Countries of Ifca Secretariat 2000-2003
—• ARGENTINE
—• BURUNDI
—• ITALY
—• MEXICO
—• SPAIN

IFCA Newsletter 2001/1

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Address of the Holy Father John Paul II to IFCA
04.12.2000

PROGRAMME
Saturday December 2nd 2000

• 15.30
  Celebration of the Word of God
  presided by H. E. Msgr. JOZEF MICHALIK
  Bishop of Przemsyl (Poland), CEBC’s Delegate for the Laity
  
• 17.00
  Welcome to the participants
  PAOLA BIGNARDI, ICA’s national President
  IFCA 1997-2000
  BEATRIZ BUZZTTI THOMSON
  Secretariat’s coodinator and ACA’s national President
  Lecture
  Globalizing solidarity in the third millennium.The manifold ways of globalization: how to choose?
  RICCARDO PETRELLA
  Councillor of the European Commission of science and technology
  Professor of globalization at the Catholic University of Lovanio
  Interventions

20.00 Buffet
21.30 Presentations of the delegations

Sunday December 3rd – First Sunday of Advent

• 8.30
  Morning prayer
  presided by H. E. Msgr. FRÉDERIC RUBWEJANGA
  Bishop of Kibungo (Rwanda)

• 9.00
  Looking at the real situations
  A/report of the answers to the questionnaire
  sent together with the itinerary of preparation
  B/interventions of the countries
• 12.00
  Eucharistic celebration (Homily)
  presided by H. E. Msgr. BERNARD BUDUDIRA
  Bishop of Bururi (Burundi)
• 15.30
  Lecture
  Catholic Action’s identity in today’s ecclesial and pastoral context 
  H. E. Msgr. BALTAZAR PORRAS CARDOZO
  Archbishop of Mérida
  President of the Bishops Conference of Venezuela
  Interventions

18.00 Mixed workshops

Monday December 4th

• 8.30
  Eucharistic celebration (Homily)
  presided by H. Em. Card. JAMES FRANCIS STAFFORD
  President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity

10.00 Report of the mixed workshops

• 11.00
  Thematic workshops
  formation
  children
  youths
  adults
  sociopolitical commitment
  promotion of CA
• 15.00
  IFCA: evaluation 97/2000 and proposals 2000/2003
  Continental workshops

17.00 Report of the continental workshops

• 18.00
  Welcome to new members
  Afer dinner Penitential vigil in preparation to the jubilee day
  presided by H. E. Msgr. JOSÉ M. CONGET ARIZALETA
  Bishop of Jaca (Spain)

Tuesday December 5th – JUBILEE DAY
Pilgrims with Peter on the roads of reconciliation, dialogue, peace

• 8.45
  Departure for St Peter’s Basilica
  Eucharistic celebration (Homily – H.E. Msgr. Carlos Talavera RAMÍREZ)
  presided by H. Em. Card. ROGER ETCHEGARAY
  President of the Central Committee of the Great Jubilee of 2000
• 15.00
  St John Lateran
  H. E. Msgr. MATTHIAS SSEKAMANYA
  Bishop of Lugazi (Uganda)
• 17.00
  St Mary Major
  H. E. Msgr. PIOTR JARECKI
  Auxiliar Bishop of Warsaw (Poland)

21.30 International soiréé

Wensday December 6th

• 8.30
  Morning prayer
  presided by H. E. Msgr. JORGE CARRION PAVLICH
  Bishop of Puno (Peru)
• 9.00
  The new Secretariat
  Interventions upon priorities for the years 2000/2003
  Final communication
• 11.00
  Departure for St Paul-outside-the walls
  Eucharistic celebration closing the Assembly (Homily)
  presided by H. E. Msgr. AGOSTINO SUPERBO
  IFCA’s Ecclesiastic Assistant
• 13.30
  Dinner
  Departures