Presentation
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: First organisation of formation, 1849-1870
I. STUDENTS IN THE CONGREGATION (1858)
II. ACCEPTANCE OF STUDENTS IN THE CONSTITUTIONS (1862)
III. VOCATIONAL AND FORMATIVE DOCUMENTS
IV. GENERAL CHAPTERS
Chapter 2: Period between the years 1871-1899
I. FR. JOSEPH XIFRÉ (1858-1899)
II. VOCATIONAL AND FORMATIVE DOCUMENTS
III. GENERAL CHAPTERS
IV. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
Chapter 3: Period between the years 1899-1922
I. FR. CLEMENT SERRAT (1899-1906)
II. FR. MARTIN ALSINA (1906-1922)
III. VOCATIONAL AND FORMATIVE DOCUMENTS
IV. GENERAL CHAPTERS
V. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
Chapter 4: Period between the years 1922-1966 (1st Part)
I. FR. NICHOLAS GARCIA
II. FR. PHILIP MAROTO (1934-1937)
III. FR. PETER SCHWEIGER (1949-1967)
Chapter 5: Period between the years 1922-1966 (2nd Part)
IV. VOCATIONAL AND FORMATIVE DOCUMENTS
V. GENERAL CHAPTERS
VI. CODEX IURIS ADDITICHO (C.I.A.)
Chapter 6: Formation in the Post-Conciliar Renewal, 1967-1997
I. PERIOD OF 1967-1971
II. PERIOD OF 1973-1979
III. PERIOD OF 1979-1985
IV. PERIOD OF 1985-1991
V. PERIOD OF 1991-1997
Chapter 7: The General Plan of Formation, 1994
I. BACKGROUND
II. XXI GENERAL CHAPTER
III. DRAFTING OF THE GPF
IV. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GPF PROJECT
V. MEANING OF THE GPF FOR THE CONGREGATION
VI. CONCLUSION
V. General Dispositions
In 1900 the first General Dispositions368 are published. They are so called because they are addressed to the entire Congregation. It is an organic and systematic compilation of the general guidelines of the Congregation.
In the drafting, the following points have been taken into consideration: On one hand, the prevailing dispositions –previously published in alphabetical order- after removing all that was circumstantial, exhortative or motivational. On the other hand, those dispositions that are explicitly included in the Constitutions have been omitted here. As a norm, the dispositions of the General Chapters and others derived from the Constitutions are taken up here. The vocational and formative aspect is found in chapters XVIII-XXVI and XXX of Part One.
The dispositions are typically Claretian. As Fr. Serrat says in the Prologue, both the Constitutions and the General Dispositions not only ensure observance; they also “give our Institute its own face and character. They are as it were the seal that distinguishes it from the other institutes, in its being as well as in its inner life and its external manifestations.”369
They were updated and partially modified after the General Chapters held in 1905,370 1906371 and 1912.372