AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presentation of CAM 3Working Paper: “ May the Third American Mission Congress encourage a process of reflection and missionary analysis all over the continent as a response to this epoch of change”

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Quito (Agenzia Fides) - During the 2nd International Missiology Symposuim held in August in Quito, the working paper for CAM 3 was presented to delegations of 17 American countries taking part in the symposium. The working paper, the fruit of three years of activity by the Cam 3 Theological Commission, was presented by the Commission's president, Mgr. Julio Terán Dutari, and Fr. Santiago Ramírez, a member of the commission. Copies of the working paper have been sent to the bishop presidents of every Bishops' Conference in America with an invitation to organise study and reflection among the respective Conferences and to encourage the local Churches to take part in the process. The paper was also sent to every bishop in Ecuador with the same finalities.
For their part the respective national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the continent have started diffusion, study and reflection on the Working Paper in coordination with the Bishops' Conferences, so as to reach all pastoral workers, ecclesial movements and other realities involved in the life of the Church in every country.
In his presentation of the Working Paper Cardinal Antonio González Zumárraga, emeritus Archbishop of Quito and president of CAM 3 Central Commission, says "the progress made by Mission Congresses, first for Latin America and then for all America, has been decisive for missionary animation, awareness and formation on our continent". The Cardinal says he hopes the Working Paper will "encourage a process of missionary reflection and missionary analysis all over the continent able to respond to this epoch of change of paradigm in which mission ad gentes is ‘mission for humanity”.
The Working Paper has five chapters: "The Church and missionary discipleship", “Our missionary life in America and CAM-COMLA", "Discipleship: the community, a disciple of Jesus ", "Pentecost: community borne by the Spirit", "Evangelisation: missionary community for humanity ". (RG) (Agenzia Fides 19/9/2007; righe 26, parole 343)


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