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“1 Million for the Pope”

23 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | Best Practices

Pope Francis wants change! One of his most urgent calls for change is expressed in the foreword of the DOCAT – the Social Doctrine of the Church for young people! There, he is looking at the needs of the world and is wondering: “Can we not do more to make this revolution of love and justice a reality in many parts of this tormented planet? He is screaming out: “If a Christian in these days looks away from the need of the poorest of the poor, then in reality he is not a Christian!” In fact, to break it all down, he is dreaming of a revolution of love and justice based on Social Doctrine. ” I wish I had a million young Christians or, even better, a whole generation who are for their contemporaries ‘walking, talking social doctrine'”.

This call of the Holy Father has gone out to the whole world through a growing number of translations of the DOCAT (currently 32), the release of an App in which young people can directly answer this call (www.docat-app.com), and through a video message (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_eIm3X6tU). Only 6 months after the release of this campaign called “1 Million for the Pope” many grass-roots as well as hierarchical and nationwide programs arose all around the world. Only judging from the dawn of this project, it is already predictable that this will be one of the biggest projects concerning Social Doctrine within the church, and one of the Church’s best, most attractive and successful tools to reach the young people of the world with the Pope’s intentions within the next years.

Information
YOUCAT Foundation gGmbH | BC Austria
www.youcat.org
www.facebook.com/YOUCAT.org
www.docat-app.com
Contact Person during the Symposium: Johann Rhee  | Head of Youdepro
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Acompañar a los jóvenes hoy, tema del Simposio del CCEE

23 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | News Releases

News Release of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference

Madrid, 23 de febrero de 2017.- Barcelona será  la sede del Simposio organizado por el Consejo de las Conferencia Episcopales de Europa (CCEE) junto con la Conferencia Episcopal Española del 28 al 31 de marzo de 2017. Con el lema “Acompañar a los jóvenes  a responder libremente a la llamada de Cristo”, el encuentro tiene como objetivo descubrir cómo comprometerse y afrontar la situación actual en Europa, acompañando a los jóvenes “como Jesús hiciera con sus discípulos en el camino de Emaús (LC 24,13-35)”. Además este Simposio busca estimular el diálogo con los jóvenes en diferentes direcciones.

En este encuentro participarán responsables de las distintas conferencias episcopales  europeas de catequesis, enseñanza,  universidades, vocaciones y jóvenes.

Acompañamientos en diferentes etapas y ámbitos

El encuentro dará comienzo el martes, 28 de marzo. El arzobispo metropolitano de Westminster y Vice presidente del CCEE, el cardenal Vicent Nichols,  el presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Española,  junto con el arzobispo de Barcelona, Mons. Juan José Omella,  ofrecerán los saludos de bienvenida a los participantes.

Este encuentro se divide en cinco bloques. En ellos se hablará de las necesidades de la persona que es acompañada, de cómo realizar ese acompañamiento, de Evangelización y buenas prácticas o  de la belleza como valor.  Entre las actividades previstas está programada la celebración de una Feria de Buenas Prácticas que pueden servir de ayuda  y ejemplo para inspirar colectivamenta y dar a conocer nuevas realidades que puedan ser reproducidas en otros contextos. Además se celebrará un Plenario sobre el futuro Sínodo en 2018, que lleva por tema vocaciones y jóvenes. El día 31  de marzo los participantes harán públicas las conclusiones del Encuentro.

El arzobispo metropolitano de Cracovia, Mons. Marek Jedraszewski, Presidente de la Comisión del CCEE para la Catequesis, Enseñanza, Universidad, explicará en la primera conferencia cuáles son los temas más relevantes en el acompañamiento de los jóvenes en la actualidad.

El presidente del Pontificio Consejo para la Promoción de la Nueva Evangelización, Mons. Rino Fisichella, quien hablará acerca de Evangelización y buenas prácticas. Mons. Fisichella hará reflexionar a los participantes sobre la importancia que tienen los ejemplos o cómo dejarse inspirar por otros.

Los reponsables de  los 5 sectores –catequesis, enseñanza, universidad, jóvenes y vocaciones- debatirán en una mesa redonda sobre el acompañamiento que hace la Iglesia en las diferentes etapas de la vida, con un posterior diálogo con la Asamblea.

A la pregunta “Cómo podemos acompañar, respetando la libertad humana”, pretende reponder en una ponencia la Hna. Lola Arrieta, Carmelita de la Caridad Vedruna, experta en acompañamiento juvenil.

