In this second part, some extra issues are presented which the Chapter esteemed to be important for a better organization of the Institute, or as a response to situations which emerged from the report of the General and Regional Governments.
Some proposal of organizational nature had already been proposed to the whole Institute together with the Instrumentum Laboris in preparation of the Chapter. Some of them, like the one regarding the term of office of the General and Regional Councils, the restructuring of the Gen1eral Council of Administration, did not receive the approval of the Chapter. But the Chapter has made some decisions, or given some operative directions on others.

1. CANONICAL VISITATION

The present praxis, which reserves the canonical visitation to the Superior General alone, obliges him to remain outside of Rome for prolonged periods of time, with some detriment to the ordinary running of the Institute. Furthermore, the preoccupation regarding these visitations reduces the time that could be used for a serious study of the situation of the Region/Delegation in all its aspects. In view of these considerations, the Chapter decides that the Canonical Visitation may be done by the Vice General Superior. This will change the Constitutions as follows:

121.1 The General Superior or the Vice General Superior, during the six years of their term in office, will make a canonical visitation of all the provinces/delegations. Canonical visitations afford a suitable time for meetings, for reviewing and studying problems, for reflection and renewal. At the end of the visitation, the visiting superior prepares a report to the General Council. Directives are then issued that are binding for the province concerned.
After the approval of the Holy See, the above text will substitute the present no.121.

121.1 The program of the canonical visitation should be drawn up in agreement with the Government of the Province to be visited, and made known to all communities of that Province. Due time should be given also to the encounter with the Council and Offices of the place visited.
This text will substitute the present no. 121.1

121.2 (Is eliminated because its content is inserted in the texts of no. 121.1 and no.117.3 of the General Directory)

As a consequence of the chance no. 117 of the General Directory is re-written as follows:

117.1 Unchanged

117.2 The General Superior governs our Institute by means of spiritual animation, directives and propositions, as well as visits and letters to the whole Institute, to Superiors, and to individual confreres.

117.3 During the sessennium, the General Superior will visit every Region/Delegation so that every confrere may have the possibility of meeting him personally if he so desires.

117.4 Every missionary should have confidence in the General Superior and, according to the tradition of our Institute, inform him from time to time of his situation and activities, and of possible personal problems.

2.CONTINENTAL COUNCILORS

In order to promote, at the continental level, a better coordination of the various sectors of activities, the Chapter deems it opportune to give to the General Councilors the task of looking after the life and activities of a Continent. This experience, already begun in the past sessennium in a small scale, will now be concretized in a more efficient way. This will not affect Councilors' specific role described in no.123 of the Constitutions. The Chapter has therefore established that:

The General Councilors, the Vice General Superior excluded, are entrusted by the General Superior and his Council with following in a closer way a particular Continent. It will be their primary task to promote and organize continental or inter-regional initiatives in the various sectors of the life and missionary activities of that area. This will always be done in accord with the Regional/ Delegate Superiors of the Continent.
The Councilors will normally be free from the responsibility of heading General Offices. The Office of basic formation will always be entrusted to one of the General Councilors.
The Councilors entrusted with one Continent retain their canonical residence at the General House, but they will spend adequate periods of time in the Regions/Delegations of their respective Continent. These periods have to be agreed upon by the General Council and the Superiors of the Regions/Delegations of the Continent.
The Superiors of the Provinces of a given Continent will hold annual meetings to study and promote, at the continental or inter-regional level, initiatives in the various sectors of the their life and missionary activities. These meetings will be presided over by the General Superior.

The implementation of this decision is entrusted to the General Government, which will evaluate its feasibility.

3.REGIONAL CONFERENCES

In order to give time to study and assimilate the Acts of the Chapter before the final preparation of the Regional Conferences, the Chapter decides that these Conferences be held about one year after the end of the Chapter itself.

4. MISSION SECRETARIAT

The decision of the Chapter to free the continental Councilors from heading general offices, has suspended the following numbers of the General Directory related to the Office of Pastoral Activities, of Mission Promotion and of Vocation Promotion: no. 132,4, 132.5; no. 132.6 on Formation and Studies is slightly modified. The duties and tasks in no. 132.7 regarding the Brothers are taken over by the sectors of animation, formation, and pastoral activities, which take care of those needs for all missionaries. If some special emphasis is needed for the Brothers, these same offices will pay close attention to it.
In order to properly follow the various activities of the Institute, and also as a help to the General Council and the Continental Councilors, the Mission Secretariat is established.

The Mission Secretariat helps the General Government in the work of animation of the Institute, and in the general and continental initiatives. It is entrusted to
an équipe of missionaries who depend directly on the General Council.
The Secretariat, in union with the Continental Councilor and as a special help to him, will study, promote and support the initiatives of formation and updating in all the sectors of the Institute: permanent formation, missionary and vocational promotion, pastoral activities, justice and peace, and lay missionaries.
The General Office of Basic Formation is entrusted to a General Councilor, and maintains its own operative autonomy. Nevertheless, for the implementation of its own initiatives, it can ask for the help of the Secretariat.

