{"id":13539,"date":"2019-02-20T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/roma-xxx-assemblea-missionaria\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:16:53","slug":"roma-xxx-assemblea-missionaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/roma-xxx-assemblea-missionaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome: 30\u1d57\u02b0 Missionary Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On February 12-15, 2019, the Federazione Inter-mediterranea Ministri Provinciali (FIMP) held its 30h Missionary Assembly at the Seraphicum in Rome. The theme of the meeting was: \u201cAnimated by the Spirit\u2014to Animate the Mission.\u201d The assembly was organized by the Franciscan Mission Center (ONLUS) in Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those attending included thirty missionary friars, two Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi and ten lay people. The presence of the three mission animators from the Conventual Franciscan Provinces of Poland, and the presentation of their experiences was significant. They were: Friar Dariusz GACZY\u0143SKI of Cracow, Friar Robert KOZIELSKI of Gdansk and Friar Eugeniusz R\u00d3\u017bA\u0143SKI of Warsaw.<br \/>\nThe Assembly was conducted in a climate of fraternal discussion. It dealt with various formative topics and covered operational and practical aspects in order to make mission animation more impactful: communication through the use of the media, the process for conducting a Missionary Day and what approach to use in the world of laity and youth. Six presentations were made which focused on the properties of the mission in many aspects: \u201cThe Holy Spirit Animator of the Mission\u201d by Professor Salvatore MARTINEZ, the National Director of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit movement; \u201cThe Mission of the Friars,\u201d a sapiential reading of Chapter IV of the new Constitutions by journalist and writer Friar Gianfranco GRIECO, OFM Conv.; \u201cDialogue As a Legacy of the Meeting of St. Francis with the Sultan\u201d by Franciscanist Friar Felice AUTIERI, OFM Conv.; \u201cFormation Workshop\u201d by the former head of \u201cMissio Giovani\u201d of Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), Mr. Alex ZAPPAL\u00c0; A video presentation of \u201cThe Story of the 85th Anniversary of the Magazine \u2018The Franciscan Missionary\u2019\u201d by a columnist of the same magazine for twenty years, Friar Vittorio TRANI, OFM Conv.; and finally, \u201cThe Franciscan Experience at World Youth Day in Panama\u201d by the Secretary General for Mission Animation, Friar Jaros\u0142aw WYSOCZA\u0143SKI, OFM Conv.<br \/>\nThe Assistant General for the FIMP, Friar Joaqu\u00edn \u00c1ngel AGESTA CUEVAS, and the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Nicholas and St. Angelo in Italy (Puglia), Friar Vincenzo GIANNELLI, spoke about the difficult and dramatic social situation in Venezuela.<br \/>\nDuring the Assembly, the participants visited TV2000, CEI\u2019s large TV and radio network, led by its Director, Dr. Vincenzo MORGANTE. At the end of the visit, a reflection was conducted on \u201cBeing Missionaries in Communication\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Assembly ended with a report from the Director of the Missionary Center, Friar Paolo Fiasconaro, OFM Conv., on the life and activities of the Missionary Center and on the new legal framework concerning the abolition of Socially Oriented Not-for-Profit Organizations (ONLUS) which pass through the Unified Register of the Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector.<br \/>\nA video-recording of the conferences is available at the site of the Franciscan Missionary Center and on the YouTube channel, \u201cCanale Missioni\u201d.<br \/>\n[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjypscEEGGONUKIqKfNgwA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjypscEEGGONUKIqKfNgwA<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Paolo FIASCONARO, Director of the Missionary Center<br \/>\nLorenza CASSANELLI, Secretary of the Missionary Center<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12-15, 2019, the Federazione Inter-mediterranea Ministri Provinciali (FIMP) held its 30h Missionary Assembly at the Seraphicum in Rome. The theme of the meeting was: \u201cAnimated by the Spirit\u2014to Animate the Mission.\u201d The assembly was organized by the Franciscan Mission Center (ONLUS) in Rome. Those attending included thirty missionary friars, two Franciscan Missionary Sisters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,117,148],"tags":[245,249,812,691,693,822,813,352,353,331],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-fimp-en","category-news","tag-assemblea-en","tag-assembly","tag-centro-missionario-en","tag-italia-en","tag-italy","tag-missionari-en","tag-missionary-center","tag-roma-en","tag-rome","tag-seraphicum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95345,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/95345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}