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Meeting of Comboni Missionary Brothers in Nairobi
Rome, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 On May 9-12 there took place in Nairobi, at the Comboni Brothers’ Center (CBC), the triennial meeting of the Brothers belonging to the English-speaking Comboni circumscriptions (APDESAM).  Bro.  Daniele Giusti (picture), General Assistant in charge of the brothers, who was on an official visit to Kenya, took part in the meeting.  His journey will continue on to Cotonou, Benin, where, on May 17-24, there will take place the assembly of provincials of French-speaking Africa.Twenty Brothers – besides Bro.  Daniele Giusti – coming from various provinces of the sub-continent attended the Brothers’ Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  The objectives of the meeting were: finding ways and means of strengthening the vocation promotion of the Brothers; better communications among the confreres of the sub-continent; a better knowledge of some questions concerning the Brothers in the Institute.  The meeting, organized by the CBC, started on May 9 and ended on Sunday, May 12.  In the picture at right, a moment of the sharing, during the preparation of the operative plan for vocation promotion, moderated by Bro.  Alberto Parise.
 
Becoming reconciled with ourselves to be reconciled with others

How to transform our ‘wounds’ into a privileged place of encounter with God and of solidarity with others.

1.  Seeing ourselves as wounded people Our history, especially our infancy, has left us elements of power, resources and possibilities for which we are grateful to our parents and other people who meant a lot to us.  However, the past has also left in us a negative mark whose consequences are present in our daily lives.  In this sense, as a consequence of our past, we all bear some ‘wounds’, understood as elements of vulnerability and fragility, especially to our self-esteem – which defines the quality of our relationship with ourselves – and to our emotions – understood as our ability to love and to be loved.
Our being wounded shows itself in the divisions we have inside ourselves.  On the one hand, we experience a power that moves us to go out of ourselves and to be open to others in seeking the good, on the other hand, it is a power that tends to close us within ourselves in seeking that which gratifies us, a self-centred well-being.
We are all wounded somehow, though not in the same way or to the same degree.  We also live with these wounds in different ways.  The depth and the perception we have of these wounds may be different such as the degree to which we are conscious of them and how they condition us, whether we accept them as part of our humanity and to what extent we succeed in living with them in a non-destructive way.
In my own personal journey I am aware that it is possible to integrate them; this requires a process that is long and demanding but, at the same time, beautiful and gratifying in so far as we experience in ourselves growth in interior freedom, in serenity, in our ability to live with and welcome our brothers in their diversity and in their difficulties.

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World Environment Day 2013

Rome, Thursday, April 25, 2013 June 5th is an important day for everyone in our global village but especially for those of us committed to living the Good News of peace and justice.  World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 and has been commemorated in a different city each year with an international exposition through the week of June 5.
 
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