Kerigma Center about God to the baptized

He Kerigma Center For the new evangelization, it offers a method that, since its foundation in 2013, has managed to bring thousands of non -believers to God and especially to baptized who lived away from their faith.

Born in response to the call of San Juan Paul II, Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, the center proposes a “re-evangelization” particularly directed to those who, even having faith, have not experienced “a living and personal encounter with Jesus Christ.”

This is explained to ACI Press its president, Carlos Macías de Lara, a “full -time evangelizer” with more than 35 years of experience in the dissemination of good news.

“We propose a series of projects through catechesis aimed at young people, adults and families,” explains Macías, a Mexican based in Italy for 25 years.

The courses are based on the announcement of the Gospel (Kerigma), through a biblical and spiritual formation. Therefore, Macías emphasizes that “the Kerigma center is not a structure or building, but an evangelization program.”

This method, precise, is introduced into the communities and parishes that request it. “We send evangelizers to impart these courses when the parish or community asks us. In addition, each course has a manual so that it is introduced and living in the community itself without the need for us to be present continuously.”

Currently, collaborators – about 40 between laity and priests – are organized to cover the requests that arrive from numerous communities in Europe, America, Australia and Asia. “Our Ukrainian collaborator, for example, is reproducing the courses in Ukraine, despite the painful situation of the war,” he says.

“In all our courses we try that people live and experience the encounter with Jesus Christ, regardless of the way or the training you have, inviting to transmit it in the family, at work and in all realities,” he adds.

The president of the center highlights with gratitude the growth they have experienced during these years, although he regrets the rejection they find especially in Europe, “where there is apparently a lot of Christian presence.”

For this reason, he insists that “the urgent thing is to evangelize, helping to grow to the brothers who are serving and working inside the church so that they can go outside, as well as those baptized who do not deepen their faith.”

The re-evangelization of the baptized

For Macías, that is the “great challenge”: the re-evangelization of the laity and the search for committed Catholics who wish to evangelize beyond their borders.

The Kerigma center advises priests to request their help, begin by teaching those who are part of the parish community, especially catechists and faithful most involved with the reality they have in the parish.

With the different courses, through which the word of God is landed in everyday life, the members of a parish are invited “in a very simple way to which the announcement goes out, to existential peripheries, as Pope Francis invites.”

Therefore, it is, according to Macías, to train the faithful so that they can then evangelize and fulfill the mission of transmitting the Gospel. These formations, according to Macías, “are like injections that strengthen the community.”

Within the framework of the Jubileo de La Esperanza, about 170 faithful will travel to Italy from July 3 to 6 to carry out its international seminar at the San Lorenzo de Brindisi School (Rome, Italy).

This year in Congress they will meditate on four chapters of Ruth’s book. “Our goal is, as the Catholic Church and Pope Francis invite us, to be pilgrims of hope as evangelizers, to help all those who live a situation of despair from the economic, social point of view, or by the wars that are in the world.”

The course will culminate with a pilgrimage to Rome to cross the Holy Gate of San Pedro, where they will participate in a mass that will celebrate the Archpriest of the Temple, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti.