A special gift to start the day was the Mass of the Holy Spirit officiated by Fr. Son who invoked this Companioning Guide to accompany us in all that we will do and decide upon this day.
The sumptuous breakfast and joyful encounters with one another prepared us for another working cum discernment day on the 2022 Directory that mandated us to craft the corresponding Statutes on Spiritual Life, Consecrated Life, Fraternal Life, Apostolic Life, Formation, Leadership and Administration with reference to our 2014 Provincial Statutes. But we are not alone because we have as working papers, the proposals from all our Sisters who did the initial discernment in the communities prior to the Chapter days. In small groups of our chosen topic in the directory, we spent the whole morning working on the Provincial Statutes. The Holy Spirit must have been hovering in the room! We were highly engaged and inspired to finish the task at hand. The second gift of the Holy Spirit for the day was the speedy access to the group outputs through the padlet for critiquing and approval. Energy, passion and active participation crystalized what we earnestly desire in order to live faithfully our Canossian vocation in the formulations of the statutes on the areas of Spiritual Life, Consecration, Fraternal Life, and Apostolic Life.
Thank You, Holy Spirit, for the love lavished upon us and for being with us from the rising of the sun to its setting. We paused restfully with a long loving look for all that has been today basking in the gifts which the Holy Spirit poured upon us.