{"id":5756,"date":"2018-04-25T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/ecuador-visita-e-assemblea\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T07:40:24","slug":"ecuador-visita-e-assemblea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/ecuador-visita-e-assemblea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Visitation and Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 3-18, 2018, Friar Carlos TROVARELLI, the Assistant General for the Federaci\u00f3n Conventuales America Latina (FALC) made a canonical visitation to the Delegation of Ecuador. The Delegation belongs to the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk). In addition, he participated at the Guardian\u2019s Assembly, which was celebrated during the octave of Easter at the San Maximiliano Kolbe formation house in Quito.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The friars of the Delegation in Ecuador hold a Guardians\u2019 Assembly and a meeting of the Delegation Council every year. This year\u2019s 2018 Assembly was devoted to working on the first Four-Year Plan of the Delegation. The Assistant General collaborated in the discernment and writing of the Plan. Its main purpose was \u201cDefining and Reinforcing the Fraternal Life in Order to Build Up and Give Witness to the Conventual Franciscan Identity in Ecuador.\u201d It also touched on specific areas, such as our Kolbean heritage.<br \/>\nDuring the Assembly, the Guardians of the friaries in Quito, Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Tulc\u00e1n and Shushufindi, together with the members of the Delegation Council\u2014Friars Micha\u0142 PAGA (Delegate), Jes\u00fas Eudoro CEBALLOS BENAVIDES (Secretary) and Friar Micha\u0142 SABATOWSKI (Econom)\u2014reviewed the calendar of activities and looked at other aspects of the Delegation, such as youth and vocation ministry, initial formation, some juridical themes and various proposals in view of the development and internal organization of the Delegation.<br \/>\nDuring the canonical visitation to the communities, the Assistant General met with each of the confreres, including the postulants, some groups of faithful and some collaborators linked to our communities.<br \/>\nThe presence of the Order in Ecuador is quite rich and varied. It has several outlets for its evangelization mission, such as its city and missionary parishes (Quito, Shushufindi and Santo Domingo de los Colorados), a Conventual Franciscan church (Tulc\u00e1n), a formation house (Quito), social and humanitarian outreach (Santo Domingo de los Colorados) and assistance to the Militia of the Immaculate (M.I.), the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) and prayer groups.<br \/>\nDuring the visit to the missionary community of Shushufindi in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, the friars joyfully celebrated the 40th Anniversary of priestly ordination of Friar Krzysztof KURKIEWICZ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Carlos TROVARELLI Assistant General for the FALC<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 3-18, 2018, Friar Carlos TROVARELLI, the Assistant General for the Federaci\u00f3n Conventuales America Latina (FALC) made a canonical visitation to the Delegation of Ecuador. The Delegation belongs to the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk). In addition, he participated at the Guardian\u2019s Assembly, which was celebrated during the octave of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[640,641],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-ecuador-en","tag-visitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","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=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}