En el transcurso del encuentro destaca también la conferencia sobre “Sagrada Familia: belleza, arte, arquitectura y liturgia”, dimensiones a través de las cuales la persona puede ser acompañada. Michel Remery, Vice Secretario del CCEE e  investigador del área de Liturgia y Arquitectura de la Escuela deTeología Católica de la Unviersidad de Tilburg,  será el encargado  de desarrollar este tema, en el que además propone a Gaudí como testimonio de vida.

El presidente del CCEE y arzobispo metropolitano de Génova, cardenal Angelo Bagnasco, reflexionará en el discurso final sobre las líneas a seguir en el futuro a la luz de las conclusiones que se aporten.

La información completa y actualizada de este Simposio se pueden encontrar en la web: symposim2017.ccee.eu

 

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The 2017 Symposium process begins

23 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | News Releases

Meeting of national delegates for catechesis
Rabat, Malta, 1-4 March 2016

The process which will culminate in the celebration of a Symposium in Barcelona in Spring 2017 on Christian journeying with young people is about to begin with a meeting of national delegates for catechesis, the first of a series of four meetings between now and June which will bring together on separate occasions also national delegates for university pastoral work, for youth work, school work and for vocations.

Over the next few months, the different sections of CCEE’s ‘Catechesis, School and University’ Commission, along with the EVS (European Vocations Service) and delegates for youth work will meet separately to draw up the programme for the 2017 Congress in the light of the challenges emerging from their different areas of work.

“We want to create bridges between the different areas of pastoral work, which are rightly specialised. As well as the sharing between the different fields, we want to reflect together on the ways to accompany children and today’s young people, in their unity as people, in their faith journey”, said Fr Michel Remery, Deputy General Secretary of CCEE. He went on to say that “the challenge, which already emerged during the Symposium of bishops on ‘Young people and new evangelisation’ which CCEE had organised in 2002, is that of getting national delegates for catechesis, school pastoral work, youth and university pastoral work, and those responsible for vocations, from the whole of the European continent, to work together on one issue: accompanying young people in their response to God’s call”.

In Malta (1-4 March 2016), the first stage of this process, with national delegates for catechesis as protagonists, there will be an opportunity for listening and examining the situation of catechesis in Europe through the presentation of reports from the Bishops’ Conferences which will touch in particular on the theme of the catechumenate, the Jubilee for Catechists and the Jubilee of Mercy.

Subsequently, there will be a reflection on youth pastoral work in the digital and multimedia world from Sr Nathalie Becquart, responsible for the French Bishops’ Conference’s National Service for the evangelisation of young people and for vocations. Finally, the meeting will conclude with various aspects (group work, discussion in plenary sessions, etc.) aimed at preparing for the Symposium in Barcelona.

The meeting, which will take place in the Archepiscopal Seminary in Rabat, is being organised in collaboration with the Maltese Bishops’ Conference.

A news release will be published at the end of the meeting.

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The 2017 Symposium in Barcelona

Below is some brief information about the Barcelona Symposium. Further information will be sent out to journalists in due course.

Participants

The Symposium envisages the participation of national delegates from the Bishops’ Conferences in Europe for catechesis, schools, universities, youth pastoral work and vocations. Also invited will be representatives from lay groups and church movements, and a large number of young people.

Aims and methodology

Looking towards the Symposium, which falls within the activities CCEE has progressed throughout its history – think, for example, of the IV and X Symposia of Bishops which took place in 1979 and 2002 respectively, of the congresses and annual meetings organised over the years and aimed at bishops and delegates from the various areas outlined above – some guidelines have been prepared which will be discussed and completed in the different stages of the process and which will then constitute the basis of the programme of the Symposium.

The various stages of the process

  1. Meeting of national delegates for Catechesis – Rabat, Malta, 1-4 March 2016;
  2. Meeting of national delegates for university pastoral work – Szeged, Hungary, 27-29 April 2016;
  3. Meeting of an EVS working group (European Vocations Service) – Brussels, Belgium, 10-11 May 2016;
  4. Meeting of a working group for school pastoral work – Paris, France, 16 May 2016.
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Ecoles de prière pour les jeunes

