29th Day: XXII General Chapter_Keep up the Christian tolerance.

The day started with the celebration of the Holy Mass presided over by Fr. Alexander Mariadass, Ph.D.  a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He recommended the sisters to keep on to the Christian values especially the Christian tolerance and to keep away from scandalous life examples. The liturgy was prepared and organized by Italy Province with a touch of interculturality, explicitly expressed through the different national costumes of the sisters from five different countries who belong to the Italian Province.

The capitulars were given a recapitulation of the process that they underwent. Now that the general chapter is getting to its close, the decisions, ordinances, and resolutions were reviewed and further finalized. This was done in the morning.

Another important responsibility of the chapter is to re-enact or revise ordinances established by the previous general chapter and to issue new ordinances and to modify, when necessary, in conformity with the constitutions, by a two-thirds majority vote and to interpret the general statutes authentically and to decide by two-thirds majority vote any necessary modifications in the constitutions and submit them for the approval of the Holy See, which alone can interpret the constitutions authentically. In the afternoon, the formal voting over the decisions, resolutions and ordinances was done. The voting body or the capitulars were able to work in an atmosphere were there is an open exchange of ideas whenever clarifications over items to be voted were raised.