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Incontro Romano began with an international congress that took place in Rome in 1991 tackling the theme: ¨Woman, work, and family in the world¨. With the attendance of over a hundred students and professionals from across Europe, an inspirational idea from years before was brought to life.
The Servant of God Mons. Alvaro del Portillo – the first successor of St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei – in 1990, encouraged a group of professionals in the service industry to carry out an initiative that could amplify the good influence these professions can have on people and institutions. As such, the initiative was directly in line with what St. Josemaría had always taught from the very beginning of his preaching: |
Incontro Romano is an international congress for students that aims to study themes that affect our society today and at the same time to discover the fundamental role women play particularly in person-directed professions.
¨It is necessary … that the person who offers this service must be trained for the job, which means she must be professionally prepared. I said 'service' — although the word is not popular these days — because any job that is well done is a wonderful service to society, and this is as true of domestic work as it is of the work of a professor or a judge. The only work that is not a service is that of a person who works for his own self-interest¨(Conversations with Mons. Escrivá de Balaguer, n. 109).