5. THE GROUP OF THE GENERAL HOUSE

It is made up of a group of missionaries and of several activities, is directly dependent on the General Government, and has no specific juridical form. It comprises the seminaries of Bravetta(Rome, Italy) and Totteridge (London, England), the communities of the General House (Rome) and of the house of Finchley (London, England), and Ivory Coast. The Chapter however did not think that it had sufficient information on these entities and their activities to make a decision on what to do with them, and asks the General Government to continue studying the issue in consultation with the missionaries involved.

6. CENTENARY ANNIVERSARIES

Three jubilarian celebrations call for the attention of our Institute. They take place in three consecutive years. They are an opportunity for us to become better known by a larger circle of friends. We should inform these our friends and benefactors about our activities that promote the Mission. These celebrations are: The Jubilee Year of Redemption (year 2,000), the Centenary of the Foundation of our Institute (2,001), and the beginning of missionary activities of the Institute, with the arrival of the first Consolata missionaries in Kenya (2002).
For the celebrations of the Jubilee Year of Redemption, the Chapter prefers that our Institute participate in the initiatives of the Local Churches.
For the two other celebrations, the Chapter proposes that a committee of representatives from all our continents be set up. This committee should study initiatives for the whole Institute. Each Region/Delegation should set up a similar committee to plan local activities and initiatives. In all the plans to be made, the spiritual, formative and celebrative aspects should be considered, as well sensibilization of people through appropriate means of communication.

7. ONGOINGFORMATION

In the first part of these Acts, the Chapter reiterated several times the urgency for our Institute to enter "into a process of permanent formation". The Chapter is aware that since Vatican II our Institute has done a lot to promote this process of permanent formation. Nevertheless, the changes that have taken place in all areas of life, a certain slacking in our enthusiasm and in our own identity, require a strong impulse for the renewal of us all. This renewal must promote a deepening and an updating of our knowledge, especially concerning truths relative to our vocation, our charism and the spirit of our Institute, and also concerning our pastoral work. Above all, it should insist on the renewal of the individual, keeping in mind the various periods of the life of a missionary: the first years of ministry and missionary work, the middle years of life, the age of maturity, and the cessation of active involvement in ministry.
In a special way, the Chapter proposes that, within each sphere of competence, efforts be made to:
a) Continue the initiatives of permanent formation that have proven effective in the past. Intensify these initiatives for missionaries that have between 20 and 30 years of Profession, and for the young, after the first five years of priesthood or of religious Profession;
b) For each activity of permanent formation, keep in mind not only the academic aspect, but also a need of conscientization concerning situations and problems of the modern world, the new trends of thought, the various religious forms, and the theology of mission;
c) Accompany the individual in a special way, in order to help him study his own choice of life and its requirements, all in harmony with our charism and spirit;
d) Make special efforts to create in the communities an atmosphere that favors prayer, reflection, listening, and personal commitment.

The Chapter reminds all missionaries that they have the duty to make at least three prolonged periods of permanent formation in their life. Each missionary should select these from among those proposed by the General Government. The Superiors should favor and facilitate the fulfillment of this obligation.

7. BASIC FORMATION

Ratio Formationis
Within the next three years, the Ratio Formationis should be reviewed, keeping in mind the decisions of the Chapter, especially those that relate to the mission Ad Gentes. This review should consider the present social, cultural and ecclesial situations. To reach this goal, the Office of Formation and Studies should set up an ad hoc commission with representatives from all stages of formation. It seems opportune that this study should begin at the continental level. Also:
-There should be more continuity in the formative iter; all its stages should be considered; particular attention to be given to inculturation.
-The propaedeutic year should be established wherever it does not exist, and its purpose and content clearly defined.
-The pastoral stage should be better spelled out, with more specific details.
-The praxis of requesting all theological students to acquire a degree equivalent to a master's in theology should be upheld wherever this can be done.

Formators

The preparation of formators should be given high priority. The practice started during the past sessennium to let them follow some specialized course should be continued. Since the philosophy stage of formation has such a special relevance, the General Government should get more involved in the choice and preparation of its formators.

8. NOVITIATE

The Chapter did not consider expanding the novitiate to two years. Nevertheless, it recommends that the stages before and after the novitiate be properly cared for, and that the formators pay special attention to them.
Before the novitiate, the human, Christian and vocational dimensions of formation should be properly cared for. The time for Postulancy should be expanded and better directed to the novitiate. A good rapport should be established between novice masters and other formators.
After the novitiate, the formator of the newly professed members should be free from other duties, so that he can fulfill his indispensable role of guiding, teaching and witnessing to the religious consecration and to Mission. He should make sure that the professed members do not consider the period of novitiate like a parenthesis in their life, but a path to be followed up and perfected afterwards.

