AMERICA/MEXICO - Towards National Mission Congress: 3rd national meeting for missionary animation and formation on the theme “Eucharist and Mission”

Friday, 4 February 2005

La Paz (Fides Service) - “Eucharist, source and summit of Mission” is the slogan of the 3rd National Meeting for Missionary Animation and Formation which will take place from 7 to 11 February in La Paz, Mexico, organised by the Pontifical Missionary Union and missionary institutes operating in Mexico, as a fruit of the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2.
The mission event which is a framework of the Year of the Eucharist will reflect on Eucharist and Mission focussing on the missionary dimension of the Eucharist in the light of the 48th International Eucharist Congress held last October in 2004 Guadalajara, Mexico. The meeting is part of a series of initiatives in preparation for the National Mission Congress scheduled for November 2005 in Merida, Yucatan Mexico.
The central objective of the meeting is to “promote, encourage and strengthen a spirit of mission in bishops, priests, seminarians, consecrated persons, formation houses and lay missionaries and to increase awareness of the evangelising mission of the Church and respond to the mission Ad Gentes” Father Antonio Camacho M.G., member of the organising committee told Fides.
The aim of the event is to “help the local church be a missionary church and to lay the foundation for integration and formation of the National Mission Council and increase integration and spirituality of communion in dioceses, parishes, congregations and missionary movements”. In fact the meeting will be oriented to identify ways to integrate missionary pastoral with ordinary pastoral.
The initiative aims to promote a missionary dimension of consecrated life, give new impulse to missionary animation, formation and organisation by means of conferences and debates on themes regarding mission today as well as workshops during which participants will share their missionary experience and reflection.
Participants will include Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Archbishop Emilio Berlie Belauzaran of Merida, Yucatan; Bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz of La Paz B. C. S.; Bishop Florencio Olvera Ochoa of Cuernavaca, Morelos as well as other bishops, priests, seminarians, members of institutes of consecrated life, formation houses, and lay missionaries. Participants must be agents of missionary pastoral and must have read the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucaristia. For more information: ompe@cem.org.mx; comunicacionmg@mg.org.mx(Agenzia Fides 4/2/2005 righe 40 parole 420)


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