The team met in Rome (general house of brothers and sisters) February 27 through 28, 2018. This team is: Miss Teresa Borrelli (Italian lawyer) specialist in the development of causes) is working on the dossiers (canonical term is positio) for both causes, Sr. Jeanne Cadiou sscc, Mr Joachim Bouflet (French historian and writer for the cause of the Good Mother), Bernard Couronne sscc and Alberto Toutin sscc (for the Good Father’s). David Reid sscc - Postulator General - chaired the team's sessions.
During these two days we shared the progress of the works on the 1) testimonies, 2) the more relevant documents to trace the itinerary of our founders and 3) the features of their spirituality. All these elements will make up the dossiers on the Good Mother and the Good Father respectively. This is the document that must be submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, (DSC) to attest to the relevance of the founders as figures of holiness for their time and for today. The development of this document requires an in-depth study of their lives and of the witness that their lives were lived according to the Gospel. The documentary sources (official, writings of the founders, studies etc.) support the testimony. On February 28, the cause team met with the General Government of the Sisters (Via Aurelia) to share with them the work done these days and the next steps to come.
The team has scheduled its next meeting Rome June 18-19, 2018. Our plan is to present the two dossiers to DSC by the time of the General Chapters. The Vatican congregation will study them minutely and prayerfully. If all is well, in about two years, a recommendation will be paid to the Pope to issue a decree of Venerability.
You are now asked to entrust this work to the intercession of the Good Mother and the Good Father.
02/28/2018