Marco Carvalho
The Parish Family Day, an initiative that should have taken place last Sunday, has been postponed to January 15th. The Diocese of Macau opted for a cautious approach, after the latest outbreak of Covid-19 forced schools and educational establishments to close their doors for one entire month.
The Parish Family Day was postponed to January 15th, O Clarim was told by Veronica Pou, general secretary of the Macau Catholic Family Advisory Council Cana Center, the organization that was charged by the Diocese of Macau with the responsibility of promoting the celebrations of the Year of the Family Amoris Laetitia.
The Parish Family Day was initially scheduled for last Sunday, in Saint Joseph Secondary School 6, a teaching institution that shares its campus, in Ilha Verde, with the University of Saint Joseph.
The initiative’s programme included a basketball tournament for parents and children, recreational activities and games and other family directed activities. Coordinated by the Macau Catholic Family Advisory Council Cana Center, the event also had the support of entities such as Caritas, the Bosco Youth Service Network or Radio Voice of Mary.
Of the recreational and recreational activities on the programme, the most significant is a basketball tournament that unites parents and children in the same purpose. Despite the postponement, the line-up for the Parish Family Day must remain untouched, with the registration into the competition – aimed at children born in 2013, 2014 and 2015, accompanied by a parent –costing a total of fifty patacas per team.
The tournament organizers established a maximum limit of 20 teams for each of the three age groups in which the competition is divided, with each participant authorized to enrol in only one of the categories. Group A is reserved for children born in 2015, group B clashes are aimed at athletes born in 2014 and the name of the victors in group C will be decided between young athletes born in 2013. To enrol in the tournament, children must be accompanied by either their father or their mother. The winning competitors in each of the three age groups will be awarded photographic material worth 1500 patacas.
In addition to the basketball competition, the original Parish Family Day programme also included games, recreational activities and other family directed initiatives.
The Year of the Family Amoris Laetitia was announced by Pope Francis on December 27th, 2020, Holy Family Sunday, and runs until June 26th, 2022, when the 10th World Meeting of Families takes place.Revealed in 2016, the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia is the result of the two Synods on the family, held in 2014 and 2015. The document has nine chapters that address questions such as the word, reality, challenges and vocation of families, love and marriage, fertility, the education of younger generations or spirituality.
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