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The Leigos para o Desenvolvimento (Laypeople for Development), a DNGO linked to the Jesuits, will send seven volunteers on mission this year. The destinations of the six young women are Angola, Portugal (Caparica/Pragal) and S. Tomé and Príncipe, where they are expected to arrive soon. In an atmosphere of celebration and thanksgiving, they celebrated their Sending Mass yesterday in the Church of the Colégio São João de Brito in Lisbon.

Virginia Gabriel, Inês Rocha and Mello and Beatriz Lopes will leave for Angola (Ganda), Sara Teixeira and Sara Silva for Caparica/Pragal and Mariana Viana Baptista and Inês Sampaio for São Tomé and Prínicipe (city).

The volunteers chose as their motto a passage from the Gospel of Luke: "Seek first his kingdom, and the rest will be given to you in addition" (Lk 12:31). Fernando Ribeiro, sj, national assistant to the LD, who presided over the celebration, stressed the importance of not forgetting this phrase and praying for it, and said that "This is a text that calls for trust. Do not worry, do not worry in vain. Give yourselves to the essentials. Do not be afraid of what you will leave, do not be afraid of the reality you will encounter, do not be afraid of the future. Trust. If God calls, He will provide".

In a year marked by so many new circumstances, in which reinvention was the watchword for the Laity for Development to remain faithful to their mission, it was with joy that we witnessed the unfolding of yet another chapter in a history that began to be written more than 30 years ago.

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