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1. The Church in Amazonia wants to make of the laity privileged actors.
2. In the absence of ordained minister entrust the exercise of the pastoral care of the same to a person not invested with the priestly character, who is a member of the community.
3. We request a revision of the MotuProprio of Saint Paul VI, Ministeria Quedam, so that women who are adequately formed and prepared can receive the ministries of Readers and Acolytes. We ask that the instituted ministry be created of “the woman directress of the community”
4. Urgent, for the Amazonian Church is the promotion, formation, and support of the Permanent Deacons, given the importance of this ministry in the community.
5. We propose that an Amazonian Catholic University be established based on inter-disciplinary research in inculturation and in the inter-cultural dialogue.
6. The elaboration of an Amazonian rite, which expresses the Amazonian liturgical, theological, disciplinary and spiritual patrimony, with special reference to what Lumen Gentium affirms for the Oriental Churches (cf. LG 23). This would be added to the rites already present in the Church.
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