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  1 Pre    |             The First International Congress of young religious, held
  2 Pre    |          the consecrated life.~This congress, attended by 840 religious
  3 Pre    |           time of the International Congress on the Religious Life, which
  4 Pre    |          begun for an International congress in which they would be the
  5 Pre    |      greeting at the opening of the congress the two Presidents asked
  6 Pre    |            to you the fruit of this congress which was prepared with
  7 Pre    |   difficulties and lack of time the congress ended without a single message.
  8 Pre    |            youthful concerns of the congress’ participants is that of
  9 Pre    |             after the International Congress of young Religious the USG
 10 Pre    |             had participated in the congress were heard and a fruitful
 11 Pre    |             language groups for the congress presented their impressions
 12 Pre    |     analysis of the contents of the congress and the presentation of
 13 Pre    |            of the speakers from the congress: Fathers Amedeo Cencini
 14 Pre    |             service provided to the Congress by communications and an
 15 Pre    |           keeping the spirit of the Congress alive and active. The assembly
 16 Pre    |          the main material from the Congress and the USG Assembly in
 17 Gre    |      Secretariat as a result of the Congress for young Religious. ~The
 18 Gre    |            precisely to discuss the Congress for young Religious while
 19 Gre    |         Superiors General too. This Congress reflects the feelings of
 20 Gre    |             to take account of this Congress and it also aims to set
 21 Gre    |          give us some echoes of the Congress, but which will allow us
 22 Gre    |          those who took part in the Congress itself, beginning with the
 23 Gre    |           young people and on their Congress, we can also prepare the
 24   1    |             YOUNG RELIGIOUS, ~FIRST CONGRESS WITNESSES~
 25   1,  1|           preparation for a certain congress for religious. My immediate
 26   1,  1|             a meeting regarding the congress of the young religious.
 27   1,  1|            slogan and theme for the congress of the young religious that
 28   1,  1|             part : An international congress for the young religious
 29   1,  1|             thing to realize that a congress for the young religious
 30   1,  1|           days and the place of the congress, the theme for each day,
 31   1,  1|     material for the members of the congress and translations. Some of
 32   1,  1|            the final message of the congress. It’s only more than evident
 33   1,  1|            mere participants of the Congress, but were the backbone of
 34   1,  1|           official languages of the Congress - English, French, German,
 35   1,  1|      contention in some groups. The Congress itself was made an ecumenical
 36   1,  1|      simultaneous translations.~Our Congress consisted of six day program (
 37   1,  1|              The day began with the congress anthem, sung and danced
 38   1,  1|            their impressions of the Congress to the public. The day and
 39   1,  1|             public. The day and the congress ended with the messages
 40   1,  1|            the earth. ~For me, this Congress has been a big success,
 41   1,  1|             goals set forth for the Congress : sharing, fraternal celebration
 42   1,  1|         faiths.~Every moment of the Congress was a celebration of our
 43   1,  2|             When we speak about the Congress of young religious, the
 44   1,  2|          manner, I believe that the Congress could be the first step
 45   1,  2|       meeting: "the experience of a congress, so much enriched by the
 46   1,  2|         life." I would add that the Congress leads us to have a more
 47   1,  3|            same enthusiasm. ~At the Congress, all of us felt part of
 48   1,  3|             I would say that at the Congress I experienced the beauty
 49   1,  3|        other congregations. ~At the Congress all of these helped me,
 50   1,  4|           omi~Looking back over the congress it is not difficult to see
 51   1,  4|        expectation. The life of the congress began as the young people
 52   1,  4|  apprehension as to what flavor the congress was to take and how it was
 53   1,  4|          shared our visions for the congress and our vocation stories.
 54   1,  4|           was the real heart of the congress. Young people who had stories
 55   1,  5|            the recent international congress of young women and men religious
 56   1,  5|           during this international congress. ~Almost two months have
 57   1,  5|            already passed since the congress, but I cannot forget one
 58   1,  6|             how young people at the Congress received the challenge of
 59   1,  6|             young religious at this Congress have demonstrated these
 60   1,  6|           is at this point that our Congress became enthusiastic, from
 61   1,  6|   opportunity of this international Congress and for taking the risk
 62   1,  7|   participants at the International Congress of Young Religious. ~From
 63   1,  7|       invited to participate in the Congress right up to this moment,
 64   1,  7|           shown in calling for this Congress and in giving us this possibility
 65   1,  7|            young religious gave the Congress a climate of liberty and
 66   1,  7|             of the fifth day of the Congress. The theme of the reflection
 67   1,  7|        exposition, presented to the Congress, almost ‘first hand’, the
 68   1,  7|     approached me at the end of the Congress and said to me under her
 69   1,  7|            under her breath: " This Congress will not have an official
 70   1,  8|         errors. At one point in the Congress a rather provocative pun
 71   1,  8|     richness. The objectives of the Congress would be better met with
 72   1,  8|            is a part of growth. The Congress has been realized with a
 73   1,  8|       member spoke ironically of a "Congress of old people for old people"
 74   1,  8|        follow up of VIDIMUS DOMINUM Congress at the local level, someone
 75   1,  8|        assembly; he appreciated the Congress global presentation, and
 76   1,  8|          were active members of the Congress preparation ( Superior generals
 77   1,  8|            large commitment for the Congress at all levels. This fact
 78   2    |         were at the VIDIMUS DOMINUM Congress as moderators, for two of
 79   2,  1|            not here to evaluate the congress and its dynamics nor to
 80   2,  1|          the young religious on the Congress. You heard them yourselves
 81   2,  1|       invited to participate in the Congress and to breathe the freshness
 82   2,  1|            as a major wealth of the Congress was the interaction among
 83   2,  1|           and it was clear that the Congress was not geared to handling
 84   2,  1|     understanding. Here is what the Congress was about: listening and
 85   2,  1|          desperately she wanted the Congress to proclaim this message
 86   2,  1|           prepared liturgies of the congress, the suspected manipulation
 87   2,  1|              not interested in this Congress? Why was the Mass at St.
