Focolare Movement

Rome – Prayer Vigil: Families Light Up the Synod

Sep 30, 2015

In St. Peter’s Square on October 3 at 5:00 p.m., for the Synod on the Family which will take place from October 4-25.

manifesto-sinodo

From 5:00 p.m. to 6:00p.m., testimonies by the ecclesial movements, among whom Maria Voce of the Focolare Movement.

A moment of prayer and testimony of faith gathered around Pope Francis and the Synod Fathers, sponsored by the Italian Episcopal Conference. “I am convinced that in your associations, movements, and new communities many beautiful lights of the family are visible, and I would like them to illuminate St. Peter’s Square like a torch on the evening of the vigil with Pope Francis on October 3rd,” declared Mons. Galantino, Secretary General of the CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference), inviting representatives of associations and ecclesial movements to the big date of the prayer vigil for the opening of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (October 4th to 25th), which has as the theme, “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World.”

This initiative is a people’s response to the Holy Father’s multiple appeals for prayer for the family and for the work of the Synod Fathers. Among the testimonies expected, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., will be those of the representatives of ecclesial movements, among whom Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement, Kiko Argüello, initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way, Julián Carrón, president of Communion and Liberation, Salvatore Martinez, president of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit Movement, and Matteo Truffelli, president of the Italian Catholic Action.

Prayer Vigil Booklet General Information

___

0 Comments

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Subscribe to Newsletter

Thought of the day

Related post

Maria Voce has returned to the house of the Father

Maria Voce has returned to the house of the Father

The first President of the Focolare Movement, after the foundress Chiara Lubich, Maria Voce passed away yesterday, 20th of June 2025, at home. Margaret Karram and Jesús Morán share some memories. The funeral will be held on the 23rd of June at 3:00pm at the International Centre of the Focolare Movement in Rocca di Papa (Rome).

Thank you Emmaus!

Thank you Emmaus!

Letter from Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, on the occasion of the departure of Maria Voce – Emmaus.

What is the point of war?

What is the point of war?

At this time when the world is torn apart by brutal conflicts, we share an excerpt from the famous book written by Igino Giordani in 1953 and republished in 2003: The uselessness of war. “If you want peace, prepare peace”: the political teaching that Giordani offers us in this volume can be summarized in this aphorism. Peace is the result of a plan: a plan of fraternity between peoples, of solidarity with the weakest, of mutual respect. Thus a more just world is built, this is how war is set aside as a barbaric practice belonging to the dark phase of the history of mankind.