Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Maryknoll Mission Center is 50 years old. Best known as the CMM, the center was created thanks to the missionary work of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, who in 1965 founded the Padres de Maryknoll Institute of Languages, to prepare missionaries to speak Spanish, Quechua and Aymara language. In the wake of the renewal promoted by the Vatican II Council and the Second Conference of Latin American Bishops in Puebla, the Institute became the Maryknoll Mission Center, missionary training center for Latin America. Over the years about 13,000 missionary priests, religious, Catholics and other religions, and even some lay missionaries have been formed. The peculiarity of the CMM is that language teaching is accompanied by an introduction to the socio-cultural reality of Bolivia and other Latin American countries as well as the principles of leadership.
The anniversary of the CMM was celebrated with the presence of Fr. Raymundo Finch, Superior General of the Society for Foreign Missions of Maryknoll (MM), Father José Fedora, MM Regional Superior who joined Fr. Dai Kim M.M., currently Director of the CMM.
To celebrate the anniversary, as well as the liturgical celebrations, a “Laboratory of Integral Ecology” was opened in these days. The event was attended by about 75 people during which there was a moment of reflection on the care of the common home based on the encyclical of Pope Francis’ Laudato Sì. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 15/10/2015)
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Publish date : 2015-10-15 03:00:00
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