Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Santiago (Fides Service) - The commitment of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Chile for animation and missionary formation of the animators and all the baptized continues. On 15 and 16 July a basic Course of formation for the Animators of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PSMC) was held in the Diocese of San Jose de Melipilla. It was attended by thirty young people, who already work in the field of missionary Animation in the deaneries of Melipilla, Talagante and San Antonio. According to information sent to Fides by the National Directorate of the PMS, "the young people participated with great attention in this two-day missionary formation, they received with great interest and joy to be at the service of children who adhere to PMSC in their respective parishes and colleges". The training course ended with a celebration of the sending of missionaries, which was also attended by the director of the diocesan Department for the Missions, who said she was very happy with the response of the participants and the support given by the National Directorate of the PMS .On July 30, in Santiago, from 9.30am to 12, the missionary formation on the theme "It is Christ who lives in me" will be held at the headquarters of the National Directorate of the PMS, in which members of the community of the Archdiocese of Santiago have been invited. "Mission means to be Christ's witnesses, all witnesses and every day - is explained in the invitation -. Christ, whose mission we continue, is the witness par excellence and the model of Christian witness. The missionary who, despite all his human limitations and defects, lives a simple life according to the model of Christ, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities. Everyone in the Church can and should give this testimony, that in many cases is the only possible way of being missionaries". (SL) (Agenzia Fides 07/22/2011)
