Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
San Ramon (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, Sunday, August 29, marked the end of the "Mission School for Teens" held in San Ramon, a city that belongs to the Vicariate of Ñuflo Chavez, Bolivia. The School began on Thursday, August 26. According to a note sent to Fides from the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Bolivia, the event's main aim is to try to offer a missionary experience to young people and help them to assimilate the basic principles of spiritual formation and missionary cooperation within groups of the Holy Childhood Association.
The meeting was attended by adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15 years, who met in the Pastoral Center in San Ramon, to become protagonists of missionary animation in their communities and parishes. Four ecclesiastical jurisdictions were represented: the Vicariate of ÑufloChavez (who hosted the meeting), the Vicariate of Camiri, the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz, and the Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco.
In this "School," the subjects were: "Being a teen today," the theme chosen to learn the essence of every adolescent as regards the formative stage and personal maturity. Another subject dealt with the Pontifical Mission Societies. One of the main collaborators of the PMS, Hugo Colque, reported that one of the major points of the program of this four-day meeting was set up by visits to families in San Ramon, to witness the sending of missionaries. There were also moments of prayer, sharing, and working methods of missionary animation and other opportunities for training, in greater detail, for example, on the “Kerygma” of Bible training. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 08/30/2010)