10 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | Best Practices

Des écoles de prière se créent aujourd’hui partout en France. Elles veulent permettre aux enfants et aux jeunes de rencontrer le Christ dans la prière et l’amour fraternel. Les écoles de prière s’adressent aux jeunes, garçons et filles, de 6 à 18 ans pour des séjours de cinq à dix jours. Il s’agit d’un mode d’activité ponctuel dans l’année qui ne veut pas se substituer aux activités paroissiales ni aux mouvements de jeunes. Le séjour est structuré autour d’un thème choisi dans la Parole de Dieu chaque année par l’association ; en 2016, le texte choisi était : « Heureux les miséricordieux car ils obtiendront miséricorde » (Mt 5, 7). Ensuite, une Parole est choisie pour chaque jour sur ce thème, selon le schéma suivant : 1er jour, accueil, puis Marie, le pardon, l’eucharistie, la croix, la résurrection et l’envoi. Ces différents textes sont proposés pour former un itinéraire spirituel pour la semaine.
L’équipe d’animation se compose d’un « berger », responsable de l’aspect spirituel, d’un directeur, d’un prêtre accompagnateur et d’animateurs expérimentés. Les animateurs sont appelés par les trois responsables. Ils choisissent des animateurs motivés et formés et qui sont aussi bien des jeunes adultes, des parents, des grands-parents que des séminaristes ou des religieux. Il y a souvent des catéchistes parmi les animateurs et animatrices. En 2014, 1500 jeunes ont participé à ces séjours.

Contact Person during the Symposium: Pauline Dawance  | Directrice du Service National de la Catéchèse et du Catéchuménat
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Valerie and the priest

8 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | Best Practices

A young journalist, for whom the catholic church is merely an antiquated institution, accompanies a young priest in his daily life. For a whole year she spends about two weeks in a month with him: She observes his prayer practice, his work as a chaplain in a parish and she accompanies him in his free time.

She wants to know, why a young man like him chooses to be a priest. What does the believe in God means to him, how does this influence his life and his actions and the way he thinks? She writes about their conversations and her impressions in a blog and on facebook. There are also a lot of video clips, where their dialogues about a wide range of topics are shown, which can also be fewed on a youtube-channel. By the means the internet offers we can present hit rates, that show, how very successful this project is. With the blog and the site on facebook we get monthly in touch with 600.000 to 1.3 Mio. people.

The people, who read the texts and watch the videos, are essentialy young people between 18 and 24. Among them there are a lot of, who are active believers, but there are even more, who are distant from the church or nonbelievers. For all of them the project offers an opportunity to find answers to questions, they wouldn´t have asked without an outward impulse. The project is initiated and accounted for by the German National center for vocation in cooperation with the Bishop’s conference and an agency, that is specalized in strategic planning.

Contact Person during the Symposium: Anselm John  | Referent Zentrum für Berufungspastoral
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Prayer Spaces in Schools

8 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | Best Practices

Children and young people are innately curious about life. Growing up raises lots of questions, some to do with their experience, both the good and the bad, and some to do with their sense of wonder at the universe we live in and whether there’s more to life than meets the eye.

Prayer Spaces in Schools enable children and young people, to explore these life questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way. Taking a Christian perspective as a starting point, prayer spaces give children and young people an opportunity to develop skills of personal reflection and to explore prayer in an open, inclusive and safe environment. There are lots of ways to choose and organise the prayer activities in your prayer space.

One could choose prayer activities to fit with a particular season or event (e.g. Advent, a sporting event, exams). One could choose a set of prayer activities that follow a particular journey or Biblical story (e.g. the Lord’s Prayer, the Good Samaritan). Or one could choose prayer activities that blend around particular themes or even school values or school topics (e.g. self-image, thankfulness). What’s important is that you choose your prayer activities carefully.

Information
Prayer Spaces in Schools | BC Malta
www.prayerspacesinschools.com
www.fb.com/prayerspacesMT
www.knisja.org/prayerspacesresroucesContact Person during the Symposium: Fr Reuben Gauci | Coordinator Spiritual Development in Schools
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Young Catholic Academy

7 February 2017 |by cceesitesAdmin | 0 Comments | Best Practices

The Young Catholic Academy consisted of two parts.

1) A competition with the aim to hear the voices of young people according the Year of Mercy. So they could send their work and thoughts about Mercy (social initiatives, art, literature, theology, philosophy, music). Because of the possibility to win something and to join at the Academy and to receive the price from our Youth Bishop, a lot of young people joined the contest. They sent wonderful art work, short stories, reported about their work with refugees,… and: ALL young people in the age between 15 and 28 dealt with the team according to their charismas and showed themselfes as a living part of the body of Christ. This has been the beginning of young catholic culture of mercy in Germany!

2) The Academy-Weekend offered times of Holy Mass, communion prayer, workshops, speeches (two bishops and on high rank politican). The young people got in contact with each other and because of all dealt with their talents with the theme of Mercy, everyone had to offer a new perspective to the other one. It was great to see! Our job has been to accompany these young people in their talents to bring them into the body of Christ. And we will continue this work, so that art, music, literature, … will become an offer for Christ. This is a big dream and we can accompany Young people on their ways. Just great and easy: a competition and bringing them together.

Information
Young Catholic Academy | BC Germany
www.afj.de

Contact: Paul Metzlaff | Departement for Faith Formations

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