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The 2004 Rule of Life
Do not say, “I am young.
Jeremiah 1:7
You will go to everyone to whom I send you
And thou shalt say all that I shall command thee
It was in 2003 that, Archbishop of Perugia Giuseppe Chiaretti, established a new commission to revise the Statute. On December 24, 2004, the work of revision-although amid many difficulties that also caused the separation of an area-came to its end with the official approval of the new text.
Here is the pdf file of the Rule of Life approved by Monsignor Chiaretti:
This is the audio of the speech he delivered to the assembled community at the general convention in Montesilvano the following January, as he handed over the new bylaws: