Focolare Movement

50th Anniversary of the Parish Movement

Sep 29, 2017

Meeting at Vallo Torinese, Italy

Vallo TorineseA day-long gathering at Maria Orsola Centre, titled “A Fifty year story of passion for the Church”. Alongside the presentations of a few experiences and artistic interludes, Cardinal Joao De Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life, once bishop of Brasilia, will give a talk titled From the Peripheries of the World to the Vatican, and Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi, bishop of Aquila will talk about The Calling of the Parish Movement in the light of Juvenescit Ecclesia. Press Releases

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