Conference of Superiors of the African Continent (CSAC)
CSAC had its first meeting of the year 2020, from 20th – 24th January at the Provincial house of Nigeria: Iva- Valley, Enugu. Brothers from the Provincial house welcomed us with an open heart and Marist spirit, in such a way that we all felt at home.
This was also felt as we visited different communities in the Province. Through this means, we want to thank Br Vincent Abadom and all the Brothers from the Province of Nigeria for the attentions given to us.
The purpose of having a meeting outside the regular venue, MIC-Nairobi, was to come to know the reality of other Administrative Units, in such a way that we can strengthen our working together as an African Region. In a concrete way, and beyond our common formation house of MIC, we want to continue the road of extending our collaboration at the Regional level, in four areas that we give priority:
– FORMATION: a regional commission set up to see to the formation needs of the region presented proposals including preparation courses for our Brothers for final vows.
In addition, they are preparing an encounter or colloquium that will gather all Brothers working in Vocation Ministry and Formation houses in the month of October, 2020.
Brothers participants in CSAC meeting at Enugu: Michel Mami, Ken McDonald G.C., Luis Carlos GutiĂ©rrez V.G., Cyprian Gandeebo, Vincent Abadom, Ă“scar MartĂn G.C., Albert Nzabonaliba, Teo Grageda, Mark Anokwuru and Norbert Mwila.
– MISSION: This is a regional commission, working with the Secretariat of Education and Evangelization. This commission has created a network for our schools and invite us to give an impulse in Youth Ministry through the MYM within our Administrative Units.
– SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCES: This commission is made up of bursars from all the five African AU’s. They too gathered in Enugu at the same time that CSAC was meeting. The interactions with them, after their meeting, helped to see projects that could guide us towards a good development as a Region.
During the meeting, CSAC appointed Brothers Innocent Iloabueke and Pascal Funsa to visit and to take closer look at the accounts of MIC/MIUC.
– COMMUNITY LIFE: CSAC, in collaboration with the Secretariat of Brothers Today, organized a three-week course for community leaders in Rwanda, where 26 Brothers from the five Administrative Units participated.
A call to work in collaboration with the General Administration was received and left to the leaders to appoint the appropriate personnel in the specific areas.
In this way, we continue knitting the network of our Marist Institute, following the call of the General Chapter to be a Global Family.
Canonical visitation from the General Council to the African AU’s
The Link General Councilors for Africa, Ă“scar MartĂn and Ken McDonald, will visit our regional Scholasticate in Nairobi (MIC), in the months of March-April 2020. The two Brothers from the General Council will visit all our Administrative Units (in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023).
This year, 2020, there will be an Assembly of Provincials/District Superior and their council members:
This assembly will take place at Roussel house in Nairobi, from 6th – 9th May. It will be followed by the CSAC meeting that will take place at MIC from 11th – 16th May, 2020.
CSAC Chairman
Br Michel Mami, Provincial from Madgascar, completed his two-year term as a chairman of CSAC. We thanked him for the work done, and we welcomed Br Cyprian Gandeebo, District Superior of the Marist District of West Africa, as the new chairman of CSAC (2020-2022). We put in God’s hands all what he has to accomplish during his term of office.
Br Cyprian Gandeebo, FMS CSAC Chairman