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The Pastoral Project of ‘Evangelii Gaudium’

byZenit
20 June 2014 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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Pastoral focus: A copy of the apostolic exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" ("The Joy of the Gospel") by Pope Francis. Photo: CNS/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters

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Pastoral focus: A copy of the apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”) by Pope Francis.
Photo: CNS/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters

By Ann Schneible

“THE Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” is the title of an international meeting to be held at the Vatican later this year for all those engaged in pastoral care.

The meeting, which is being organised by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation, will reflect on the central themes of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel”, with specific regard to the pastoral renewal of the Church.

In an interview with Zenit, an official of the pontifical council Fr Geno Sylva said the aim of the gathering would be to “to help bishops, and all pastoral workers, to transpose the beauty and the power of this document in a pastoral way so that it can be implemented in local and particular Churches around the world”.

“Following the promulgation of the apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium,” he said, the council took the initiative to organise the international meeting “which will reflect upon the central themes of this beautiful document in view of the pastoral renewal of the Church, in the light of the magisterium of Pope Francis”.

“It’s really all about how can we take the Holy Father’s call to missionary discipleship and concretely enact it and live it in the particular pastoral situations,” he said.

Fr Sylva said “The Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” stemmed from the wishes of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation president Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella.

“It was his desire to take this document, and really look to the ways in which it can concretely become that pastoral plan and project,” he said.

The meeting, which will run from September 18-20, is being held specifically for all pastoral workers – priests, deacons, religious and lay people, including volunteers.

“All of these people share most closely in the work of the bishops in discerning the ways in which to respond to the constant call of the Risen Lord, to announce His Gospel with a renewed missionary spirit, and a Christian joy,” Fr Sylva said.

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The meeting will open with a presentation titled “Listening to the poor”, by Jean Vanier, who founded two major international community-based organisations – L’Arche and Faith & Light – which support people with intellectual disabilities.

“We’re so excited that he’s going to open this whole meeting to us, to help us understand that we have so much to learn and listen from one another, as to how we can really respond to the call to holiness, to that unity and love with Christ,” Fr Sylva said.

Other speakers have been invited to speak on themes taken from Evangelii Gaudium, presenting them in a pastoral context. Themes include the promotion of the New Evangelisation in cities, and within the family context; the spirituality of one who evangelizes, and the people of God as agents of evangelization.

Fr Sylva said the talks would be directed at assisting “every baptised person to hear and to respond to the call, to the very duty that they have, that baptismal duty, to be evangelists and to invite people to the One Who is Love, Jesus Christ”.

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