AMERICA/URUGUAY - Vocational Month: towards a new time of evangelization

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URUGUAY

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Blessed Jacinto Vera: "before the tabernacle he discovered that the only way to pacify the country was mission"

2023-01-31
On May 6 the Beatification of the first Bishop of Montevideo, born on a boat of emigrants

2022-12-21
The first Bishop of Montevideo, Jacinto Vera, missionary and tireless apostle to be beatified

2022-11-29
Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Gabriel Rainusso

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The Bishops reflect on the life of the communities and urge them to resume participation in Sunday Mass

2021-11-16
After the interruption due to the pandemic, thousands of pilgrims return to the Shrine of the "Our Lady of the Thirty-Three"

Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, June is Vocational Month in the Church in Uruguay and Mgr. Luis Eduardo González, Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo and at the head of the Vocations and Ministries Department of the Episcopal Conference, invites to pray for vocations and share the material that the dioceses, congregations, institutes and movements of consecrated life have prepared to reflect during this month.
"We celebrated a new Pentecost and received the Holy Spirit in our hearts, which animates us and pushes us towards a new time of evangelization. The Church, the body of Christ, has been renewed in its various charisms and ministries", writes Mgr. González in his message, sent to Agenzia Fides, on the occasion of Vocational Month 2020.
"Taking into account the path we are taking in preparation for the 5th National Eucharistic Congress - continues the Bishop -, this year's motto is:" I give myself for you ... and you? " ("Me entrego por ti ... ¿y tú?"). It is the handing over of the Lord that challenges us to respond. The handing over of Jesus on the cross is renewed in every Eucharist, a memorial of his death and resurrection". Mgr. González invokes the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, "so that the Lord will support us all in his fidelity and send new vocations to his Church".
The V National Eucharistic Congress is scheduled for next October in Montevideo, the last one celebrated in the country dates back to the year 2000, in the city of Cologne, for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. As the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay points out, a Eucharistic Congress "is, first of all a feast of the whole Church around Christ, her Lord and Master, present in the Eucharist", who meets "to reflect on the Eucharistic mystery, to celebrate it, to adore it and to renew her commitment to evangelization with enthusiasm in the contemporary world". (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 18/6/2020)