{"id":292040,"date":"2011-02-14T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/visit-to-the-holy-land\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:41:19","slug":"visit-to-the-holy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/visit-to-the-holy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the Holy Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a gathering of some representatives of the ecclesial movements and new communitie<\/strong>s present in Jerusalem. Here where the Universal Story had a new beginning, and also the small \u201csacred story\u201d of each group concerning its place and its individual way.<\/p>\n

Some hundred people were present in a hall of the Curia in the Custody of the Holy Land, just behind the New Gate.<\/p>\n

Chemin Neuf, the Community of the Beatitudes and the Emmanuel Community of France; Can\u00e7ao nova, the Sons of Mary, the Obra de Maria and Shalom Communityfrom Brazil; Regnum Christi from Mexico; John XXIII Association, Communion and Liberation and the Focolare from Italy (with international dimensions) told of their adventure with simplicity, each of them very original and yet quite similar to one another. Almost all of them shared common approaches: providing hospitality; meeting pilgrims; working to making the treasures of the Holy Land known (also at an ecumenical and interreligious level), and promoting tourism to the holy sites. Numerous movements and communities specialize in the field of evangelization through the media. There were also many examples of communities who worked together.<\/p>\n

Like everything in Christianity, this meeting in Jerusalem\u00a0 was not noteworthy for its numerical dimensions, but but for its qualitative dimensions. It was the quality of relationships which was the highlight. \u201cPerhaps one task of the movements and new communities is to bring to the Catholic Church and more generally to all of Christianity, the only primacy found in the Gospel, the primacy of love,\u201d explained a young woman from the Chemin Neuf Community.<\/p>\n

Some movements have been present on location in the Holy Land for years, others for just a few months. The joy and fellowship was what made everyone take note at this meeting that was begun by Maria Voce with the simple sharing of her activities.<\/p>\n

In the course of a frank dialogue with those present, Maria Voce explained the meaning of the dialogue between movements and new communities: \u201cI find myself before people and groups who desire to witness that mutual love which constructs the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

In particular, responding to a question from a representative from Communion and Liberation, she said: \u201cCertainly, following the Vigil of Pentecost 1998,\u201d in Saint Peter\u2019s Square, in answer to the call of John Paul II, \u201cwe felt linked, united to the Pope\u2019s appeal as he invoked the Holy Spirit. From that time on, Chiara Lubich noticed in the Pope a desire that the movements be in communion among themselves.\u201d To favor \u201cthat charismatic, marian presence which is \u201ccoessential\u201d to the petrine dimension.\u201d And so, since then,\u00a0 \u201cwherever you find the Focolare Movement, you meet this desire for unity between movements and new communities.\u201d Each with its own charism, \u201cwhich complements the charism of the others. Communion isn\u2019t uniformity. . .\u00a0 If (each of) our charisms is the most beautiful one, then, in the end, the Church is more beautiful, because the charisms are gifts that are to be submitted to reciprocity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you live ecumenical and interreligious dialogue in the Holy Land?\u201d asked one young Brazilian woman. \u201cDialogue is a lifestyle,\u201d Maria Voce responded, \u201cmore than a thing that you \u201cdo\u201d. It means placing yourself before another person out of love.\u201d Loving without interests, always, being the first, both with other Christians and with the faithful of other religions. \u201cFor us, dialogue has always meant a dialogue between people, not between ideologies or religions. . . Because there is love in every person on earth.\u201d Besides, \u201cUnity comes from God, who only asks people to love each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Michele Zanzucchi<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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