Guatemala 2018

Objectives  

 1.  Favour workshops to analyse the reality, exchange experiences and training to be able to creatively evangelize in the peripheries [Action Plan of the General Government – 1^st process, n. 1.2].

 2.  Give incentives, in our Centres for higher learning and publishing, for a new biblical-theological reflection oriented to prophetic dialogue [APGG 1.3].

 3.  Create spirituality materials that support agents of evangelization in the peripheries [APGG 1.4]

Actions((1^st objective)

 A. Echoes from the online forum about “Conversion”

 B.Share good practices with Claretian DNA

 Geographic peripheries

 Social peripheries

 Cultural peripheries

 Digital peripheries

 Rural and metropolitan peripheries

 Peripheries of dialogue and of political-economic decision-making

 Peripheries of marginality, suffering and loneliness

 C. New guidelines for the analysis of reality in a Congregation going forth

 Actions((2^nd objective)

 A. Reflections / conferences that can be shared through Claretian Publications and other media:

 Fredy Cabrera CMF (Centroamerica): The periphery in the heart of Jesus Christ and his disciples

 Andrea Riccardi (founder of Saint Egidio): The art of welcoming, serving, donating: today's Gospel?

 Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez (El Salvador): Countries + catholic = catholic + social?

 Carlos Sánchez CMF (CESC): Claret on the peripheries of his world and time context

 Aquilino Bocos CMF (ITVC Madrid): Thought and praxis of proximity within the Claretian history

 José Cristo-Rey CMF (ITVC Madrid): From “Theology for the Mission” to a Mission for Theology

 B. Testimonies / interviews for apostoladocmf.org, The Claretian Mission, Mission Alive

 C. Photographic exhibition on “peripheries” in the Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Rome and, later, in the TICL and in our Centers of High Studies

 Actions((3^rd objective)

 A. Creation of spirituality, artistic and digital resources that can be available in our e-Library

  Poems / prayers 

  Drawings / paintings 

  Photos - calendars / posters 

  Songs / videos /...

 Participants 

Cláudio Gregianini + José Francisco Andrade – São Paulo, Brasil

Gabriel Mejía – Hogares Claret, Medellín + Henry Ramírez Soler – Meta, Colombia

Jesús María Amatria – Jimani, Dominican Republic + Pablo Szulk – Guantánamo, Cuba

Félix de Lama - Panama y César Espinoza - Coordinator of SM-MICLA, Centroamérica

Marçal Pereira + André Pinheiro – Carvalhos, Portugal

Angelo Cupini – Lecco + Renato Caprioli – Trieste, Italia

Agustín Ortiz – Claret Enea-Bilbao + Joan Soler – Casal Claret-Vic, España

Arvin Bellen – Bacacay Albay + Lorenzo Larry – Ormoc, Philippines

Arturo Morales – Aborigen Center – Taipei, Taiwan - China

John Christy – Varod, Sri Lanka

Soosai Antony – Manasu, Chennai, India

Lawrence Ikeh – Kala’a, Nigeria + Casmir Ibe – Chad

Jude Thaddeus Langeh – Publicaciones Claretianas de Cameroun

Artur Teixeira (Prefecto Gen. de Apostolado) + Lord Winner (Procura General de Misiones)

Rohan Dominic (Coordinador de la presencia claretiana en ONU-NY, USA)

4 Speakers: José Cristo-Rey + Carlos Sanchez + Fredy Cabrera + Card. Gregorio Rosa Chavez 

Mario Kevin + Angel Ochagavia (translators)

Ismael Montero (Provincial Superior of Centroamérica & President of MICLA) 

José Vidal (Ejecutive Secretary of MICLA) 

 Budget

Room and meals during the encounter paid by the General Prefecture of Apostolate;

Visa and travel to Guatemala paid by the Major Organism of the participant;

Cultural visit and contact with a local periphery offered by the Host Organism (Centroamérica);

Travel expenses and “pro labore” to the main speakers by the General Prefecture of Apostolate.