EUROPE/ITALY - 2nd international meeting of Youth Groups for Adoration of the Eucharist 4 to 9 October in Rome on the theme “Eucharist and the identity of the human person”

Rome (Fides Service) - The 2nd International Meeting of Youth groups of Eucharistic Adoration will be held 4-9 October in Rome while the Bishops of the world are assembled for their ordinary Synod to reflect on the Eucharist and towards the end of the special Year of the Eucharist. The theme for reflection “Eucharist and the identity of the human person”, aims to encourage reflection on the consequences of an encounter between a person and Christ.
After a successful 1st meeting held in Rome last October with more than 200 delegates from 13 different European countries and an observer from the United States of America, Rome diocese Youth Pastoral Service and the Adoration group at the Church of St Agnes in piazza Navona, promoters of the initiative, intend to respond to needs which emerged at the first meeting: to build a network to support and encourage various initiatives connected with devotion for the Eucharist; promote meeting of youth groups who took part in the World Youth Day 2000 in Rome and as a result started or intensified their own experience extending it to other continents; share experience of the consequences for daily life for individuals and the life of the Church; strengthen love for the Eucharist; compare experience and methods; draw from adoration of Christ present in the Eucharist, new impulse for evangelisation; demonstrate young people’s support for the reflections of the bishops.
The programme of the 2nd International Meeting includes besides Masses in various churches in Rome, other prayers and adoration, a series of conferences: “John Paul II, man of the Eucharist” (Mgr Slawomir Oder, Postulator of the cause for the beatification and canonisation of John Paul II ); “Theology of the body: my identity as man or woman” (Prof. Angela Ales Bello, Pontifical Lateran University); “Affectivity and relations: Eucharist and life e” (Mgr. Prof. Livio Melina, Vice rector of the John Paul II Institute for the study of Marriage and the Family); “Mary, woman of the Eucharist” (Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, secretary of the congregation for the Divine Worship and the Sacraments); “A Christian reading of Politics”; “Labour: place of the Eucharist?”; “Christian view of the Person: Redemptor Hominis” (Mgr Massimo Camisasca, Superior General Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Carlo Borromeo).
Saturday 8 October at 5pm Archbishop. Stanislao Rylko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity will preside a Mass in Piazza del Popolo, followed by a Eucharistic Procession to Piazza Navona. The meeting closes Sunday 9 October. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 26/9/2005, righe 30, parole 379)
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