{"id":2336,"date":"2016-10-09T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2016-10-09T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T04:46:36","slug":"msc-provincial-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/msc-provincial-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC Provincial Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I RETURNED to Greythorn at the conclusion of a very successful Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Chapter in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Significant policies on our expansion in Vietnam; our Heart Spirituality; working on the &#8216;margins&#8217;; ministry to remote communities of Aborigines and, of course, Retirement and Aged Care.<\/p>\n<p>I missed a stronger statement on working regionally and the mission to China. However, we have a relatively weak central government being a Federation of Provinces and it\u2019s difficult to garner regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding China, we are just maintaining Japan and, in both cases of Japan and China, we have too few students willing or able to learn the language. Perhaps, I thought, this is best left to the Jesuits.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, I intervened in favour of our academic ministry but it did not receive much support.<\/p>\n<p>I was more successful when I made a lengthy intervention about retirement and aged care. Overall, it was a blessed and inspiring time for the Congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of our professed and ordained members from Vietnam was an uplifting experience. I had already met them in Vietnam and, again, in the Philippines, where they do their novitiate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I RETURNED to Greythorn at the conclusion of a very successful Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Chapter in Sydney. Significant policies on our expansion in Vietnam; our Heart Spirituality; working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}