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Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The “Missionary Workshops” promoted by the Archdiocese of Czestochowa are aimed at the education of young students in the ad gentes mission and the preparation of animators and volunteer missionaries for missionary work with the youth and in parishes. This year, the reflection will be focused on the sanctity of human life and the dignity of the human person.
The workshops will be organized each month (the third Saturday of the month) by the Diocesan Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Archdiocese, Fr. Jacek Gancarek, who began the initiative in 2000, upon the request of Czestochowa's Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak. The workshops are often attended by priests, religious, catechists, missionary animators, and all those responsible for the Pontifical Mission Societies in the parishes of the Archdiocese. During the workshops, the missionaries present their work, the missionary needs, the challenges for the Church in evangelization, and related themes on the missions.
“The Missionary Workshops are one of the pastoral initiatives specially directed towards young people and children,” Fr. Jacek Gancarek told Fides. “Through this initiative, we can go into the schools, in various levels of elementary school, to present the role of the Church in the missionary field.” During the time of religion class, the missionary challenge will be presented in schools, as well. There are currently priests and lay missionaries of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa working in various countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Cameroon, Zambia, Argentina, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Ecuador, Philippines, Tunisia) and in Eastern Europe (Belarus and Ukraine). (MF/SL) (Agenzia Fides 30/10/2009)
