The Pope relayed that expectation in a message to the participants in the 1st Missionary Meeting of Cuba, held here May 24-28.
The text was read by the apostolic nuncio in Cuba, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, in the course of the first meeting of the event.
The conference attracted 141 delegate representatives from the 11 Cuban dioceses, including 110 lay missionaries, in addition to 23 seminarians, according to Father Raúl Rodríguez Dago, national director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies in the country. The Vatican agency Fides reported his comments.
This Missionary Meeting was one of the main activities of the Missionary Year proclaimed by the Church in Cuba.
Resolutions reached by the participants included the decision to endorse the commitment taken by the National Meeting of the Catholic Church in Cuba in 1986. That commitment included making the mission central to pastoral work.
Among those attending the Missionary Meeting was Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana.
