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Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “They will go out and preach everywhere on a mission without frontiers. ” is the title of the 4th National Meeting for Directors and Collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres
To be held in 17 al 20 September in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Sicily. Encounter and reciprocal exchange of experience and activities, listening and comparison will be the essential elements of the Meeting which hopes to be a lap on the missionary journey undertaken by the Church and the dioceses all over Italy. According to Mgr Giuseppe Pellegrini, director of the Italian Bishops' Office for Missionary Cooperation among Churches, important points to be raised at the Meeting include: the need to intensify mission commitment in all 225 of Italy's dioceses, and where there is none, open a Centre-Office for Mission to coordinate all missionary pastoral in the diocese; re-launch in the local Churches the experience of Fidei Donum service 50 years since the publication of the encyclical. Take the opportunity to give new mission impulse to every diocese. At the end of the Meeting the National Office for Missionary Cooperation among Churches will present its own report on 50 years of Fidei Donum activity in Italy.
The Meeting will open in the afternoon of 17 September with a biblical reflection and conference on the theme “Missionary Activity and Missio Ad Gentes “Questionnaire/Photograph of our Diocesan Mission Centres”. Day two, 18 September, will start Morning Prayer and a testimony from Latin America: to follow, a conference on “The limits and restrictions of our pastoral activity” with general discussion. Then themes for afternoon work groups will be presented. On 19 September the day will start with Morning Prayer and a testimony from Africa, followed again by group discussion. In the afternoon there will be an encounter with some communities of the local Church. Morning Prayer on the last day of the Meeting 20 September, will be followed by the presentation of group discussion summaries and the presentation of the survey on 50 years of Fidei Donum experience in Italy. The Meeting will close with a Celebration of the Eucharist. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 14/6/2007 - Righe 17; Parole 226)
