From 15 to 19 May, the meeting of the lay friars of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean took place. It was attended by 57 friars from the 5 Provinces, to take up as lay brothers the sense of the "spirituality of the Incarnation", which springs from the experience of St Francis in the Christmas of Greccio, from minority and from the commitment which inspires the Rule of St Francis, to update the sense and the evangelising commitment with the poor in the present moment.
The lay brothers looked at the historical memory of their own journey, shared and presented the life and mission of the brothers today in their different presences and the challenges that the current reality presents in this region of the world.
Some of the themes they shared:
- Analysis of the situation in the Mexico-Central America region.
- The challenges of our being lesser brothers.
- The challenges of Pope Francis' initiative: a poor, outgoing and synodal Church. An evangelising look from Latin America.
- Francis of Assisi, the proposal of minority in a feudal, pyramidal and warlike society and church.
Br Byron Chamann
