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Seoul (Fides Services) - The Commission for Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea CBCK comprising 13 active members appointed for a three year term, including priests, religious and lay men and women, met recently to discus initiatives and programmes to render lay Catholics in Korea more effective in new evangelisation.
The Commission decided to hold two seminars 23 - 24 April and 23 - 24 June and to establish closer contact with diocesan commission to harmonise initiatives and goals.
Laity Day, marked with various initiatives in dioceses all over the country, will remain a central event in the pastoral year. The Commission will distribute special material and promote formation courses for lay Catholics.
Lay Catholics are called to give authentic Christian witness above all in the family, the cradle of evangelisation. The laity are called to strengthen their spirituality in order to counter phenomena such as materialism, hedonism, secularisation, the Korean Bishops’ Conference said recently underlining that the family is not only the object of the Church’s pastoral care it is also one of the most effective agents evangelisation.
The theme of the Family is the focus in every Asian Church at the moment. The theme of last general assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences last year held precisely in Korea was ‘The Asian Family towards a Culture of Life’. The Bishops instituted the Commission for Lay Apostolate in Korea in 1994 during a plenary assembly.
(PA) (Agenzia Fides 11/03/2005 Righe: 27 Parole: 280)
