PACIFIC: MAJOR SUPERIORS ELECT FMA TO EXECUTIVE
SUVA: 19th August -- At the annual Assembly of Major Superiors of the Pacific Islands (CMSPI) held in Suva last week, Sr. Edna Mary McDonald FMA accepted nomination for a two year membership to the executive body. The executive contains both a core Fiji-based group and a wider membership that meets in plenary session two or three times a year. This year's Assembly, attended by 60 participants from around the Pacific Island region, and including representatives from New Zealand and Australia, was focused on Formation. The CMSPI has adopted a joint assembly formula now for some years, where representative groups from the 'constituency' meet alongside and in dialogue with the Major Superiors. It has been found to generate much enthusiasm and serves as a major ongoing formation event in the Religious calendar of the component groups of Religious throughout the islands - there are some 50 such institutes serving 17 dioceses. Meanwhile, an article titled 'My Vanishing Island Home', featuring some of the ecological and environmental problems and the Religious' response to that in the Pacific, has won the 'best feature article' award at the Australasian Catholic Press Association Conference held also last week, in Canberra.
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