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Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Jesus in the Eucharist makes us brothers and Sisters in Mission” is the slogan of the 3rd National Meeting of Holy Childhood Animators in Argentina which will bring together more than 800 delegates from dioceses all over the country. This mission event in the context of the Year of the Eucharist will take place 18 to 19 June at Villa San José run by the Marist Brothers in Lujan, Buenos Aires. The event is organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies, through the national office for Holy Childhood in collaboration with the Bishops’ Commission for Missions.
“We hope to strengthen the spirit of communion and missionary sharing among dioceses and regions; share as animators, the spirit Eucharistic, as source and centre of mission and assume responsibility for formation, as a challenge for animation of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence” the National Director told Fides. Fr Jairo said that the rapid growth of Holy Childhood in Argentina, and all over Latin America, is the source of great joy and gratitude to God. In this sense Fr Calderón Benavides hopes “the Holy Childhood assembly give new impulse to the Church in Argentina and make it more missionary”.
Sr Susana Aguilar, national secretary of the PMS urged diocesan directors to take part in the meeting which she said offers an opportunity for sharing and enrichment thanks to personal and cultural contribution of animators from various regions of Argentina, as well as an important opportunity to learn more about the development of the PMS and the importance of having well formed animators to accompany the missionary growth of children and adolescents.
On Sunday 19 June at 12 noon at the national shrine of Our Lady of Luján, the encounter will close with a solemn concelebration of Mass presided by Bishop Luis Stockler, chairman of the Bishops’ Commission for Missions. (RZ) (Agenzia Fides 4/5/2005, righe 25, parole 313)
