Movimento dei Focolari
Os santos também usam calças de ganga

Os santos também usam calças de ganga

Misteriosa, fugidia, fascinante: eis como muitos veem a santidade. Ainda mais para quem – como o autor destas páginas – se interroga sobre a existência de Deus, sem encontrar respostas convincentes. Chiara Luce Badano era a melhor amiga da sua irmã: daqui a ideia de a descrever ao vivo, mas à margem, como «um qualquer centurião no Calvário, um maqueiro em Waterloo, o porteiro das Twin Towers». O autor observa, recorda, escuta, e conta-nos a nós, um acontecimento extraordinário que continua a envolver – e a desconcertar… – muitos: uma história de santidade construída dia após dia. Franz Coriasco é autor radiotelevisivo, musical e teatral. Na qualidade de crítico musical, colabora no semanário “Famiglia Cristiana”, no quinzenário “Città Nuova” e no mensário “Dimensioni Nuove”. Também foi autor e coordenador artístico de grandes eventos para a RAI Uno e conselheiro artístico da syndication Radio InBlu. (altro…)

Os santos também usam calças de ganga

Ecclesial Movements and Communities

Author: Brendan Leahy

ISBN 978-1-56548-396-5

Publisher : New City Press (NY)


Product Description

People on the lookout for the trends in the Catholic Church will be very happy to discover Brendan Leahy’s Ecclesial Movements and Communities. The birth and development of the ecclesial movements has been a topic of much discussion over the past 50 years. Leahy presents the movements as examples of the Church’s charismatic dimension, a principle which Pope John Paul II described as ‘co-essential’ with the hierarchical-institutional dimension. His overview of their rise and development captures the unique qualities of Charismatic Renewal, Communion and Liberation, Cursillo, Focolare, L’Arche, Legion of Mary, the Neocatechumenal Way, Regnum Christi, Sant’Egidio, and others.

Leahy offers an insightful overview of the rise and spread of the movements and describes several ways of seeing what it is that makes them ‘co-essential’ in the Church. Capturing the ecclesial maturity that exists in many of the movements today, he addresses many specific questions, like:

• how the movements express and/or renew charisms

• how the movements fit in the context of Apostolic Succession (including the role of priests)

• movements and the parish

• canonical challenges

The Holy Spirit is sort of the Harry Houdini of divinity, forever busting loose in seemingly impossible ways. In the Catholic Church, the “new movements” are the most remarkable recent example – an unplanned and dynamic form of life that’s erupted in an age when secularization, scandal, and the weight of history is often a recipe for decline. Fr. Brendan Leahy provides a concise yet theologically profound reading of this great escape act by the Spirit, one that’s especially commendable for being neither cynical nor overly romantic.

John L. Allen Jr.

Senior Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and

author of The Future Church (Doubleday, 2009)

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Os santos também usam calças de ganga

Rays

Product Description

Each of us has a ray that burst forth from the Father’s heart when he spoke our name with the word Love. If we follow this ray, which is his will for us, what he lovingly desired, and continues in each moment to desire for us, we will become what we are in the mind of God from all eternity.

It’s a matter of corresponding to his will, adhering to it, moment by moment, until the day when it will literally lead us back to the sun, to the Father…. Chiara notes how the rays draw nearer and nearer to each other until they become one in the sun. As we do the will of God, we will become closer and closer to each other, until we are all one in the sun, in God.

Author: Chiara Lubich

ISBN
978-1-56548-382-8
Available from New City (NY)

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