Published the new POSI bulletin
Curiosity, awe and gratitude. These are the essential elements with which to approach reading the new bulletin of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) according to its secretary general, Sister Roberta Tremarelli.
In the editorial that opens issue 17 of the newly published bulletin, Sister Roberta thanks the missionary children and adolescents together with their animators because they try their best every day to make the goodness and beauty of God's Kingdom savored down here by scattering seeds of hospitality, love and mercy and invites us to cultivate this attentive gaze to grasp the preciousness of the diversity of an institution like this one operating on all continents and announcing the newness of the missionary "game."
The bulletin, which has just come out, consists of a series of very in-depth articles on POSI's activities in different countries, while a second part gives voice to the experiences of children, adolescents and missionary animators scattered around the world.
Father Tolos Marius SJJ, director Manresa Center CKUJ in Romania speaking at the European Missionary Childhood Conference last April, opens the issue. "Mission means cooperation" is the theme of the report which is followed by the missionary activities section.
It starts with Burundi and the inaugural celebration of the 50-year jubilee of POSI in the country to the experience of the Indonesia Teens School of mission – a mission school for adolescents. From Tanzania, in the Archdiocese of Mwanza, where children are often victims of poor literacy comes, instead, the proposal for an educational and training seminar that allows them to recognize forms of violence of which they are often victims. Interesting and significant is the testimony of Uzbekistan where there are few Catholics and oratory activities are the only ones that allow them to speak to the little ones about Jesus.
In Myanmar, plagued by the ongoing conflict, children are suffering difficult conditions, and even in this situation, hope comes, for example, from experiencing a day dedicated to Missionary Childhood. Complex situation also for children in Burkina Faso, in the Diocese of Nounam, where many are experiencing the "tear" of leaving their land, their habits, living as displaced people. The biblical formation camps for children are precisely aimed at giving them a solid Christian formation to deal from a young age with the many complexities of the reality they experience. Among them, some have also experienced forms of harassment by armed men who snatched their school supplies, depriving them of the minimum they had and then destroyed them before their eyes.
POSI in these places has supplied school kits to those little ones giving them back hope that a different world is possible. From Kenya, in the Archdiocese of Mombasa, comes the touching testimony of the subsistence food aid provided by POSI while from the huge of Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic, a roundup of the many activities that are bubbling up in the different parishes. Concluding this section is the Archdiocese of Bamako in Mali where POSI is present with so much educational offerings despite being a Muslim-majority country. Worth reading all at once are the testimonies of the little ones from Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, Philippines, Honduras, Republic of Congo, Benin, Panama, Ecuador, Romania and Mali. Closing on a high note is the proposed Sudoku (or other game - depending on the language) missionary.
