{"id":330988,"date":"2020-05-12T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/an-international-link-up-on-the-feast-of-europe\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:25:24","slug":"an-international-link-up-on-the-feast-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/an-international-link-up-on-the-feast-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"An International Link-up on the Feast of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>&#8220;Welcome to you all gathered here in the Graz Town Hall for our meeting on Europe Day!\u201d This was the way we planned to welcome the participants on Saturday, May 9, 2020. However, Covid-19 disrupted all our plans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Therefore, toward the end of March, our regional team of <em>Together for Europe<\/em> decided to postpone the meeting for next year, and to offer a simple substitute program via Skype.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The video conference call of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>, Saturday May 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Nevertheless, the \u2018makeshift solution\u2019 resulted in an hour-long online meeting with about 100 participants from Austria and five other neighbouring Countries. The participants included <strong>Christians belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church and Communities of the Free Churches. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brief inputs from <strong>Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and Carinthia <\/strong>provided an updated and authentic insight regarding daily life during the Covid-19 crisis. All the participants were grateful that they could mutually share their experiences and thus become aware of how others are living in their respective Countries. Thus means that, now, they can pray even better for each other. \u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>diocesan Bishop<\/strong> <strong>Wilhelm Krautwaschl, <\/strong>too, took part in this online meeting. He thanked for this experience of communion that goes beyond borders, and concluded by saying \u201cIn spite of our differences and separations, through the Cross we are all united one to the other\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Plans for May 8, 2021&#8230;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Naturally, a video conference call cannot take the place of a Day Meeting. Yet, <strong>in the present circumstances, by the way this Europe Day 2020 was lived out, <em>Together<\/em> was strengthened. <\/strong>It was, indeed, a successful preparation for the Day Meeting scheduled for May 8, 2021, when we could, hopefully, truly say: &#8220;<strong><em>Gr\u00fc\u00df Gott hier im Rathaus Graz<\/em><\/strong> &#8230;!\u201d \u2013 \u201cWelcome to Graz Town Hall!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Together for Europe <\/em>Team, Austria<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Welcome to you all gathered here in the Graz Town Hall for our meeting on Europe Day!\u201d This was the way we planned to welcome the participants on Saturday, May 9, 2020. However, Covid-19 disrupted all our plans. 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