ASIA – Younger individuals within the footsteps of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Shymkent (Agenzia Fides) – “Younger individuals within the nations of Central Asia ought to know that they aren’t alone on their approach to holiness, however that there are a lot of of their friends who share the identical beliefs. They need to know what it means to be dedicated Christians, a residing instance of religion within the midst of their tradition, understanding that they reside in a Muslim majority. That’s the reason we organized a gathering at first of August, in Shymkent, Kazakhstan between Uzbek, Tajik and Kazakh members of the ‘Voice of the Phrase’, a youth motion of the Institute of the Incarnate Phrase. They’re younger individuals who have dedicated themselves to residing the instance of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and to being lively within the apostolate and in formation”, says Father Ariel Alvarez Toncovich, priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Phrase and parish priest of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Samarkand
(Uzbekistan) to Fides.
About 40 younger individuals and 7 spiritual from the Kazakh metropolis of Shymkent, from Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and from the younger group in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) took half within the initiative. The younger individuals, says Father Toncovich, “lived days of formation and friendship. There have been days devoted to catechesis, whereas the final day was devoted to relaxation and enjoyable on the lake”. “It is vitally essential”, stresses the missionary, “that they get to know one another, alternate experiences and see that it’s attainable to reside as Christians, even in these nations. It’s exactly for that reason that we now have invited two women who’re finishing their novitiate at Karaganda Monastery, in addition to a pair who bore witness to what it means to be a Christian household in Central Asia. These are two completely different types of vocation, however each are very uncommon on this space.”
The priest is definite that the expertise will bear many fruits: “The younger individuals had been visibly pleased and loved each second to the complete, from the catechesis to the soccer match. It was a fruitful initiative, which we observed above all from the truth that the younger individuals, every time they’d time, got here to us spiritual to ask us for recommendation on their doubts, issues and goals for the long run”, the missionary concludes.
Catholics are a minority within the nations of Central Asia, a Muslim-majority geographical space the place the Church was reborn solely after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resultant finish of spiritual persecution. In the present day there are 70 parishes in Kazakhstan, 5 in Uzbekistan, 3 in Kyrgyzstan, 2 in Tajikistan, whereas in Turkmenistan round 250 trustworthy collect within the Chapel of the Transfiguration of the Lord within the capital, Ashgabat. (LF/PA) (Agenzia Fides, 9/8/2022)
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