JMV Launches International Year of Youth
Greetings from the JMV International Secretariat in Madrid! Yesterday, we launched the Year of the Youth in the Vincentian Family. VINCENTIAN MARIAN YOUTH
International Secretariat
MADRID
September 28, 2004
The International Presidents and Secretaries
Vincentian Family
Dear friends,
The grace of our Lord be with you always!
Greetings from the JMV International Secretariat in Madrid! Yesterday, we launched the Year of the Youth in the Vincentian Family. It is a wonderful initiative now, such that the relevance of the Vincentian charism in the 21st century depends greatly on our capacity to influence the new generation in a way that the poor may count on the hands and the hearts of the young people who serve and announce the good news to them. As a magnificent finale to this year that has just begun, we are organizing a big “Vincentian Youth Encounter” in Cologne (Germany) from August 16-25, 2005 to celebrate the 20th World Youth Day under the theme, “We have come to do Him homage.” (Mt. 2:2) We hope that around the Holy Father, we may be able to unite the young members of all the branches of our family in order to know each other and celebrate our faith and our commitment together. For more information, please visit our website: www.secretariadojmv.org. We will be sending you more information about this in the future. This is all for the moment.
May the feast of St. Vincent inspire in us the passion for Jesus and for the poor so that we may “love the way He loved us and put into practice what He had taught us.”
Your brother in the missionary Christ,
Pedro Castillo, CM
With Christ, be Life, in the Lives of Others
C/José Abascal 30, 28003 Madrid.
Tel: 34 91 591 21 64 / Fax: 34 91 448 31 89
secinterjmv@telefonica.net
www.secretariadojmv.org
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