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20-09-2018
II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CATECHESIS. Vatican City, September 20/23, 2018.
II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CATECHESIS “Catechist: Witness to the Mystery”. Vatican City, Rome, September 20/23, 2018. Paul VI Hall.
Organized by Pontifical Council for promoting the New Evangelization, the II International Congress on Catechesis will be focused on Catechist: Witness to the Mystery.
PROGRAM
- Thursday, September 20
Afternoon
4:00 pm Opening prayer
4:15 pm Introductory Remarks (Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization)
4:45 pm Presentation: Lex credendi, lex orandi (Abbot Gregory J. Polan, OSB, Abbot Primate of the Order of St. Benedict)
5:15 pm Mystagogical catechesis on Christian initiation (Archbishop Francesco Cacucci, Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy)
- Friday, September 21
Morning
9:00 am Prayer
9:15 am Presentation: The Mystery illuminates Christian existence (Prof. Dr. Marianne Schlosser, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, Austria)
0:00 am Break
10:30 am Presentation: Christian initiation and kerygmatic catechesis (Mgr. Andrea Lonardo, Director of the Office for Culture and Universities of the Diocese of Rome)
11:15 am Q&A session
Afternoon
3:30 pm In-depth thematic seminars in language groups
(English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish).
An introduction to one of the following themes, under the guide of an expert, for groups of 30-50 participants:
Mystagogy – an experiential and sapiential introduction to the mystery of Christ
Narrative and symbolic language
Re-living the history of salvation: the liturgical year and catechesis
The Day of the Lord: the foundation and nucleus of all the liturgical year (Sacrosanctum Concilium 106)
Announcing eternal life: living out hope.
- Saturday, September 22
Morning
9:00 am Prayer
9:15 am Presentation: The Catechumenate: a challenge for the new evangelization (Madam Claire Bernier, Diocesan delegate for the Service of Faith, Diocese of Angers, France)
10:00 am Q&A session
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Concert: “Hope” Great Choir (Turin, Italy)
11:45 am Address by Pope Francis
Afternoon
3:00 pm Round table: Popular piety: a form of evangelizatio
Archbishop Filippo Santoro, Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
Bishop Sebastià Taltavull Anglada, Bishop of Mallorca, Spain
Rev. Michał Legan, OSPPE, Częstochowa, Poland
4:30 pm Break
5:00 pm Lectio divina (Rev. Fidel Oñoro, CJM, formerly Director of the Biblical and Pastoral Center of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America – CELAM.)
5:45 pm Conclusion (Archbishop Octavio Ruiz Arenas, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization)
- Sunday, September 23
10:30 am Celebration of Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
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Attendance fee: 50 euros
