The CSP is present in Mexico City through two different pastoral projects: on the one hand, in the south of the city we coordinate the Community Center for Child Development “San José”, in which 122 children under 6 years of age receive comprehensive attention every day in the crucial stage of early childhood. On the other hand, in the west of the great city we support pastoral and social work in a popular neighborhood of working population.
After having worked for five years as an associate pastor in this second pastoral area of the archdiocese, Pablo Cirujeda was recently appointed rector of the Rectory of Our Lady of the Rosary. As head of this parish, he will serve a population of about six thousand people, mostly from humble and low-income families. In addition to the coordination of the different pastoral programs (children's catechesis, pastoral care of the sick, celebration of the sacraments, etc.) the parish is currently also opening spaces for community development, such as craft workshops for children and young people, physical activation for older adults, and a Therapeutic listening center. At the same time, Pablo is establishing a collaboration with other institutions and social agents in the area to start a job training program for young people.
This new pastoral challenge adds to the efforts of the CSP in Mexico, so that its commitments address an integral evangelization of the person, understanding the pastoral as a path that encompasses all personal, family, and social dimensions of the human being.
