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1. Reminders.
a) Participation in the General Chapter. According to what is prescribed at No. 130 of the Constitutions and the General Regulations (GR) that determine the number of delegates to the General Chapter. What is prescribed by the G.R. at No. 77 was modified and approved at the General Synod of 2004 and confirmed at the last General Chapter of 2006.
b) Participation at a General Synod. According to No.147 of the Constitutions, the members of the Synod are those who participate at the General Chapter “ex officio”.
c) Modifications to the Constitutions. According to what is prescribed by No. 114 for the modification of any point of the Constitutions a two thirds majority of votes in favor of the change, and in order for it to become part of the text of the Constitutions, it needs to be approved a second time at the successive General Chapter.
2. The Laity.
The Lay Passionist movements, with various titles throughout the world, are becoming more and more aware of their being called to our charism and to our mission. They exist, they are involved in formation and are collaborating among themselves and the number of those who are consecrated to the Passion as laity is increasing. We know that St. Paul of the Cross wrote numerous letters to lay men and women, trusting in their capacity to live the spirituality of the Passion.
However, neither in our Constitutions nor in our General Regulations is there is any reference to the laity being called to our charism. I believe that the time has arrived for their inclusion in the Constitutions and in the General Regulations as individuals who are associated with the Congregation. A small commission has proposed inserting into the Constitutions the following provisional text that is intended for study and therefore can be modified: “There are persons who feel an attraction (calling) to the charism of the Passion and who wish to live it in communion with the Passionist Congregation. When they are formally associated with the Congregation, according to the norms established in the General Regulations, they will form an integral part of the Congregation as the Passionist Family.”
It is suggested that we place this text or something similar, at the end of Chapter II of the Constitutions, the chapter on Community Life, following No. 38. In fact, in that chapter, in addition to the elements of community life, it speaks about the relationship with those outside the community and hospitality. The General Regulations should contain one or two points that define the forms of association and the specific relationships between the laity of the Passionist Family and the Congregation [...]
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