NEWS

March 2024

• Meeting with Mercedes Montoya from Vida Ascendente Spain (secretary of Vie Montante Internationale) with the coordination of the Catalonia – Andorra – Balearic region to present VMI
• Meeting in Alsace of Belgian Vie Montante and Swiss MCR for the drafting of the next year's brochure common to the two movements (Theme: “Heritage”)
• National training session in Lisieux for future leaders of the Christian Movement of French Retirees (MCR)
• ZOOM meetings with movements that have reconnected with VMI:
  • Meeting with Ms. Yvette Lou Koue and Ms. Rosalie Kafando from Ivory Coast
  • Meeting with Ms. Camille Hubert from Vie Montante Canada

April 2024

• Participation of the president in the recollection of the MCR diocese of Evreux, entitled “Living the advancing age under the sign of the annunciation”
• Online webinar of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life on the theme “Pastoral Care of Human Life”

May 2024

• ZOOM meeting of the Executive Committee with Anne-Marie Maison, president of the MCR and Bernard Dabadie, vice-president and referent of the MCR for VMI
• ZOOM meeting of the Executive Committee with Marta Antunes (Portugal), coordinator for VMI European countries
• Online webinar of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life on the theme “In old age, do not abandon me”
• ZOOM meeting of the Executive Committee with the Vie Montante Canada movement
• 58th World Communications Day 2024 “Artificial intelligence and wisdom of the heart”

June 2024

• Annual meeting in Rome of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life with the moderators of international associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and new communities on the theme “The challenge of synodality for the mission”
• General Meeting of Mouvement chrétiens des retraités in Paris on June 19 and 20, 2024