The Vatican Paper L'Obsservatore Romano reported that Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the President of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of new evangelisation, celebrated Mass in one of Rome's largest Malls. Bringing the Good News of Christ to Shopping Malls and other largely populated areas has become the reality of the new evangelisation. He is quoted as saying, "«Every Mall is located within the territory of the parish. These are spaces of new evangelisation that the pastors cannot ignore. Is an experience — continued monsignor Fisichella — which I did myself in Rome, on the last Sunday before Christmas, invited by the parish priest of the area in which lies a large shopping mall. I met so many people walking to the shops. And then I celebrated mass ". Moreover, today the Mall is not much different from the Agora of São Paulo. "The Apostle of the Gentiles walking down the streets of Athens was many altars erected to the gods. Also the "unknown God". Encountering the philosophers Paul announces to have come to bring you the very God who do not know. And the gleam of the malls could lead people to be able to drive out their problems. But it is not so. The men have all in the heart of God and the nostalgia go always to its research '." Another Archbishop , Nosiglia, agrees, " I think it's necessary to resume the threads of dialogue between the generations '. And even the Church must boldly walking on new paths and embark sin here. «Maybe we should really open our speakers also in shopping centers and places of entertainment, or propose feasible in educational services cooperative form at local speakers or religious congregations. " (IMAGE SOURCE: GOOGLE)
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