Fall River to host second part of 1st Global Holy Spirit Forum
Ponta Delgada
Secretaria Regional dos Assuntos Parlamentares e Comunidades
The city of Fall River, in the state of Massachusetts, United States of America, will host the second part of the 1st Global Holy Spirit Forum, with two sessions scheduled for August 25 and 26.
After Ponta Delgada was the starting point for the Global Holy Spirit Forum, during the city's Great Feasts of the Holy Spirit held last July, the initiative promoted by the Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Affairs and Communities, through the Regional Directorate for the Communities, returns with a group of experts on the cult of the Holy Spirit. They will share their knowledge about its organisation and celebrations in Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mainland Portugal and the Azores.
The forum sessions aim to reinforce and enhance the religious, cultural, social, and economic dimensions, acknowledging and highlighting the differences and similarities of the multiple transatlantic manifestations of what is considered the common identity mark of all Azoreans.
This will be followed by the first session of the Forum, with presentations by Pedro Furtado, coordinator of the Great Feast of the Holy Spirit of Ponta Delgada, Márcia Sousa da Ponte, president of the Great Feast of the Holy Ghost of New England, and Roseli Pereira, coordinator of the Great Feast of the Holy Spirit Cycle of Santa Catarina.
The second session, scheduled for August 26, also at 10 a.m., will be dedicated to the Feasts of the Holy Spirit in Portugal, Brazil, the United States, and Canada, with presentations by Hélder Fonseca Mendes, Lélia Nunes, Tony Goulart, and Ilda Januário, respectively.
The Global Holy Spirit Forum intends to follow the three largest fests representing this religious manifestation in the Azores, North America and South America, respectively: the Great Feast of the Holy Spirit of Ponta Delgada, the Great Feast of the Holy Ghost of New England (USA), and the Great Feast of the Holy Spirit Cycle of Santa Catarina (Brazil).
This initiative continues the work of the Azorean Government to strengthen and enhance the ties that unite the Region with its diaspora, in this case through one of the most representative expressions of Azorean identity.
