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News of the Institute and Lasallian Family
Rome, February 10, 2004
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 Vacation Mission: Every year in January, the Lasallian District of São Paulo, Brazil, promotes a kind of volunteer work called "Vacation Mission", which focuses mainly the education and evangelization of poor people from the northeast of the country, where poverty is more accentuated.
In 2004 the Lasallian mission was present in two different cities: Aquidabã-SE and Nossa Senhora da Glória-SE. It was seven days of hard work including visits, talks, celebrations and meetings with the local community (catechists, youth, parents, children, teachers, and pastoral workers).
One of the most important lessons we took from this mission is that sometimes the needs of the people are more than simply material assistance. They need to be listened to with interest, to feel that someone is concerned about their lives.
Besides this, the people from the northeast give us an extraordinary example in living the faith. Despite all the difficulties they face day after day, their hope, belief and trust in God remains strong and they go ahead with the conviction that better days will come soon.
It was a fantastic experience to get in touch with such a different reality and to see God everywhere in that place, living faith, community, service and love in a most simple way.
(ICYL@lasalle.org With the special collaboration of Renato Gil de A. Rangel)
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