General Chapter OCSO (6 – 18 February, 2022)

GENERAL CHAPTER OCSO – 2022 (part 1)
Domus Pacis, Assisi

7 – 17 February, 2022
Arrival : 6 February, 2022
Departure : 18 February, 2022

OCSO – CONSTITUTIONS

C. 77       The General Chapter

1 At fixed times all the abbots and abbesses come together. They discuss there the salvation of their own souls and of those committed to them. They take measures regarding the observance of the Holy Rule and of the Order where there is something that needs to be corrected or added. They foster anew among themselves the benefit of peace and charity. They devote themselves to maintaining the patrimony of the Order and safeguarding and increasing its unity.

2 The supreme authority of the Order is exercised by all the superiors meeting as a General Chapter. The General Chapter is competent to legislate for the monks and nuns and to be responsible for the application of these laws. The ecclesiastical power of governance for the whole Order resides in the General Chapter in accordance with canon 596 §2 of the Code of Canon Law. It is exercised by the abbots with the cooperation of the abbesses in accordance with canon 129 §1 and 2.

C. 78       Those Taking Part in the General Chapter

The Abbot General, the superiors of autonomous monasteries and the councillors of the Abbot General have the obligation of participating in the General Chapter with the right to vote. The Chapter can invite other members of the Order and even give them voting rights.

C. 79      The Competence of the General Chapter

It is for the General Chapter to approve new foundations or their closing, to incorporate or suppress monasteries of monks, to incorporate monasteries of nuns, to petition the Holy See for their suppression, to elect the Abbot General and to accept his resignation. It is also for the General Chapter, to elect officials of the Order determined by law, to watch over the manner in which they exercise their office, to accept their resignations and if necessary to depose them, and to accept the resignations of abbots and abbesses or to depose the abbots.

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