A motivation for the community, for the people, and for the apostolic groups, to be able to revitalize the sense of mission of our church.
Making the church present in the streets of the neighborhood and integrating each of the brothers who, due to their advanced age, illness or distance from the parish community, cannot attend the church, is part of the initiative developed by the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption of Panama Viejo, with missionary masses held in the homes of the different sectors of the community.
Father Yury Cortez, a Redemptorist Missionary, points out that one of the characteristics that they want to implement to motivate the parishioners for a possible mission next year is to emphasize the motto that they have as a missionary, evangelizing, supportive and joyful parish, always motivated by the Redemptorist spirit.
“With this theme of synodality we want to get closer to each one of our brothers, especially those who are most abandoned, the elderly, the sick and those who cannot get to the church. This motivates the community, the people, the apostolic groups, to be able to revitalize this feeling of mission, thinking that in the future a Eucharist can be held every month, in each sector of the neighborhood,” said the parish priest.
We should go out more
For Father Yury, going in search of the Lord is always necessary, but the human being has remained centralized in his thinking. Elements such as social networks give everything, and that is good, according to the priest, but sometimes the feeling is important, feeling close to the people, because of course we can watch the mass through the screens, but there is no closeness, there is no peace or fraternity.
“The missionaries through the Eucharist wished to unite Panama Viejo, unite the parish community and make us feel closer; to make it clear that we are not a church with four walls, but that we are willing to see each other, to meet each other, and to leave our comfort zone, not to remain lazy in our thinking, in our faith,” he said.
The priest made a cordial invitation to all the parishes to rekindle together that missionary spirit and that spirit of synodality, to go and help each other to carry out the mission under that theme: Go and announce what the Lord has done, “because we cannot remain silent about what God has given us and has done in each of our realities,” he pointed out.
(Written by Karla Díaz in panoramacatolico.com)
