Course promoted by FIAC and the AC Pius XI School of Holiness Foundation
Monday 16, 23 and 30 September 2024
Course language: Spanish
19pm Spain (14pm Argentina)
18.30pm Argentina ( 23pm Spain)
Every lesson will be held TWICE on the same day, at these two different times to facilitate participation.
Total course duration: 15 hours
RATIONALE FOR THE COURSE
“We are all called to be saints by living with love and offering our testimony in our daily work wherever we are” (GE 14).
Many Catholic Action associations, especially, but not only, Spanish-speaking ones, have asked to delve deeper into the theme of sanctity; therefore, the primary objective of the training proposal which involves lay people of all ages and conditions of life and priests present, underlining the pedagogical value of the witnesses who accompany us, precede us in our personal and community life, and valorising the presence and variety of witnesses of holiness in our lives. and community life, enhancing the presence and variety of witnesses of holiness in different historical, geographical and social contexts.
“The saints who have already come into the presence of God maintain bonds of love and communion with us” (GS 4).
In this context, we are also asked to understand how to promote the opening of a cause for the beatification and canonization of witnesses, lay people and priests, CAs and other ecclesial subjects.
The Course intends to present the Foundation's service in the local Church, among the people of God, also animated by the Exhortation Gaudete et Exultate: “I like to see holiness in the patient people of God: in the parents who educate their children with so much love, in the men and women who work to bring home bread, in the sick, in the elderly religious who never stop smiling. In this constancy of moving forward day after day I see the holiness of the Church militant. It is often the sanctity of "next door", of those who live near us and are a reflection of the presence of God." (CR 7)
COURSE OBJECTIVES
– Recall the human, social and popular value of holiness (Evangelii Gaudium – EG – 119), towards a popular mysticism (EG 237) and a mystical brotherhood (EG 92);
– Promote the call to holiness as the culmination of the educational and missionary proposal for lay people, especially for young people, through the example of many witnesses of holiness: lay people, assistants and bishops, especially those who were part of Catholic Action;
– Underline the importance of intercessory prayer, a significant expression of the holiness of the people of God, sharing with witnesses the joys and struggles of daily life;
– Collaborate with local Churches and the CA, identifying and rediscovering significant witnesses, lay people and priests of yesterday and today;
– Share mutual knowledge of witnesses from many countries and walk together on the path of holiness in the realities we live in and in our time;
– Support the interested parties and their respective postulations for the causes of canonization of the Blessed and the causes of beatification of the Venerables, servants and handmaids of God, in any country in the world, both at the Roman and diocesan levels ;
– know and concretely review the teaching on holiness from CEVII to Gaudete et Exsultate "so that the whole Church dedicates itself to promoting the desire for holiness". (See GE 177)
RECIPIENTS
- Managers and assistants of the CA and other ecclesial bodies.
- Priests and consecrated persons.
- People involved in training.
Registration and active participation are required, both with questions to the speakers and with the commitment to delve deeper into the topics with the bibliographical references that will be offered by the speakers.
STRUCTURE AND DURATION OF THE COURSE
16.09
- Introduction/Presentation Eva Fernández Mateo
- Theological and pastoral foundations by Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardoso
- Questions from participants
- Presentation of the recommended texts and in view of the second meeting
- Presentation of the recommended texts and in view of the second meeting
23.09
- Witnessing holiness before and after CEVII by Silvia M. Correale
- Questions from participants
- Virtual laboratory
- Presentation of recommended texts and questions for the third appointment
30.09
- The witnesses in the training and missionary proposal of the diocese (case history) by Don Alberto Fernández Sánchez.
- Alberto Fernández Sánchez
- AC Pius XI Foundation School of Holiness of Maria Grazia Tibaldi
- Virtual laboratory
- Tips for the future
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