AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Morón announces Diocese’s 50th anniversary Jubilee Year calling for “profound renewal in each of our communities in view of new ardour and enthusiasm for the task of evangelisation commanded by the Lord”

Monday, 5 June 2006

Morón (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Luis Guillermo Eichhorn of the diocese of Morón in Argentina has called a Jubilee Year to mark the 50th anniversary of the diocese created by Pope Pius XII on 11 February 1957. The first bishop was Miguel Raspanti. “Fifty years after that memorable event we wish to celebrate with joy and gratitude” the Bishop says in a pastoral letter announcing the Jubilee Year.
“In this Jubilee Year we wish to reach a deeper awareness of God’s love for us, strengthen our love for Him and our unity with Him”, the Bishop writes recalling two fundamental priorities of his ministry in the diocese - communion and mission -. The Bishop says the Jubilee Year should: “be a time for profound renewal in each of our communities in the spirit of a fraternal Church which incarnates communion becoming a sign for all men and women and fulfilling with enthusiasm the task of evangelisation which the Lord commanded and asks of us especially today through the bishops of the Church”.
Bishop Luis Guillermo says the Jubilee will be a time for celebration but also for spiritual, catechetical and missionary growth, “we must contemplate the face of Christ in order to reaffirm our membership in the diocesan Church, deepening our knowledge about the Church and striving for authentic renewal in view of organic diocesan pastoral work". A Jubilee year is also “an opportunity for reconciliation and encounter... a time to build communion: with our brothers and sisters of the other Churches, to pray and build unity together; with civil institutions in constructive dialogue to promote to common good of society; with sister dioceses, San Martin, San Justo and Merlo-Moreno which are invited to join our celebrations”. The letter ends with a call to all pastoral workers and communities to play an active part in the Jubilee Year. The Bishop urges young people especially to work with love, enthusiasm and great hope to renew the Church in Morón.
The Jubilee Year will start on 17 June, with the celebration of Corpus Christi and culminate on 5 October 2007 with the feast of Our Lady patroness of the diocese of Morón. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 5/6/2006; righe 30, parole 403)


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