I do everything for the sake of the Gospel! This was the slogan of a Bible Mission recently held in the beautiful city of Piatra Neamt in northeastern Romania.
The Mission was a joint initiative on the part of the FSPs of Bucharest, the SSP community of Vicenza, Italy, young people from different parts of Romania and Italy, and the pastor of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish in Piatra Neamt. The objective of the Mission was to give everyone?children, teens and adults?the chance to meet Jesus through the Apostle Paul, the tireless herald of the Gospel.
The opening Eucharistic Celebration featured a procession of young people carrying an icon of the Apostle and at the end of the Liturgy every family received a copy of the Letters of St. Paul in Romanian. The Mission was characterized by light and joy, prayer and deeper reflection on the Bible, study sessions and fraternal gatherings, adventure and work, ecumenical dialogue and an exchange of ideas, vocational witness and commitment.
Launched during the Pauline Year, this ?initiative without borders? has continued because its young collaborators, accompanied by the FSPs and Fr. Domenico Soliman, ssp, meet throughout the year on both ?digital highways? and city streets to give the Apostle of the Gentiles a voice and to also learn from him how to live and proclaim the Gospel to people today.