Mumbai, India, Jun 24, 2013 / 15:03 pm
A June 23 seminar in Mumbai, India, sought to help Catholics, including families and young people, commit to living a spirit of faith and renewal as part of their role in evangelization.
Seminar organizer Fr. Hilary Fernandes, who has led efforts to train local fishermen folk groups, told CNA that the goal of the event was to help lay people "intensify their apostolic activity" so that they may more fully exercise their mission in the Church and in the world.
The seminar, entitled "Lay Leadership in the Church and Society," was held on the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, which is celebrated as Laity Sunday in the Archdiocese of Mumbai.
Cardinal Oswald Gracias extolled and acknowledged the apostolic mission of the laity in his circular letter dated June 10.