Short Summary of September 17th

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WEDNESDAY
Isaia Kishi (Japan) led morning prayer at the beginning of the last day of the General Synod.
The Secretary General, Ramiro Ruiz, and the Procurator General, Floriano De Fabiis, addressed the Synod relating to matters concerning their responsibilities and work.
Nicholas Postlethwaite (England), spokesperson for new Restructuring Coordinators Group, then gave a report on behalf of the new Restructuring Coordinators.
Denis Travers (Curia) invited Paul Matsumoto (Japan), Marco Pasquali (Italy), and Ramiro Ruiz (Colombia) - three Passionists who attended the Young Passionist Religious Gathering in Melbourne, Australia - to address the Synod on their experience of the meeting in Australia.
The General Synod, after a period of discussion and clarification, gave approval in principle to a number of decisions to take forward the process of Restructuring of the Congregation.
In the afternoon the assembly gathered in table groups to make suggestions for place of the next General Synod.
The General Synod members then engaged in a process of evaluation of the Cuernavaca meeting.
Finally, Father General Ottaviano D’Egidio made some final remarks and words of thanks and then closed the 13th General Synod of the Congregation.
The Closing Mass of the 2008 General Synod was celebrated by Father General Ottaviano D’Egidio in Italian.