Salzburg, March 25th, 2022 (KAP) Numerous representatives from politics and society accepted the invitation of the Catholic Women’s Movement Salzburg (kfb) to the benefit soup meal in the St. Virgil educational center on Friday. “I would like to say thank you for the service of charity that women do every day. And eating soup on fasting is an unobtrusive, humble gesture of charity,” emphasized Archbishop Franz Lackner of Salzburg at the traditional charity event. The soups were cooked by top chef Johanna Maier and students from the Obertrum state vocational school, as the archdiocese announced.
Kfb-Salzburg Chairwoman Michaela Luckmann addressed the current motto “Care for one another – together for a future together for one another” and the women’s and neighborhood initiative “AKKMA” in the Philippine capital Manila. The women would have made their world safer and more worth living in. “We can support this initiative so that women can continue to achieve their goals in the future.”
Guests in St. Virgil included the President of the State Parliament Brigitta Pallauf, Deputy Governor Heinrich Schellhorn, Deputy Mayor of Salzburg Barbara Unterkofler, Deputy Mayor Bernhard Auinger and City Councilor Anja Hagenauer. The Salzburg Caritas Director Johanes Dines and the President of Catholic Action Salzburg, Elisabeth Mayer, also accepted the invitation.
sign of synodality
Around 160 women and men are taking part in a pre-synodal meeting of the archdiocese at the St. Virgil Education Center in Salzburg until Saturday to face current challenges in the church and society. During the fasting soup meal, kfb diocesan officer Olivia Keglevic referred to the connections between synodality and the family fast day campaign. “The women contribute to the revitalization of parish life with the fasting soup meals and see themselves as part of the church.” The campaign has been successful for decades and is an important contribution to the entire world church.
The invisible, underpaid and unappreciated care work of women and girls – twelve billion hours a day worldwide – is the focus of this year’s Family Fast Day campaign. If these twelve billion hours were only paid for with the minimum wage, this sector would be the largest branch of the economy, according to the kfb. The Family Fast Day campaign supports around 70 projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The donations from the fasting soup meals in the parishes make this work possible.
The soup dinners took place again this year after two difficult years due to corona. Some kfb groups in the parishes also offer their soups in a glass for a voluntary donation as “soup to go”, as in the Tyrolean part of the archdiocese in the conference house in Wörgl on March 29th (12 p.m.). Pupils from the Polytechnic School in Wörgl cook the soup.
(Information and donation: www.teilen.at; Account for the Family Fast Day campaign: IBAN AT83 2011 1800 8086 0000)
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