Mission and Charity - The Daughters of Charity (F. Quintano CM)
Presentation by Fernando Quintano, C.M. Director General of Daughters of Charity 3-VII-2001
The focus of this conference will be to begin with a historical perspective, then the present reality of collaboration, with a view to the future.
I will begin by explaining the intent of the Organizing Commission in placing this conference at the beginning of the program for the Vincentian month. It is a question of building a framework that may be used to connect everything we hear and that we communicate to one another during these four weeks. I offer a picture frame in which the volumes and tones of the material will be drawn and painted by all of us in the context of the following days.
The participants in this Vincentian Month are the Provincial Directors of the Daughters of Charity, in other words, the 80 priests of the Congregation of the Mission, whose present ministry is this service to the Daughters of Charity in their respective provinces.
The history of the Congregation of the Mission and the Company of the Daughters of Charity has been interwoven in spiritual, apostolic and juridical bonds since the origin of both institutions. In almost four centuries of existence, each one has maintained its own identity and autonomy, and written beautiful pages collaboratively, in a book yet unfinished.
There are other Congregations, both masculine and feminine, in the Church who also have the same Founders, but I believe that none among them has the fraternal relationship that exists between the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity. In this, we are unique in consecrated life.
In addition to the Superior General as head of both Companies, I think we can affirm that the Provincial Directors are the persons who have most contributed to this mutual collaboration between the two Congregations. In order that this relationship continues in the future and in the best possible way, this month of formation has been organized.
The focus of this conference will be to begin with a historical perspective, then the present reality of collaboration, with a view to the future.
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