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Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – Fr Camilo Pauletti, 25 years a priest and 51 years of age, recently assumed the role of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil (see Fides 22/1/2011). Even though he only recently took up this role, he comes with imoressive experience in mission work and hopes to humbly contribute to missionary work in his Country. Fr Pauletti worked on mission for six years in Mozambique and five in the Amazon, from where he was called to be PMS National Director. “It was a great surprise,” says Fr Pauletti to Fides, “and I hope to be able to contribute a bit of my missionary experience.” Brazil is an impressive country in terms of land size and population. It has about 300 dioceses, and many missionaries – more than 30,000 groups from Holy Childhood and Missionary Adolescence.
Fr Pauletti participated in the 7th Continental Meeting of PMS National Directors of America, held in Santa Cruz (Bolivia), from 14 to 19 March. “As a diocesan priest in the south of Brazil,” says Fr Pauletti, “this meeting has been an amazing experience, in that it is my first time to Bolivia and I have had the opportunity to meet other National Directors who have inspired me with a lot of confidence. In Bolivia, I heard that missionary work is plentiful and beautiful. It gave me great pleasure to see some parishes and beautiful places, such as the Jesuit missions.”
“Knowing the missionary work by children and adolescents,” said the new PMS National Director, “has brought forth in me the strength to see a missionary Church as a positive aspect of Bolivia. I know what poverty is, the economic situation and the difficulties of reality, but in the missionary work of the Church, I sensed something very beautiful and I saw a very interesting and positive hope.” (CE) (Agenzia Fides, 23/03/2011)
