The president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, has given the UCAM the inaugural symposium entitled 'Mercy Eucharistic Celebration and'
"We need to increase communion with Christ and each other", as declared this morning at the Catholic University San Antonio (UCAM), President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, and Archbishop of Martirano, Archbishop Piero Marini, during the opening of the World Meeting of Officers and Directors Eucharistic Spiritual Works of the Church.
After the celebration of the Eucharist, presided by Monsignor Marini, took place the opening ceremony of the symposium in which presidents have spoken of the UCAM, and the World Federation of the Church Eucharistic Works, José Luis Mendoza and Eduardo Moreno and Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Monsignor Jose Manuel Lorca Planes.
The president of the Catholic University San Antonio, Jose Luis Mendoza, has called for boosting the Christian presence in the academic world of our time and emphasized the vocation of freedom and evangelization as pillars of UCAM.
Meanwhile, the global head of Eucharistic Works of the Church, Eduardo Moreno, advocated for dignity in care and chapels and shrines to promote Eucharistic practice in children.
Then the bishop of Cartagena, Lorca Bishop plans, defined the Eucharist as the hinge and the root of the Christian life and Archbishop Marini has coincided with the need to maintain full communion with Christ and the Pope.
Marini has referred in his paper `Mercy Eucharistic Celebration and 'the revival of Eucharistic worship observed a while now around certain metropolitan parishes in an attempt to revitalize communities unmotivated, promote the model of perpetual adoration and initiatives as the World Youth Day, which involve a high percentage of young Catholics.
The first day congress has also included the presentation of a portrait of Pope John Paul II, by the famous painter Murcia, Jose Maria Falgas, a panel discussion on Eucharistic Adoration, built by the Spiritual Director of the Archdiocesan Council of Adoration Los Angeles (USA), Ramon Martí, National Chaplain of Worship, Real, Perpetual and Universal to the Blessed Sacrament (ARPU), Mario Vazquez Carballo, and Pastor and Promoter of Perpetual Adoration in Italy and abroad, Roberto Pedrini , and the conferences entitled `Founders Eucharistic Works: Beyond specific paternity, set in the faithful Eucharistic profiles' and 'The Eucharist and the New Evangelization', by the Ecclesiastical Assistant of the World Federation of Eucharistic Works the Church ', Rafael Ibarguren Schindler, and the Consultant of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Aurelio Garcia Macias, respectively.
Source: UCAM