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Renewal, Fidelity, and Community: The Society of Mary General Chapter of 1981

This video features interviews with some of the brothers and priests from the United States who attended the 1981 General Chapter, as well as photographs and documents from the time during and before the chapter, to tell the story of how the new SM Rule of Life was made.

About This Video

In 1981, brothers and priests of the Society of Mary (Marianists) gathered from around the world in Linz, Austria with an enormous task at hand: finalizing their new Rule of Life. This video, produced by the North American Center for Marianist Studies, features interviews with some of the brothers and priests from the United States who attended this chapter, as well as photographs and documents from the time during and before the chapter, to tell the story of how the new Rule was made. This video project came about through an invitation from Father Oscar Vasquez, Provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, asking NACMS to produce something that would record the living memory of the General Chapter of 1981, which wrote the revision of the Constitutions – The Rule of Life. This video includes the thinking behind the need to revise the Constitution, recollections by Marianists who were at that General Chapter, and reveals the legacy of this Rule of Life that was written 40 years ago.

Credits

Produced and Directed by Gabrielle Bibeau, FMI; Patti Gehred; George J. Lisjak; Thomas Redmond, SM

Written by George J. Lisjak and Thomas Redmond, SM

Research by Gabrielle Bibeau, FMI and Thomas Redmond, SM

Production Design and Editing by Gabrielle Bibeau, FMI

Narrated by Gabrielle Bibeau, FMI

Music by Podington Bear/Chad Crouch (soundofpicture.com) (All rights reserved)

Salve Regina Sung by Members of the SM Novitiate Community (Dayton)

Special Thanks To

Bertrand Buby, SM; Raymond Fitz, SM; David Fleming, SM; Quentin Hakenewerth, SM; James Heft, SM; Patrick Tonry, SM; Stephen Tutas, SM

The National Archives of the Society of Mary, Province of the United States

Christopher Wittmann, SM

Lawrence Cada, SM

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