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Rome, Sunday, January 16, 2011

Dear Missionaries Consolata:

we express our gratitude, we have come from three different continents, thanks to many years through you, the Lord has called us.

After these days we lived together discovered we have many things in common: a strong sense of belonging to the family Consolata, the awareness of sharing the charism of Blessed Allamano, and also, ways of training and missionary commitments in our communities.

has arisen in us a strong desire to live as a family of Lay Missionaries of the Consolata within the large family Consolata with the Missionaries.

The first goal we propose is the structuring of international coordination and communication tool and fellowship within the next three years.

To achieve this goal we considered necessary preliminary steps:

For the African continent, the construction of regional coordinators and likewise a Continental Organization, for American, Continental Coordinating build, for Europe to strengthen coordination among all communities.

express our desire to welcome into our family lay expressions of Asia and other regions that are not present.

Our eyes and our hearts are open to new international realities of lay missionaries Consolata. Henceforth be the responsibility of each and every one take care of this reality.

express our hope that this is the first of many meetings. As well as participating with a delegation representing the three continents in the next chapters of 2011 and so share the wealth of those days.

We hope that the accompanying the LMC made by missionaries to continue in the framework of each reality.

Finally we thank the two Directorates-General for the support given to this international meeting, enabling live and feel intensely the charism and spirituality especially in Castelnuovo and Turin.

We parted fraternally in the Lord, praying to Our Lady Consolata you to attend and accompany them on the task ahead.

Lay Missionaries of the Consolata representing the countries of Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Portugal, Spain and Italy, participants in the 1st International Meeting of LMC ; Turin-Rome in January 2011