{"id":306460,"date":"2018-09-05T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/committed-to-being-us\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:02","slug":"committed-to-being-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/committed-to-being-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Committed to being us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cI remembered a phrase of my friend: \u2019The idea of God has to grow with us.\u2019<\/strong> I haven\u2019t tried to understand something about God for a long time now. I really needed to find out from others who knew more than me.\u201d Three years ago, Andrea, a university student left his homeland where he had a reference group in the parish, and moved to a big city. But here he didn\u2019t immediately find a precise reference point for his faith. In the Congress he met many. \u201cI am still searching and am discovering new aspects of this adventure, but I have certainties, strong points. One of these is surely the awareness that the road opened out before me is a community path, to be experienced with others. At times I forget this and so I need to be corrected, but inside me I know that it shall be this,\u201d Nicolas confirmed. \u201cCommitted to the \u2018We\u2019\u201d was an initiative that was held in Castel Gandolfo (31 August to 2 September)<\/strong> and promoted by the Diocesan<\/a> and Parish Movements<\/a>, branches of the Focolare Movement addressing the youths active in the local Church. These movements aim to irradiate the charism of unity<\/a> in the parishes and dioceses in which they offer their services, and to work together with other ecclesial organisations in the building of a \u201cChurch of communion,\u201d<\/strong> as aspired to in the Novo Millennio Ineunte, the Apostolic Letter John Paul II addressed to the priests and all the laity, at the end of the grand jubilee of 2000. For this purpose, it promotes and nurtures an ever deeper unity of the faithful around the parish priests and bishops cooperating in the various dioceses and promoting a new evangelisation in the parishes, according to a community style. \"\"\u201cWe chose this title \u2013 the organisers pointed out \u2013 to contribute in fulfilling what Pope Francis often invites us to do: pass from the \u2019I\u2019 to the \u2019we,\u2019<\/strong> through a community discernment which helps us to grow and make common decisions. During the days they spent together, the participants discussed their own faith, but above all the mission they feel called to, that of spreading the \u2019good news\u2019 of the Gospel. The life experience based on the spirituality of Chiara Lubich<\/a> acted as a background, since every charism of God is for the entire Church and humanity. The methodology was the culture of encounter: taking time to get to know one another and being together, to feel as \u2019people of God,\u2019 a community in which one can grow, helped by those who are moving on with us.\u201d The experience of the congress is fully part of the path towards the bishops\u2019 Synod on the youths, to be held next October.<\/strong> \u201cThe words that Pope Francis said?? to the Italian youths gathered together last 11 August in Rome resounded strongly in us: \u2018Do not be content with the cautious steps of those who settle down at the end of the line.\u2019 We need courage to risk a leap ahead, a courageous and fearless leap to dream and fulfil, like Jesus, the kingdom of God, and commit ourselves to a more brotherly humanity. We need brotherhood: take the risk, and move ahead!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the title of the recent Congress for the Focolare youths active in the local Church, with participants from Italy and various countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}