The Council is the place where young people from various countries that practice different rites, giving continuity to the spirit that animates mediterranean churches encounters.
To make visible relationships between ecclesial communities from which they have been indicated and that is destined to enlarge the populations and cultures from which they come from.
The project was born as a proposal from the Italian Church to establish a Mediterranean Youth Council, in the perspective of a possible coexistence between peoples based on brotherhood.
In Florence, The project arises and takes root; this city because Prof. La Pira’s prophetic dream of a Mediterranean as a dialogue, fraternal coexistence and peace space From Florence, a natural place of encounter and dialogue, rises the Italian Church’s suggestion of creating a Council of young people from the Mediterranean, in the perspective of a possible cohabitation between populations based on fraternity.
The project’s protagonists are young people, who represent our mediterranean ecclesial community’s future, involving them directly in an active and responsible way. It is a concrete sign that the Mediterranean Catholic Church, in its various articulations, proposes looking at the future through tomorrow’s men and women’s eyes and minds, who will proceed to consist of the various societies and the Mediterranean ecclesial communities.
The Youth Council of the Mediterranean is born in this perspective and it has a triple goal:
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Seminario Vescovile di Fiesole
VIA S. Francesco 3
50014 FIESOLE (FI)
Monday-Friday …. 9 am – 5 pm
Saturday, Sunday ……… Closed