Our sisters of Spain recently held their third Cultural-Formation Meeting for their book center collaborators. These meetings, which began in 2008, have been held on both the local and national levels so as to improve our book center mission.
The encounters have little by little met important goals such providing our collaborators with the opportunity to get to know one another and exchange experiences, strengthen their group spirit and their identity as Pauline cooperators, etc. This year’s meeting was also an occasion to reflect more deeply on the socio-cultural and religious situations that make an impact on our book center mission and they also provided an opportunity to consolidate a unitary and progressive management of our centers.
The talks of guest speaker Professor Juan Martin Velasco focused on the religious situation of Europe and Spain, the crisis of God in society and in the Church, what it means to be a Christian in a pluri-cultural and pluri-religious environment and evangelization today.
The program also included two very helpful workshops: Book Centers in Crisis and The Organization of the Pauline Book Centers. Our collaborators engaged in a very fruitful exchange of ideas concerning the products of our publishing house, advertising and new forms of online presence. All the participants were very appreciative of the paths sketched out and the lines of action that emerged. The meeting concluded with a renewed desire on the part of everyone, sisters and lay personnel alike, to continue this formation itinerary.