Poland – FSE prayer day

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On Saturday, 24th March 2018, groups of Scouts of Europe from all over Poland celebrated a Prayer Day for the FSE.

Pilgrimages to the nearby sanctuaries, prayers and entrustment of the local groups and the whole FSE to the Our Lady, as well as games for cubs and scouts and guides, and services for fires of rangers and clans of rovers and conferences for parents. Scouts and guides from all over the Poland celebrated in this way the 2018 prayer day for the Federation of European Scouting.

    “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God”

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    Vatican_CityFind here the message of His Holiness Pope Francis to the XXXIII. World Youth Day 2018!

    “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God” (Lk 1,30)

    Dear young people,

    World Youth Day 2018 represents another step in preparation for the international WYD due to take place in Panama in January 2019.  This new stage of our pilgrimage falls in the same year that the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will meet on the theme: Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.  This is a happy coincidence.  The focus, prayer and reflection of the Church will turn to you young people, with the desire to receive and, above all, to embrace the precious gift that you are to God, to the Church and to the world… READ MORE

    International Congress of Religious Advisers

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    Around 130 Religious Advisers from about fifteen UIGSE-FSE associations gathered in Rome from 29th to 31st of January for an international congress on the topic “Young people, the Faith and Vocational Discernment”. The chosen topic coincided intentionally with the theme of the next Bishops’ synod that will take place in Rome in October 2018.

    We came from all across Europe and even America to meet in the hotel Villa Aurelia located in the wing of a huge convent on one of the Roman hills called Janiculum, with view on the majestic dome of Saint Peter’s basilica standing out behind a panorama of pine trees. The modern installations of the hotel with a high-tech equipped conference room were linked by a long corridor to the convent’s chapel, rather being a small church able to receive 150 persons.

    A young British Dominican priest with Asian roots, Father Lawrence Lew, O.P., led the participants through the congress program. Father Lew is known in scout circles for having strongly supported the development of the red branch in Scotland and England. Continue reading

    The Scouts of Europe on their Way to the Synod

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    The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life published and article about the UIGSE-FSE Congress of Religious Advisers!

    Father José Guillermo Gutiérrez Fernández, an official of the Dicastery, spoke a few days ago at the International Congress of Spiritual Assistants of the Federation of European Scouting. The meeting was attended by delegates from 16 European countries as well as representatives from Argentina and the United States… READ MORE!