Religion

The Fomequeños with spiritual roots

In Fómeque is the rural parish of the archdiocese of Bogotá; "Immaculate Conception", has thirty two lanes, 13,000 inhabitants, Catholics, prayers and a friendly and quiet atmosphere that characterizes this municipality located north-east of Cundinamarca ...

At the pastoral level, the parish for the Fomequeños is a sacred, reliable and meeting place. The inhabitants of the villages are working people, who live off agriculture and swine. Also at the agricultural level they sell products to Bogotá and Villavicencio, such as tomatoes, cucumbers and beans, among others.

Music and the practice of sports such as basketball is also part of their everyday life, especially among the young people of the town.

Eight parish groups work and accompany Father Alexander Báez Mora, who was appointed 10 months ago in this position. He is 39 years old, he is a native of the municipality of Güicán- Boyacá, ordained by Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, 5 years ago. He came to be at the head of the parish María Madre de la Iglesia, in Pasquilla, Ciudad Bolívar where he stayed for 3 years.

Latin American Model of Rural Parish

Between 1938 and 1968, the municipality of Fómeque was chosen as a Latin American model of rural parish. At that time he was in charge of the parish Monsignor Agustín Gutiérrez, who promoted for more than twenty years, a self-sustainable program at the level of the villages, set up an integral agricultural system, also built a school, a hospital and an institute , with educational and management models of their own and of management by the Church.

The same as a committed, hardworking and novel pastoral for the inhabitants of Fómeque, who still remember those times, many with nostalgia and others convinced to go ahead and work in the same way under their commitment in the Faith, the progress and the push that the has always characterized.

A daily Eucharist is celebrated from Monday to Friday and funeral services, attention in the office and visits to 7 lanes each week. On Sunday 4 Eucharist in the parish and two on the sidewalks. Father Alexander at this moment assumes this challenge alone, this herding, does not have a parochial vicar to help him in his mission.