Friday, March 17, 2017
On March 7-14 the Comboni Missionaries working in evangelization and mission promotion in Europe (Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Germany and Austria) met at the Comboni house in Maia, northern Portugal. The 30 participants, including a representative from each branch of the Comboni Family (sisters, lay people, secular missionaries) reflected on the theme “The Comboni Mission in Europe,” starting from the 2015 Chapter Acts, #46.1: “It is no longer sufficient to think of the European continent as a territory where we should only do mission and vocation promotion,” but, the Chapter states by quoting the Apostolic Exhortation The Joy of the Gospel of pope Francis (#20), even in Europe we are called to have “the courage to reach out to all peripheries that need the light of the Gospel.”