The Brisbane Oratory in Formation has passed the necessary three years as an Oratory “in formation”, and at the present time we are in the phase when we can petition the Holy See for establishment as a Congregation of the Oratory. According to the norms which outline this process, the Procurator General of the Confederation of the Oratory indicates to a community-in-formation when he judges it ready to petition the Holy See. A new Procurator General for the Confederation was elected last year, and we have been in contact with him since his election. He has visited the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome, and discussed there the situation of all the Oratories-in-formation. At present we are furnishing the Procurator General with further information about our own case.
Some of the things that an Oratory-in-formation needs to demonstrate, in order to be established, are sufficient members; financial independence; stability in