Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young Australians of the Christian Life Movement (MVC) have crossed the Pacific to arrive in Peru, where they have been carrying out an intense work of solidarity and evangelization throughout the month of January. About thirty boys and girls between ages 18 and 30, mostly from Sydney, did a work of evangelization and human advancement in some areas of the departments of Lima and Ancash.
During the preparation for the mission, young people gathered in the "Blue Mountains,” an area adjacent to the city of Sydney, to acclimatise to altitude, to learn the Spanish language, and to train properly for giving catechesis. With this enthusiasm to deepen in and hand on their faith, they arrived in Peru. At first the group worked on the renovation of a school in San Juan de Miraflores, in the Diocese of Lurin, and helped out with the catechism with the children of that community. Then they moved into the city of Llupa in the area north of the Peruvian Andes, at Callejon de Huaylas, near Huaraz, where they built (with the help of the community), a chapel for 120 people. They were here for 10 days and while they participated in the construction of the chapel, they held a lively catechesis for children and for the whole community, who were very welcoming and grateful to the young missionaries.
The Christian Life Movement is an association of faithful of Pontifical Right. It forms a part of the “Sodalite Family” and participates in the spirituality of the “Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana,” begun in Peru in 1969 as Sodalitium Christianae Vitae. There are now hundreds of young people from different countries that, through the encounter with Christ and in union with the MVC, feel motivated to go beyond their borders to proclaim and bear witness to the faith in other countries. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 15/02/2010)
