Evangelization
The Preparatory Commission for REDCAMP 2015
The Preparatory Commission for the next REDCAMP (Redemptorist Camp of Evangelization) met in Venice from 9th to 10th December 2014. There were 10 Redemptorists and Lay Co-workers from Italy, Poland, France, Portugal and Philippines. The meeting was organized by the New Missionary Initiatives Commission, which is part of the New Evangelization Secretariat of CRE. During the discussions there was an evaluation of REDCAMP 2014, which was held in Cracow. All the feedback helped to prepare and strategise for the 2015 project. The work was carried...
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Between July 1st and August 28th 2014, the Redemptorist Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Astorga has become one of the spiritual centres of the Camino de Santiago. Every day at 9pm, pilgrims and Redemptorist volunteers shared night prayer, culminating with the Blessing of Pilgrims. The number of pilgrims participating in the Prayer varies every day: some days there are 60, other days no more than 2. But the number did not matter, because this is a service to those who walk along this ancient penitential pilgrimage. The Redemptorists,...
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This Secretariat tries to accomplish certain tasks around our “Apostolic Priorities” approved by our Assembly of CRE in Dublin in 2011. These priorities speak of the four groups of people to whom in a special way we want to address our mission in Europe, namely, to people affected by increased secularization and contemporary human issues; to young people; to ‘migrants’ and to ‘those left behind’; to people abandoned in some way by, or distanced from, ordinary pastoral care.Because of these priorities, we created a few “working groups” which...
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