EUROPE/POLAND - National Meeting for diocesan directors of the PMS and mission delegates of various religious communities on the theme “Let us carry on the work of serving the Church ”, inspired by the Encyclical Fidei donum

Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - From 16 to 18 September in Niepokalanów, Poland, some 120 diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland, their collaborators and mission delegates of various religious communities will gather for a National Meeting, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland Mgr . Jan Piotrowski told Fides. The theme of the meeting is inspired by the Fidei donum Encyclical, on the 50th anniversary of its publication: "Let us carry on the work of serving the Church".
Among those present for the meeting Bishop Wiktor Skworc, president of the Polish Bishops' Missions Commission and Bishop Pawel Stobrawa, a member of the Commission. Fr Jaroslaw Rózanski OMI, will speak on the subject of "Cooperation among local Churches. Echoes of the Fidei donum Congress in Sacrofano". Another talk will focus on the Pope's Message for World Mission Sunday this year. This will be followed by a report on the work of Polish sisters engaged in missionary activity. The programme includes discussion in groups.
The participants will be presented with material for mission animation to be used during the missionary month of October to encourage missionary cooperation. Particular attention is given to increasing mission awareness among children, in families, in schools and in parishes because the Polish Bishops have declared 2008 a Jubilee Year to celebrate 150 years of Holy Childhood activity in Poland. The theme proposed for this Jubilee is: "From the Baltic to the Mountain Tops we are missionaries for Jesus". (RG) (Agenzia Fides 15/9/2007; righe 21, parole 261)