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Latest News in the Maracay - St. Cloud Diocesan Partnership: A delegation of 12 youth and adults from our diocese returned from a 10 day pilgrimage to our partner diocese of Maracay, Venezuela in June. Please join these individuals, their families and parishes in praying for the continued success of the partnership and solidarity following their experiences. And be sure to invite them to your parish, school or group to share about their experiences of mission in Maracay!
A bit of History on the Partnership's Travels:
The partnership between the Dioceses of St. Cloud and Maracay has a long history dating back to 1964, when 2 priests from the St. Cloud Diocese went to Maracay to live and serve. Today, this diocesan partnership has also evolved to the sending of missioners from Maracay to serve and walk in faith with the people of the Diocese of St. Cloud, as well as sending many short-term missioners through delegations to-and-from one another's dioceses. The people of the St. Cloud Diocese are also becoming more engaged in this partnership by becoming delegates to Maracay and hosting delegates from Maracay in their homes and parishes. This travel is now set-up on a 3-year cycle: we travel there one year, they travel here the next, and we postpone travel the following for a year of implementation of jointly-defined goals and projects; and then we begin the cycle again. Recent travels include: A delegation of 12 people from throughout the St. Cloud Diocese made the journey to Maracay in June of 2008. A delegation from our partner Diocese of Maracay, Venezuela visited us here in the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota in mid-October 2006. The delegation was comprised of 6 people from priests to laity, permanent deacon to journalist, teacher of children's catechism to teacher of teachers. This varied group brought MANY gifts to us! Summer of 2005 Fr. José Gregorio Bracamonte journeyed to the St. Cloud Diocese to be in mission to us. He will be living and ministering in the diocese for 5 years, and is currently serving as the Diocesan Hispanic Minister.
In July of 2005 several members of the St. Cloud Diocese traveled to Maracay for 2 weeks to experience prayer and liturgy, family life and ministry in their diocese. Although other groups had traveled to Maracay, and previous delegations had come from Maracay to our diocese, this was the first "official" full St. Cloud diocesan delegation! A delegation also traveled to Maracay in summer of 2003, and there was a delegation to St. Cloud in fall of 2004. Sister Parish specific delegations have traveled from St. Cloud to Maracay in January of 2004 & 2005 also. Contact us if you are interested in interacting with future delegations or traveling on delegations to Venezuela. For more info on the Partnership...
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Missionaries . . .
Delegations and missioners travel to-and-from our partner diocese, and build-up our bonds of solidarity 