Theology Days 2021

From February 1 to 4, the Faculdade de Teologia will hold, in collaboration with the Diocese of Porto, the Diocese of Vila Real and the Irmandade dos Clérigos, the Theology Days 2021 which will have as its theme: "One Body, One Baptism" (Eph 4:4) - The Diversity of Charisms and the Construction of Communion. This year, due to the pandemic situation we are experiencing, the conferences will all be online.

Inscrição

• Fathers of the Diocese of Porto
• Fathers from other dioceses
• Congregations
• Laity
• Students of the Faculdade de Teologia
• Professors of the Faculdade de Teologia

The link to attend the event will be sent to all registered participants by email closest to the date of the event

Programme

February 1st

9:30 a.m. - Opening

• Isabel Braga da Cruz | President of the Porto Regional Centre - UCP
• D. Manuel Linda | Bishop of Porto
• Ana Maria Castelo Jorge | Dean of the Faculdade de Teologia - UCP
• António Abel Canavarro – Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

De los desafíos de un mundo plural a la conciencia de la diversidad eclesial
Gonzalo Tejerina Arias | Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca

11:15 a.m.
Sinodalidad, democracia y participación activa en la comunidad eclesial
Gonzalo Tejerina Arias | Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca

2:30 p.m.
The role of ecclesial co-responsibility and pastoral co-ordination
Alfredo Leite Soares | Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

Baptism in the life of a parish community
Manuel Mendes | Diocese of Porto

February 2nd

10:00 a.m - Moderator: Dr. José Aguiar de Castro
Hospitality as a realization of the baptismal condition: neo-testamentary lessons
João Alberto Correia | Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

11:15 a.m.
Hospitality as a realization of the baptismal condition in the churches of ancient Christianity
Alexandre Freire Duarte | Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

2:30 p.m.
Une réflexion sur la taille des communautés (à l’échelle humaine)
Gilles Routhier | Université Laval

February 3rd

10:00 a.m. - Moderator: Dr. Adélio Abreu
Baptismal identity and synodality
Marcos Faria | Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

11:15 a.m.
Baptism from an ecumenical perspective
José Eduardo Borges de Pinho | Faculdade de Teologia - UCP

2:30 a.m.
Baptism and ecumenism in the metropolitan area of Porto
Mário Henrique | Diocesan Commission for Ecumenism - Diocese of Porto (coord.)

February 4th

10:00 a.m.
The sacrament of baptism: canonical and pastoral questions
D. Armando Domingues | Auxiliary Bishop - Diocese of Porto
Emanuel Brandão | Diocesan Pastoral Council - Diocese of Porto
Joaquim Santos | Presbyteral Council - Diocese of Porto

Conclusion:
D. António Augusto Azevedo | Bishop of Vila Real
D. Manuel Linda | Bishop of Porto

"The Church as communion is a project, a continuous call to live God's gifts in the experience of human and Christian brotherhood. Communion will be an empty word if it is not accompanied by visible forms through which it manifests itself, articulates itself and develops, if it is not translated into mediations which are indispensable for the progressive transformation of mentalities and the assumption of effective commitments. Ecclesial communion cannot be realized and developed without broad communication and participation in the forms of living the faith, without living structures of co-responsibility, without the recognition and promotion of the synodal dimension" [Borges de Pinho, J. E., “Critérios de comunhão e construção da comunidade”, Didaskalia 33 (2003) 217].