballot there was a \nfeeling of tension and excitement in the air within the tent amongst us\u2026\n then upon hitting 33 votes everyone roared in applause. The tallies \npaused for our excitement to subside. Then the rest of the counting \nproceeded until all the votes were accounted for and the final results \nformally declared. It was like 10 New Year\u2019s Eve\u2019s countdown within 4 \nhours! As each new Exco member was elected, the rest of the new Exco \nmembers came to the front of the Assembly to greet and congratulate \ntheir new confrere, to the delight of us all. All in all, Michelle, \nCatherine and I for the Canadian delegation were very happy with the \nresults. I don\u2019t think we would have changed anything. This was the \nfeeling of all the members I believe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you are probably wondering who these new World Exco people are\u2026 so I will now tell:) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our new President is: Dennis Dobbelstein, from Belgium. He won the \nvote from Ann-Marie Brennan by 44-20. Ann-Marie did not mind at all\u2026 she\n was actually hoping for that result. She desired to keep working more \nin the background. And Dennis feels so much more comfortable working in \npublic, in a good way. He is a very capable and attentive CLC member, \nwith a wonderful and quick sense of humour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our new Vice-President is: Ann-Marie Brennan, from the United States \n(New Jersey). It was automatic that the candidate for President who did \nnot win that vote would automatically be considered for Vice-President. \nShe won this vote with 45 votes, compared with 7, 5, and 7 votes for the\n other 3 candidates. Ann-Marie will be wonderful, warm, and capable \nsupport for the Exco, especially with considerable experience working on\n World Exco already. She possesses a very warm leadership style, and is \nvery informed about many of the issues that are important for CLC. Many \nof you I\u2019m sure would remember Anne-Marie from our last National \nAssembly in Saint John 4 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our new Secretary is Catherine Kinuya Waiyaki, from Kenya. She won \nwith 39 votes, compared with 25 for the other candidate. Catherine was \nin my small spiritual conversation group during this Assembly. I could \nsee she will make a very capable, thoughtful, attentive and prayerful \nsecretary, and by extension also a consultor for the Exco with all of \nthese traits. She also has a wonderful, but quiet, sense of humour. She \nis also very much involved in the secondary school in Nairobi, Kenya, \nthat is run by their CLC.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Exco also has 4 Consultors, and so our new Consultors are: \nFernando Vidal, from Spain, with 39 votes\u2026 Daphne Ho, from Hong Kong, \nwith 36 votes\u2026 Diego Pereia, from Uruguay, with 34 votes\u2026 and Najat \nSayegh, from Lebanon, with 37 votes. Each of these consultors had to be \nvoted for amongst around 20 candidates from around the world. So these \nare considerable votes for almost 70 nations to vote for. Perhaps the \nbiggest drama was Najat\u2019s win. She was a candidate for Secretary, which \nshe had been these last 5 years. She kept dropping down as others won \nthe votes for the Secretary position, the 1st Consultor position, the \n2nd, and the 3rd. She then won the vote for the 4th Consultor position \non the 1st ballot, amongst over 15 candidates. It is not that Najat was \nthe last choice among those who were voted on Exco. It had to do with \nthe Assembly also taking into account where the members came from in the\n world and what language they represented. First came their personal \nqualities and gifts of course, all of whom our new Exco members possess \nin abundance, but also how are CLC World Exco represents all of the \ndiversity of our community throughout the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After al of our voting and prolonged applause\u2026 we descended upon our dining room for a well deserved lunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon we gathered in the centre court outside for formal \nRegional pictures\u2026 under a brilliant sun that had hidden itself from us \nfor a few days. This time of picture taking turned out to become a party\n in itself with everyone taking the opportunity to take selfies with \neveryone around them. After this longer then expected, but wonderful \ndelay, we assembled back in our big tent to listen to the final draft of\n our summary report of the Assembly, which we offered further feedback \nin a Round #2 style of spiritual conversation, and then all roundly \naffirmed. Everyone will receive this summary of our Assembly in the next\n days, and which Michelle, Catherine, and I will explore in more detail \nwith our Canadian community in the coming months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a final appropriation of our Assembly in the big tent, we then \nprocessed to our chapel for our final, and also Ignatius Feast Day Mass\u2026\n which our World Ecclesial Assistant, Herminio Rico, sj, from