10. FORMATION OF THE BROTHERS

The small number of candidates to the Brotherhood has not always allowed them to have a meaningful formative community. The variety of specializations that they pursue makes it even more difficult to establish a regular formative community. Nevertheless, in the last few years, our Institute has tried hard to provide a better professional preparation for them; this is attested to by the good number of graduates from universities or from other professional schools. It has also expanded considerably the spectrum of specializations within the numbers of our Brothers.
The Chapter wants to establish some criteria for the formative iter of our Brothers. These criteria are to be followed, adapting them to the various situations. These criteria change in part the system followed up to now:
1. The propaedeutic year should be spent together by all the candidates to missionary life in our Institute. All should have the same objectives and programs.
2. During the period preceding the novitiate, the brother should get a basic diploma in a specific professional field, obtained after a period of study of approximately three years. This time of formative iter is to be spent with the students of philosophy.
3. After the novitiate, and up to the perpetual profession normally, the brothers should receive an adequate formation in religious sciences. If the number allows it, a special community for them should be established.
4. After Perpetual Profession, the brother should be assigned to some missionary work, or to a further specialization in his specific field, if this meets the needs of the Institute.

11. DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONNEL

The Chapter is aware of the complexity, difficulty and variety of situations that deal with personnel. And so it does not feel capable of making final and precise decisions regarding the distribution of personnel. Nevertheless, it offers the following guidelines to the General Government, which are orientative and are meant to help it in assigning personnel:
1. Every Region/Delegation should become aware that it is almost impossible for the General Government to assign personnel on a "give-and-take" basis, as far as number and quality of the missionaries.
2. The General Government should assign available personnel according to the following priorities:
- to the new openings ad gentes planned by the Chapter;
- to basic formation;
- to Mission and vocation promotion
- to help members specialize according to the needs of the above sectors.
3. The Regional Governments, in agreement with the General Government, should pay special attention to assigning young missionaries to places and communities that will support them as they begin their direct missionary experience. To this purpose it recommends that:
- before appointing a young missionary to some demanding work, the Council should evaluate his capability of assuming that responsibility, in order to avoid dispersion of energy. It should also avoid assigning these young missionaries to materialistic or bureaucratic forms of work. It should further do all it can so that they do not loose their priestly and missionary identity.
- young missionaries should normally be assigned to communities that receive them well, accompany them and help them in their work and their journey of spiritual growth along the lines of all our characteristic ways of being.
- young missionaries should be offered opportunities to get together, so that they can consult one another as they try to insert themselves in the new activities. This will help them prepare an appropriate plan of ongoing formation. All these efforts, though, should not remove them for participating in the more general initiatives of the Region.

12. MISSION AND VOCATION ANIMATION

Confronted with the need to clarify the rapport between mission and vocation promotion and the other activities of our Institute, the Chapter reaffirms that they are an integral part of our Ad Gentes (cf. Const. 17). The Chapter has chosen them as priorities within the "qualified services" to our Institute and the Church. The Chapter wishes to further state that:

In Africa: much attention is paid to the growth of vocation promotion, while mission animation of the Churches is almost non-existent. The Chapter wishes that mission animation be re-started. One or two full-time missionaries are to be assigned to it. The Chapter hopes that this will be a common effort by all the Regions of the Continent.
Let these animators be properly prepared with pertinent courses that will help them to deepen the nature of mission promotion in Africa, plan the strategies to adopt, and use proper coordination among all the Regions. Other missionaries should be later on assigned to this task, so as to establish regional teams of promoters. They must have special moments of formation, time for reviews and planning should periodically be organized.

In Latin America: efforts should be made to appoint missionaries to the work of mission promotion, even if other activities have to be abandoned.

In Europe and North America: the Chapter believes that the Regions of Europe and North America should continue to practice mission and vocation promotion as their first ministry. The Chapter also recognizes that the other Continents have the same needs relative to doing mission promotion. It is aware of the scarcity of personnel in our Institute, and asks them to re-elaborate their projects of mission and vocation promotion according to these exigencies. Keeping in mind the qualifications of the personnel working in this sector, they should give priority to areas of action such as the promotion of theological reflection, the mass media, animation of youth, cooperation and solidarity.

13. MEDICAL INSURANCE

The Chapter has considered the variety of situations regarding medical services in the various Provinces. In some countries the state provides them in a satisfactory way, in others the Institute ought to subscribe to very expensive medical insurance. In others there exists a minimum of normal services, while recovery and operation expenses are very costly. All in all it does not seem convenient at the moment to insure all the missionaries in order to obtain medical assistance. For emergency situations, when it is necessary, the Regions can depend on the medical services offered in Italy, or, especially for Africa, the services offered in the hospitals that are under our responsibility. Each Province should consider whether it is convenient to participate in initiatives taken by other groups, especially those promoted by religious or diocesan institutions.
In particular the Chapter:
- asks each community to specify with accuracy the amount of expenses for medical cures, so that the Institute may have a comprehensive picture of the total cost and evaluate better whether it is opportune to join specific forms of medical insurance. On these grounds,
after the first three years, our Institute could conduct an appropriate study.
- establishes that the present "Solidarity Fund" become truly a fund, and that all the money that is not used for special medical interventions, be set aside, so that in the future it will provide for the expenses of the Regions, especially in Africa, that are deprived of any medical insurance.