 88   2,  1|       Finally, and personally, this Congress has helped me to re-look
 89   2,  1|             of my experience at the Congress I was made to look at my
 90   2,  1|             believe that since this Congress I have been given the gift
 91   2,  2|            What was the use of this congress? What did it produce?~Perhaps
 92   2,  2|           belonging. Throughout the congress they expressed confidence,
 93   2,  2|             young people during the congress is that of communion in
 94   2,  2|           live it. The fruit of the congress - they themselves said -
 95   2,  2|       experienced this, during this congress." "I have not seen the Lord...
 96   2,  2|             to me at the end of the Congress: "Sometimes one may feel
 97   2,  2|        suggestion: an international congress for young religious... something
 98   2,  3|    highlighted in the course of the Congress and which they now carry
 99   2,  3|          the very first days of the Congress. They became aware that
100   2,  3|             the participants of the Congress spoke strongly of their
101   2,  3|             young religious of this Congress did not only speak but shouted
102   2,  3|           and the theme song of the Congress lifted the spirits of all
103   2,  3|            this First International Congress of Young Religious. Hopefully,
104   2,  3|    Religious. Hopefully, this First Congress will not be the last.~ ~
105   2,  4|          consensus message from the Congress seems to confirm it. ~We
106   2,  4|             Frank Santucci said the Congress experience confirmed his
107   2,  4|             the young people in the Congress between "formation and conformation".
108   2,  4|        reading of the International Congress of Young Women and Men Religious
109   2,  4|         four organizers of the same Congress, Fathers Cencini and Veilleux.~ ~
110   3    |       COMMENTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF YOUNG RELIGIOUS~- Father
111   3,  0|          religious who attended the congress as well as individual reflections,
112   3,  0|     elements which emerged from the Congress, from the reactions of the
113   3,  0|             which emerges from this Congress, the idea of the consecrated
114   3,  0|          and impassive, yet at this congress we have seen them afire
115   3,  0|          themselves emerged at this congress, both at the level of content (
116   3,  0|      possibilities emerged from the congress: weak thought and strong
117   3,  0|             there were those at the congress who would have liked the
118   3,  0|      involved in the dynamic of the congress, there were those who stayed
119   3,  0|         Consecrated Life~2.1 - This Congress has, above all, confirmed
120   3,  0|        dimension. In this sense the Congress resounded with the idea
121   3,  0|             service surfaced in the congress; it is also to be lived
122   3,  0|          young people attending the congress, "Mission and community
123   3,  0|             although present at the Congress and in the world of young
124   3,  0|             who live alone that the Congress has meant a great shot of
125   3,  0|             for formation~4.1 - The Congress, as we have just said, has
126   3,  0|             young people during the Congress. At the beginning they were
127   3,  0|          asked for an international congress just for them. Others spoke
128   3,  0|      appeals which emerged from the Congress, I would suggest that the
129   3,  0|   presentation, like the one in the Congress, causing criticism of his
130   3,  1|             THE YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE CONGRESS~- Father Armand Veilleux,
131   3,  1|    reflection?~I was present at the Congress each morning. This enabled
132   3,  1|            able, however, after the Congress, to read all the group reports,
133   3,  1|        young people who came to the Congress. This gives much hope for
134   3,  1|         young people present at the Congress represent the young of our
135   3,  1|            I believe that in such a Congress, when I was under thirty,
136   3,  1|          the general dynamic of the Congress~Such a Congress could have
137   3,  1|      dynamic of the Congress~Such a Congress could have been conceived
138   3,  1|              We wanted this to be a Congress of young people where they
139   3,  1|         testimonies we heard at the Congress were, on the whole, excellent,
140   3,  1|           these young people at the Congress - and this is probably characteristic
141   3,  2|           reminded the value of the Congress proposals and its impact
142   3,  2|           objections concerning the Congress methodology, above all,
143   4    |  COMMUNICATION DURING~AND AFTER THE CONGRESS~- P. Carlos GARULO, sdb~
144   4,  0|    Communications Committee for the Congress: Fr. José M. Arnais, Marianist,
145   4,  0|           us: journalists - on the "Congress Journal" and in relations
146   4,  0|         COMMUNICATIONS PLAN FOR THE CONGRESS~1.Communications - a last
147   4,  0|          cry for help~The facts~The Congress as whole had already been
148   4,  0|         only four months before the Congress (29 September) including
149   4,  0|          break.~Preparation for the Congress had begun in January 1996.~
150   4,  0|          make a contribution to the Congress in the following, or similar,