Portugal, \npresided at. It\u2019s funny\u2026 of all our World Exco members, he is the one \nwho is simply appointed\u2026 by Father General:) Our Feast Day eucharist \ncelebration was moving and festive with wonderful South American music. \nIn conclusion were the thank-you\u2019s and blessings\u2026 to our departing World\n President, Mauricio Lopez, from Mexico, to our new World Exco,to our \nESDAQ facilitators during our Assembly &#8211; who we prayerfully and \ndiscerningly revolved around for the significant part of our Assembly &#8211; \nand especially to our ARUPA hosts &#8211; our fellow CLC members from \nArgentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay &#8211; who worked tirelessly before and \nduring the Assembly to prepare for our arrival and host our presence in \nBuenos Aires\u2026 24 hours a day during the Assembly itself\u2026 many taking \ntheir personal annual vacation time to do so. Many claps, flowers and \ntears were showered upon them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we gathered for a festive dinner &#8211; the second part of it by \ncandlelight quickly found\u2026 then clapped and danced our way into our \nfinal night in our big tent\u2026 by the light of more candles, our propane \nheaters, and the light of our wine. The youth group and parishioners of \nSan Miguel were the beat and rhythmic voices we clapped and danced \nwith:) \u2026with some ABBA thrown in the mix when the power came back on:)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A further will of God that we were also most grateful for in the \nconclusion of our Assembly was the continual returning news to us of our\n Australian CLC President, Jennifer Gardner. We later found out how \nfatal her health had been. But with a quick response from the doctors \nthrough surgery she was able to recover, and even start walking in her \nhospital room. Her family has joined and she will be able to join them \nin her return home. The ARUPA team showed even in this they never failed\n to be of help\u2026 always making sure someone was by her side during her \nhospitalization. During our final day we received a letter of gratitude \nfrom Jennifer, read to all of us, for our prayers and support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle, Catherine and I have planned to stay in Buenos Aires for a \nfew more days, along with our french Canada CLC President, Andre\u00e9 \nRichard. The other French Canadian delegate, the beautifully gentle and \nwise Vivianne Yaghmour, departed to France for a well deserved visit to a\n long time friend. I am staying with the Jesuit community downtown. \nTomorrow evening we will all go to the ballet! It is such a beautiful \ncity to visit and explore &#8211; the Paris of the southern hemisphere\u2026 who \nwouldn\u2019t stay for some more days if they can? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But though we are now tourists for a few days, the gifts, memories \nand appropriation of our Assembly graces will remain and resonate within\n us to bring back and share with all of you over the coming months\u2026 the \ngrace of the desire to deepen our relation with each other in our CLC \ncommunities through communal discernment with each other\u2026. so as to \nshare our gift of Christ-like community with those around us in our \nlives in more receptive ways, as Jesus&#8217; Parable of the Sower teaches us \nto be prayerful mindful of in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t  Photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t    The excitement captured of our new Exco, minus Diego Pereia, \nwho had to depart the Assembly earlier because of work obligations. <\/li><li>The members of the ESDAQ team who led us through the graces \nof our CLC Assembly\u2026. in thanksgiving after our final Eucharist\u2026 with \nour departing President Mauricio Lopez in the background. <\/li><li>Members of the ARUPA team waving to us goodbye as we depart\u2026 clutching Canadian flags like bouquets of flowers. <\/li><li>CLC Australia President, Jennifer Gardner (on the right of the photo), with her fellow Australian delegate. (not taken by me)<\/li><li>Andre\u00e9 Richard and Michelle Mahoney, our 2 new CLC Canadian Presidents. (not taken by me)<\/li><li>Our CLC World Community present to our 2018 World Assembly\u2026 symbolically captured by our presented flags. (not taken by me)<\/li><li>Witnessing our Assembly graces\u2026 which we will strive to share and live out. (not taken by me)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Final 2018 CLC World Assembly blessings to each of you\u2026 from Buenos Aires, Argentina,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trevor\u2026 your Canadian National Ecclesial Assistant  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Please continue to pray for our new united Canadian Jesuit \nProvince consisting of the former English and French Canadian Province\u2026 \nformally united on the Feast of Saint Ignatius.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31st Greetings from the CLC World Assembly in Buenos Aires&#8230; on this 10th and concluding day. 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