Single diocesan assembly for the two sister dioceses of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino and Foligno in the sign of the union in person of the bishop Monsignor Domenico Sorrentino. “Whatever he tells you, do. Communion, participation and mission for a ‘Happy Home’. Modality of co-responsibility in the Church” is the theme on which the two-day programmatic Assembly will focus, which will be held on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 June in the hall of the church of San Paolo Apostolo in Foligno in via del Roccolo, to which the communities are invited to participate.
As scheduled, on Friday 7 June at 3 pm there will be a welcome and prayer presided over by Don Marco Armillei, episcopal vicar for the Pastoral Care of the diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino. At 3.30 pm “Introduction to the Biblical icon: the House of Cana” with Don Giovanni Zampa, episcopal vicar for the pastoral care of the diocese of Foligno. This will be followed at 3.45pm by the introduction to the theme and the work: methods of co-responsibility in the Church. How to participate in the evangelical promotion of a “Happy Home”. Speaker Don Paolo Asolan, president of the Pontifical Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis of the Pontifical Lateran University and professor of fundamental pastoral theology. At 4.30 pm dialogue with the speaker. After a short break, group work will follow on the proposal developed by the diocesan pastoral councils (group registration and coordination of facilitators). At 6.30 pm final prayer in individual groups.
Saturday 8 June at 9am welcome and prayer; this will be followed by a wise introduction to group work (by the synod commissions); at 9.45 more group work for the wisdom assessment of the pastoral year 2023-2024. After the break at 11am, a summary presentation of the two group works will follow. Finally at 11.30 communications and conclusions from the bishop.
And, in view of the appointment with the interdiocesan assembly, Bishop Domenico Sorrentino wanted to intervene through a video message to announce the appointment, launching a request to priests, religious and deacons: “We find ourselves in a historical moment of great difficulty, culture has changed and changes very quickly, no longer over decades. We must therefore place ourselves before the Lord with all our priestly and diaconal responsibility, remember that day in which we were ordained for the people of God and we cannot remain lazy in the face of this reality: in addition to ordinary work, today we are asked by Sir, a burst of enthusiasm, pastoral imagination and programmatic originality because things are really changing. We risk being a people with pastors who remain behind in time, so I would like to say not to physically miss this assembly: by being together we feel like a community, we feel like God’s family. This year the pastoral program – concludes the bishop , inviting priests and deacons to also have their closest collaborators participate in the assembly – you define it. I will make a small discernment, but the program will be made by you.” An appeal, from Monsignor Sorrentino, obviously also addressed to all the rest of the people of God.
