Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan “You are a disciple and a missionary. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela celebrate Mission Sunday on 21 October. In a report to Fides National PMS Director Fr. José Rafael Romero Linares, said various initiatives of mission animation have been held since the beginning of the month of October in dioceses, parishes, schools and will continue until the end of November with Meetings for diocesan mission delegates and animators of Youth Mission and Missionary Adolescence and Missionary Childhood.
October began with a special Mass on October 1 presided by Fr José Romero. On Sunday 7 October Mass was followed by a meeting of parish mission groups. Tuesday 9 October there was a meeting for the clergy in Caracas to plan animation of the 3rd National Mission Congress and the next day there was a meeting of the clergy and the laity of the Archdiocese of Coro for mission animation in October. Saturday 20 there will be a Mission Sunday prayer vigil animated by Capuchin Tertiary Sisters. Sunday 21 the main Mass of Mission Sunday will be celebrated in Caracas Cathedral. Sunday 28 there will be a Youth Mission March organised by the priests and lay people of Consolata. Besides these national level events, every diocese has organised numerous mission animation activities.
The Pontifical Mission Societies Venezuela are promoting and preparing the 3rd National Mission Congress to be held in Caracas 9 to 13 April 2008, on the theme "Venezuela, the time has come to be a missionary disciple" with the subtitle "Disciples and Missionaries in Venezuela and in the world today". This 3rd Mission Congress comes 10 years after the first "it would seem convenient to make a new convocation to serve as impulse to mission beyond our frontiers". The Plenary Council of Venezuela is committed to renewing mission awareness at all levels of the Church in Venezuela. In fact the 5th resolution of Aparecida was to "put the Church in a state of Mission" convoking a Great Continental Mission. The National Congress will aim to promote among the faithful a desire to be disciples and missionaries for mission ad gentes. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 17/10/2007; righe 28, parole 387)