151   4,  0|        media? Or think of the whole Congress in terms of communication?~
152   4,  0|          Choice: think of the whole Congress in terms of communication.~
153   4,  0|           the question on which the Congress was based. But be careful:~- "
154   4,  0|             The participants in the Congress will be: ~ Young (and not,
155   4,  0|      commitment to following up the Congress.  For the religious institutions:
156   4,  0|        Before, During and After the Congress:~What happens at the Congress,
157   4,  0|       Congress:~What happens at the Congress, that is, during the event
158   4,  0|           to think about before the Congress in terms of communication:
159   4,  0|        about what happens after the Congress: how to guarantee as far
160   4,  0|         Communications Plan for the Congress~We envisaged three levels
161   4,  0|          and society): for example: Congress logo and motto, music -
162   4,  0|             hymn, decoration of the Congress environment (reception,
163   4,  0|             out those attending the Congress (backpack, scarf, stickers,
164   4,  0|          from inside or outside the Congress, through our own or other
165   4,  0| Communications Team planned for the Congress, let’s look at just one
166   4,  0|           in the future of what the Congress is doing: our Internet site.~
167   4,  0|              our Internet site.~The Congress has its own web page: with
168   4,  0|             sectors ~ All about the Congress: information, available
169   4,  0|   information, available before the Congress, on everything which could,
170   4,  0|          get to the location of the Congress).  Participant’s file: all
171   4,  0|             chance to belong to the Congress through a message and to
172   4,  0|             way to take part in the Congress and communicate with religious
173   4,  0|         September to the end of the Congress and from the end of the
174   4,  0|             and from the end of the Congress to 27 November. Here is
175   4,  0|           great increase during the Congress, followed by a gradual reduction
176   4,  0|       reduction from the end of the Congress onward. Such behavior is
177   4,  0|         period after the end of the Congress. The progress of hits lacks
178   4,  0|        period before and during the Congress itself.~The other factors
179   4,  0|          General Secretariat of the Congress. They are full of praise
180   4,  0|     obtained from the events of the Congress; to give depth and continuity
181   4,  0|           spirit, commitment of the Congress and the work already carried
182   4,  0|           have?~The contents of the Congress site will only remain on
183   4,  0|             of the follow-up to the Congress.  Brief information on the
184   4,  0|        already tried out during the Congress).~Public Place for Dialog~
185   4,  0|           for the first because the Congress Secretariat was using the
186   4,  0|          understood that during the Congress, responsibility for the
187   4,  0|            two bodies promoting the Congress, the USG and the UISG.~Thinking
188   4,  0|         site, a few days before the Congress we asked the Presidents
189   4,  0|             for the purposes of the Congress. Both replied on behalf
190   4,  0|    operation experienced during the Congress. Then the UISG would have
191   4,  0|            from the site during the Congress, the possibility of finding
192   4,  0|         Communications Plan for the Congress and, in particular, of Internet;
193   4,  0|          all the information on the Congress.~The speaker was Fr Carlos
194   4,  0|             contribution during the Congress, what it could be in the
195   4,  0|             sections: All about the congress, Participant’s file, Journal,
196   5    |         What did we perceive in the Congress, from the presentations
197   5,  1|            be noted that during the congress the "western" young people
198   5,  1|           person.~New horizons:~The congress of young religious confirms
199   5,  1|            be noted that during the congress the "western" young people
200   5,  1|           person.~New horizons:~The congress of young religious confirms
201   5,  1|          The very experience of the congress has been a value, has had
202   5,  1|      incarnate.~The novelty of this congress is not in its content, but
203   6    |             The first international congress of young men and women religious
204   6    |         spoke at the opening of the congress and with whom there was
205   6    |           and the organisers of the congress.~They let themselves be
206   6,  B|      Community and dialogue. In the congress of the young religious there
207   6,  B|     strongly highlighted during the congress, i.e., the value of experience,
208   7    |   PARTICIPANTS OF THE~INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS~OF YOUNG RELIGIOUS~Greetings
209   7    |            you, participants of the Congress, but particularly to you,
210   7    |             dealt uniquely with the Congress and with its impact upon
211   7    |        enough to participate in the Congress together with you. But all
212   7    |         dynamism and spirit of this Congress. What you have received
213   7    |           and bring to harvest! The Congress will have value only if