THE 5TH ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE ITAKA-ESCOLAPIOS NETWORK CONTINUES IN ROME, AT THE GENERAL HOUSE OF SAN PANTALEO.

After a prayer prepared by the General Council of the Fraternity, the Advisory Council of the Itaka-Escolapios Network held its second day of meetings. In the first session, the coordinators of the general teams of the Network took part to take stock of the three years of work in their respective areas: Ander Mijangos, responsible for resource management; Constanza de las Marinas, for awareness-raising; Mayte Ramírez, for volunteering; Joseba Alzola, for communication; and Alberto Cantero, for training.

In their assessment of the work carried out over the last three years and the current situation, they highlighted elements such as an increasingly networked economic operation, the development of the Educa platform, the international meetings of Itaka-Escolapios volunteers, the need to communicate the work carried out by Itaka-Escolapios to society and the resources available to work on training.

With the presentations of the general teams, the plenary session ended. The second and third sessions of the day were developed through work in groups to discuss and debate everything that had been heard so far. The first time in groups was organised by heterogeneous groups and the second according to the role of each participant: General Congregation and Superiors of the districts, General Council of the Fraternity and representatives of the fraternities; and those responsible for Itaka-Escolapios in the Network and in the districts.

In the fourth and last session of the day, Carolina Paredes, representative in the presidency of the General Congregation of the Fraternity, led the sharing of the work done in the groups. The groups highlighted the main strengths they identify in Itaka-Escolapios and raised their concerns about the task they have to carry out, especially in the internationalisation of the network, in the promotion of Itaka-Escolapios in each demarcation and about the role played by the Order and the Fraternity in Itaka-Escolapios.

In this way, all the participants in the Advisory Council were able to comment and share the echoes suggested to them by the presentations heard so far, which had as a fundamental theme the role of Itaka-Escolapios as a place of participation and mission in the Pious Schools.

The day ended with the Eucharist presided by Fr. Pedro Aguado.