Br. Pere Ferré appointed director of the Brothers Today Secretariat
The General Council has appointed Brother Pere Ferré, from the Hermitage Province, as director of the Brothers Today Secretariat in Rome for a period of three years, starting in January 2025.
The Brothers Today Secretariat was created in 2009 in response to the XXI General Chapter’s call to “live a new consecrated life which promotes a new way of being brother.” Today, the Secretariat animates the area of Marist life, alongside the Secretariat of Laity. Its activities revolve around the three aspects of Marist life: formation, animation of community life and communion between brothers and laypeople. Brother Pere will take over from Brother Ángel Medina, Assistant Director in 2018 and 2019 and Director of the Secretariat since January 2020. He will work alongside Br. Lindley Sionosa, assistant director, in harmony with the International Commission of Brothers Today, which is made up of brothers representing the 6 regions of the Institute.
Br. Pere Ferré
Br. Pere was born in Barcelona in 1967, the second of three sons of Josep Maria and Carmen. He studied in two Marist schools, in Badalona and Barcelona. After some years as an animator of pastoral groups, he entered the novitiate in Les Avellanes (Lleida) where he made his first profession in 1988. He made his post novitiate in Alcalá de Henares and Barcelona. He started an insertion community in Santa Coloma de Gramenet with two other brothers, where he combined social and parish work with that of the Marist College of Badalona. He studied pharmacy, religious sciences and psychology.
After his perpetual profession in 1994, he followed the formation course for formators from 1996 to 1998 in Valpré (France), before dedicating himself to vocation ministry and the formation of postulants. From 2001 to 2009 he was novice master at the interprovincial novitiate in Seville and later spent a year in the community and college of Lleida.
He served in various capacities in the animation of the Province of L’Hermitage: Vicar Provincial (2010-2016) and Provincial (2016-2022). Since 2022, he has been Assistant Secretary General of the Conference of Religious of France (CORREF) and is a member of the Marist community of Paris.