Next Friday, July 21st, approximately 300 children, teenagers, and advisors from across the state will gather at the Sanctuary of Health and Peace in Belo Horizonte for the opening of the 7th State Congress of IAM \u2013 Missionary Childhood and Adolescence. The meeting will continue until Sunday with a full program.<\/p>\n
The opening Mass will be on Friday at 7 pm, presided over by Dom Nivaldo dos Santos, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte and representative of the IAM (Infant Missionary Association). The ceremony will be broadcast live on the Padre Eust\u00e1quio Channel on YouTube.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, activities begin early in the morning at the Padre Eust\u00e1quio Theater auditorium, attached to the church in the northwest region of Belo Horizonte. With the theme: The Joy of Communion in Mission, participants aged 8 to 15 will experience lectures, workshops, cultural presentations, moments of prayer, and sharing experiences. At 6 PM, in the church square, there will be a meditation on the Holy Rosary, done in a unique way, with the children themselves assembling a giant rosary while praying.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, the children will gather at Father Eust\u00e1quio Church for the closing of the Congress and Holy Mass at 11:30 am, which will also be broadcast live.<\/p>\n
The welcoming and support for the Congress will be provided by the State Coordinator for Missionary Childhood and Adolescence in Minas Gerais, Sandra Bonine, by the Rector of the Archdiocesan Sanctuary of Health and Peace, Father Vin\u00edcius Maciel, SS.CC., and by the Archdiocesan Coordinator Margarete Juli\u00e3o. In addition, six other advisors from the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, who organized the program and structure of the Congress, will be available to the press during the event.<\/p>\n
Missionary Childhood and Adolescence To fulfill the missionaries' request, the bishop called upon the children of France to help other children. Thus, they pledged to pray a Hail Mary every day for the children of China and to help them with a coin each month, an expression of Christian charity and universal solidarity.<\/p>\n In 1922, Pope Pius XI declared the Society of the Holy Childhood as "Pontifical," approving and assuming its organization and witness as an evangelizing work at the service of the Church throughout the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Na pr\u00f3xima sexta-feira, dia 21 de julho, cerca de 300 crian\u00e7as, adolescentes e assessores vindos de todo o estado se reunir\u00e3o no Santu\u00e1rio da Sa\u00fade e da Paz, em Belo Horizonte para a abertura do 7\u00ba Congresso Estadual da IAM \u2013 a Inf\u00e2ncia e Adolesc\u00eancia Mission\u00e1ria. O encontro vai at\u00e9 domingo com uma vasta programa\u00e7\u00e3o. A missa de abertura ser\u00e1 na sexta, \u00e0s 19h, presidida por Dom Nivaldo dos Santos, bispo auxiliar da Arquidiocese de Belo Horizonte e referencial da IAM. A cerim\u00f4nia ser\u00e1 transmitida, ao vivo, pelo Canal Padre Eust\u00e1quio, no YouTube. J\u00e1 no s\u00e1bado, as atividades come\u00e7am logo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nThe Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (IAM) was founded on May 19, 1843, when a bishop in France was moved by the reality described by the missionaries who evangelized in China, with whom he had a close connection since adolescence.<\/p>\n