Church of Taiwan "with Pope Francis in challenge of evangelization"
Taipei (AsiaNews) - The Church of Taiwan "expresses her closeness to the Pope and the universal Church and is committed, in their continuing mission of evangelization", said Card. Joao Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, during his homily at a Mass of thanksgiving for the election of Francis, celebrated on April 14 in Taipei.
The liturgy, held at the parish of the Holy Family, was attended by all the bishops of Taiwan, all the priests of the capital, Msgr. Paul Russell, the Holy See's representative in Taipei, and many faithful. In addition to this great celebration, the Church in Taiwan has many other examples of activities with several Catholic initiatives taking place his week.
In the annual gathering known as the "three days", more than eighty teachers in Catholic schools, religion teachers and support teachers to pupils in difficulty meet in Kaohsiung to exchange ideas on teaching methods, take stock of the situation on the new national educational program and to provide common lines of approach in the various disciplines that allow greater exchange and collaboration between the network of all the Catholic schools on the island.
Also, this coming weekend, 150 people belonging to different Taiwanese Christian communities who belong to the Christian Life Community - CLC (基督 生活 团,) which was opened 60 years ago by the Society of Jesus in Taiwan and is made up of lay members of all age, will gather in the retreat centre in Changhua (彰化市, 静 山 灵 修 中心) to celebrate the 450th the anniversary of the communities birth in Rome, and to better outline the strategies of mission within the Chinese world, that is so hungry for spirituality.
Professor James Tsai (蔡老师), a professor at National Taiwan University (台大) in Taipei, told AsiaNews: "A few years ago we were uncertain about our future [the reference is to the fact that compared to his generation young Catholics seemed to be decreasing ed] but luckily we had to think again, because in the last five or six years a strong group of university students and recent graduates have become part of our journey of formation and mission. This is a great encouragement for the church of Taiwan and the Chinese mission in the world in which we are engaged: we have received so much, we want to give even more. "
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