The Archdiocese of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) invites the faithful to participate in the great family event Family Fest Next Sunday, July 20, from 9:00 am (local time).
The event will be “a day open to the public, dedicated to the enjoyment of the whole family, in an atmosphere of faith, of unity and joy,” said Father Kennedy Rodríguez, general director of Multimedia Life of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, at a press conference held on July 1 at the local archbishop’s.
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He Family Fest He celebrates the 15 years of the Integral Youth and Family Training Center (CEFIJUFA), founded on July 25, 2010 by Mons. Ramón Benito Ángeles Fernández, then auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo.
The family center was founded, recalled Fr. Rodríguez, “with the purpose of being a meeting place, of integral training with various groups and movements that evangelize families, of spiritual growth for children, youth and adults.”
The event includes various draws, talks, food sale, bazaar, spaces for worship and reflection, as well as artistic presentations of special guests such as Enrique Félix, myster sincere, María Marcelino, Ezequiel El Prophet, Chocolates of the Lord, among others.
For being Sunday, the Mass will be chaired by Mons. José Am Amite Durán Tineo, Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, at 11:30 am
“We invite everyone to go and spend this fabulous day, with the whole family, at the Youth and Family Integral Training Center, very close to all of us, on Ecological Avenue with Samaná. They go and participate with children, adolescents, young people, adults and older adults, to spend a moment of joy, peace and share,” said Fr. Rodríguez
The cost of adult tickets is 300 Dominican pesos (about 5 dollars), while the cost for children is 150, which can access the event and a raffle.
More information on the phone +1 829-257-5070.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.