{"id":290570,"date":"2002-10-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-mystery-of-jesus-crucified-and-forsaken-key-to-unity-among-the-churches\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:07","slug":"the-mystery-of-jesus-crucified-and-forsaken-key-to-unity-among-the-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-mystery-of-jesus-crucified-and-forsaken-key-to-unity-among-the-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of Jesus crucified and forsaken key to unity among the Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mystery of Jesus crucified and forsaken key to unity among the Churches<\/p>\n

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Ecumenism \u2013 Switzerland<\/p>\n

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\u00a028\/10\/2002<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"\u201cThe spirit that animates the Focolare Movement is, in a certain sense, the same spirit that animates our Council which was created for the purpose of forming a fraternity of Churches.\u201d<\/i> This, according to Lutheran pastor Konrad Raiser, Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), explains why Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich was invited to address the Plenary Assembly of the members of the Council. \u201cChiara Lubich and her collaborators,\u201d he continued, \u201care committed to finding ways to translate the spirituality of unity into new forms of harmonious living that connect us together particularly in this moment when the Council is searching for new ways to express itself.\u201d<\/span> The meeting took place in the auditorium of the modern Council building in Geneva that houses this 50-year-old organisation, the largest of its kind, bringing together persons of 342 Churches in 157 countries. Chiara Lubich had been asked to speak from the heart of her charism about the \u201ckey\u201d to unity: Jesus crucified and forsaken. Her words helped the audience penetrate the mystery of love of a God who suffers the abandonment on the part of the Father in order to unite humanity to God and human beings with one another. Jesus forsaken, who assumes all the countenances of suffering and the pain of divisions so as to \u201cgive sight to the blind, hope to the desperate, victory to the fallen, unity to those who are separated.\u201d Chiara explains that \u201cin Jesus forsaken one finds the light to recompose the full visible communion of the one Church of Christ.\u201d \u201cWe can see him,\u201d she continues, \u201cas \u2018the ecumenical crucified one.\u2019\u201d Dr. Raiser commented immediately after Chiara\u2019s address, \u201cI sensed in her words the echo back to the intuition that was at the basis of the search for unity and that has been its program since 1925: \u2018the closer we get to the cross of Christ the closer we get to one another. Beneath the cross we can reach out our arms towards the other.\u2019\u201d Catholic Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, vice president of the Swiss bishops conference, gave a positive interpretation of the crisis being felt in the ecumenical movement. \u201cWe can use the word crisis in the sense that it\u2019s time now to find new pathways. Only if we recognise Jesus forsaken in this lacerated body of Christ and we head right in to this suffering we can find new ways to reach unity.\u201d Vatican Radio News Service <\/small> \u201cThe spirit that animates the Focolare Movement is, in a certain sense, the same spirit that animates our Council which was created for the purpose of forming a fraternity of Churches.\u201d<\/i> This, according to Lutheran pastor Konrad Raiser, Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), explains why Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich was invited to address the Plenary Assembly of the members of the Council. \u201cChiara Lubich and her collaborators,\u201d he continued, \u201care committed to finding ways to translate the spirituality of unity into new forms of harmonious living that connect us together particularly in this moment when the Council is searching for new ways to express itself.\u201d<\/span> The meeting took place in the auditorium of the modern Council building in Geneva that houses this 50-year-old organisation, the largest of its kind, bringing together persons of 342 Churches in 157 countries. Chiara Lubich had been asked to speak from the heart of her charism about the \u201ckey\u201d to unity: Jesus crucified and forsaken. Her words helped the audience penetrate the mystery of love of a God who suffers the abandonment on the part of the Father in order to unite humanity to God and human beings with one another. Jesus forsaken, who assumes all the countenances of suffering and the pain of divisions so as to \u201cgive sight to the blind, hope to the desperate, victory to the fallen, unity to those who are separated.\u201d Chiara explains that \u201cin Jesus forsaken one finds the light to recompose the full visible communion of the one Church of Christ.\u201d \u201cWe can see him,\u201d she continues, \u201cas \u2018the ecumenical crucified one.\u2019\u201d Dr. Raiser commented immediately after Chiara\u2019s address, \u201cI sensed in her words the echo back to the intuition that was at the basis of the search for unity and that has been its program since 1925: \u2018the closer we get to the cross of Christ the closer we get to one another. Beneath the cross we can reach out our arms towards the other.\u2019\u201d Catholic Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, vice president of the Swiss bishops conference, gave a positive interpretation of the crisis being felt in the ecumenical movement. \u201cWe can use the word crisis in the sense that it\u2019s time now to find new pathways. Only if we recognise Jesus forsaken in this lacerated body of Christ and we head right in to this suffering we can find new ways to reach unity.\u201d Vatican Radio News Service <\/small> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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