AMERICA/CHILE – Sending Mass for the young people of the Archdiocese of Concepción ready for Lisbon 2023

AMERICA/CHILE – Sending Mass for the younger folks of the Archdiocese of Concepción prepared for Lisbon 2023

Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Concepción (Agenzia Fides) – The younger folks of the Archdiocese of Concepción are additionally prepared to fulfill Pope Francis throughout the World Youth Days which can happen from August 1 to six in Lisbon. Preparations for them started final 12 months and have advanced into quite a few actions. “Within the Archdiocese of Concepción there may be presently a delegation of 160 folks, together with many younger college college students, coming from faculties, parishes, actions and different realities of our Church”, stories Fides the Episcopal Delegates of the Vicariate for Youth Ministry. “In view of the subsequent World Youth Day, all have been working and making pilgrimages since final 12 months. Some have began their approach to WYD since they have been provided to take part within the occasion in Portugal”. “Our work, defined to Fides one of many delegates, consisted primarily in accompanying, by means of diocesan conferences, the younger folks of the diocese but additionally those that are a part of actions and congregations. Alongside the best way, campaigns of help have been put in place to boost the mandatory funds.We have now ready moments of formation, together with 5 diocesan conferences throughout which younger individuals who have participated in earlier WYDs shared their testimonies. Amongst different initiatives, we held conferences on fraternity in addition to prayer, motivational teaching, management growth”.
“On July 15, we celebrated a sending Mass within the Temple of San José de Concepción, for pilgrims and households”, the delegate continued. The Temple of San José is vital as a result of it homes the Youth Encounter ‘Cristo Vive’ House, the place varied actions for younger folks happen. Created following the apostolic exhortation Christus vivit that Pope Francis revealed in 2019, the Youth Assembly House is a spot that the younger folks of the parish themselves requested instantly from the Archbishop of Concepción, Fernando Chomali, the place they will perform actions of various sorts, starting from conferences to prayer, cultural encounters and sharing.
Inaugurated on September 3, 2021, regardless of the pandemic, this place isn’t reserved completely for younger Catholics, however everybody can use it at no cost”. Moreover, on November 11, on the event of the most important youth pilgrimage in southern Chile, held within the city of Yumbel, the younger individuals who will take part within the WYD in Lisbon will meet to share their testimonies in order that the entire group of the archdiocese can take part. (AP) (Agenzia Fides, 19/7/2023)

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