July 14th – Tuesday
Welcome and presentation
18.00 Mass - optional.
19.00 Evening meal.
20.00 Presentation of national groups
Logistical information.
Presentation of the programme and the
manner of conducting the work of the
Congress.
20.45 End of session
21.00 Eucharistic Adoration.
22.00 Recreation.
“The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of
all who encounter Jesus ... With Christ joy is
constantly born anew.” (Evangelii Gaudium 1).
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July 15 – Wednesday
Message of the General Superiors: Sr. Ivete
Garlet CSAC and Sr. Izabela Świerad SAC.
11.45 Talk of the Ecclesiastical Assistant Fr. Jacob
Nampudakam SAC.
Questions/Discussion in the plenum.
8.30
Morning Prayer
9.00
“Mission in the family, of the family and
for the family” - Hermelinda & Arturo
Zamperlini, Teams of Our Lady.
10.00 Questions/discussion in the plenum.
12.25 End of session
10.30 Interval
12.30 Lunch.
11.00 Testimonies - the experience of the Union as
families - Leossandro Adaminski and
Cristilene Nascimento de Sousa Coutinho.
Testimonies - Fr. Emerson José da Silva, SAC
and Cheryl Sullivan.
15.00 Inaugural talk of the III General Congress:
Donatella Acerbi, President of the Union.
15.45 Questions/discussion in plenum.
16.15 Interval.
16.45 PowerPoint Presentations on the experience
of the life of the Union - Brazil, Poland,
India, Italy, the Ivory Coast, Canada,
Australia.
12.20 End of session
12.30 Lunch.
15.00 The meaning of living a commitment in the Union
through baptism and confirmation - Maria Domke.
18.20 End of session
15.20 Small groups.
18.30 Evening prayer.
16.20 Interval.
19.00 Evening meal.
16.50 Plenum.
7.30
Breakfast
20.00 Eucharistic Adoration.
17.30 End of session.
8.30
Morning Prayer.
21.00 Recreation.
17.45 Eucharist.
9.00
Opening Eucharist of the General Congress,
presided over by His Excellency Card. Odilo
Scherer.
“May our lives be always at the foot of the
Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in Jesus
Christ we will find true joy more and more”
(OCL 7, p. 36).
10.30 Break - coffee.
11.00 Opening of Congress.
Invocation of the Holy Spirit with a hymn.
Welcome address: Dario Ivatiuk Junior,
President of the Union in Brazil.
19.00 Evening meal.
20.00 Cultural evening - hymns, songs,
presentations etc. by each national/linguistic
group.
“The Gospel joy which enlivens the community
of disciples is a missionary joy.”
(Evangelii Gaudium 21)
July 16th– Thursday
7.30
Breakfast
July 17th – Friday
7.30
Breakfast
8.30
Morning Prayer
July 18– Saturday
9.00
“Mission of, with and for consecrated
people” Sr. Tereza Alves da Rocha, CSAC.
Pilgrimage to Aparecida
Concrete
testimonies
Sr.
Maria
Landsberger SAC and Br. Leandro Benetti SAC.
05.00 Departure
Morning Prayer on the bus.
10.00 Questions, comments and clarifications in the
plenum.
9.00
10.30 Interval.
10.15 Free time to visit the shrine.
11.00 Concrete testimonies - experience of
encountering consecrated people in the Union
- Christine Boussou Ovo and Irena Kolasa.
12.30 Lunch.
11.45 Questions/discussion in the plenum.
Concluding Eucharist, presided over by
Mons. Julio Akamine.
17.30 Closing Liturgy with the exchange of the
Madonnas and the missionary mandate
12.30 Lunch.
19.00 Concluding evening meal.
“The Union as a Family of different types
of families” - Mons. Julio Akamine.
“Do everything with joyfulness of spirit in God;
and God will console you abundantly”.
(OCL 2, p. 162)
15.45 Questions/discussion in the plenum.
16.15 Interval.
16.45 Ideas for ministry with young people testimonies: Francesca Zappalà and Pallottine
Youth Brazil (Vivian, Camilla and Amanda).
July 19th – Sunday
7.00
Mass - optional.
17.30 End of session.
7.30
Breakfast
17.45 Eucharist.
10.00 Departure
19.00 Evening meal.
21.00 Eucharistic Adoration.
“Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of the
joy of evangelization!”
(Evangelii Gaudium 83)
July 14th – 19th 2015
Centro Mariápolis Ginetta/São Paolo – Brazil
13.30 Departure.
12.20 End of session.
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“Proclaiming Christ means showing that to
believe in and to follow him is not only
something right and true, but also something
beautiful, capable of filling life with new splendour
and profound joy, even in the midst of difficulties”.
(Evangelii Gaudium 167)
“Serving God, following Our Lord Jesus
Christ, makes for a life of true joy”. (OOCC
II, p. 164)
Jesus,
a joy ever new,
a joy to be shared