{"id":306948,"date":"2019-05-31T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/help-all-members-of-the-movement-to-express-themselves-freely\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:39:49","slug":"help-all-members-of-the-movement-to-express-themselves-freely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/help-all-members-of-the-movement-to-express-themselves-freely\/","title":{"rendered":"Help all members of the Movement to express themselves freely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A commission has been set up to prepare for the 2020 Focolare General Assembly. Indications have been given by the President Maria Voce and Co-president Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n: guarantee maximum freedom of expression for all!<\/em>  The indications that the President Maria Voce gave to the Commission entrusted with the preparation for the coming Focolare Movement General Assembly were brief and clear: \u201cI expect that during the preparatory process for the next General Assembly this commission will help all members of the Movement to express themselves freely, and that a synthesis of all the material received will be compiled so that no one feels excluded. This process is to be carried out without any pre-established interests\u201d.  This commission had its first meeting at Castel Gandolfo during the weekend of 24-26 May. While preparing for the General Assembly scheduled to take place in September 2020, the commission is expected to see to the organization and to the subject-matter that will be dealt with during the Assembly. Its 18 members, who represent the Movement\u2019s geographical areas and different branches and expressions, come from the five continents and live their call to the Movement in various forms and vocations.  &#8220;The 2020 Assembly will be of particular importance,&#8221; emphasized Co-President Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n during a meeting that the Commission had with the Movement\u2019s General Council on Sunday, May 26. After two terms of six years each, the current President Maria Voce can no longer be re-elected. A change &#8211; according to Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n &#8211; that will involve an important step further for the whole Movement. &#8220;Certainly, some crucial issues will come up for discussion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We would like to make sure that this takes place in full freedom\u201d.  In order to guarantee this freedom, Maria Voce did not want to give any indication about the subject-matter that the 2020 Assembly will have to deal with. When asked if, on the basis of her sensitivity for the whole Movement, she has any themes to suggest, she replied: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any and I don&#8217;t want to have any, because I would not like to impose any condition on the Movement\u2019s present requirements&#8221;.  During the coming months, the preparatory commission will have to see to various matters. It has to start a process through which it can collect the most important issues that the Movement will have to address in the coming years and on which the Assembly needs to express itself. It needs to identify people who are suitable and willing to be candidates for the roles of President, Co-President and Councillors. It has to prepare and propose a balanced programme that will enable the Assembly to work seriously and responsibly. It needs to express as much as possible all the realities of the Focolare Movement, in its most diverse cultural expressions. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Joachim Schwind<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commission has been set up to prepare for the 2020 Focolare General Assembly. Indications have been given by the President Maria Voce and Co-president Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n: guarantee maximum freedom of expression for all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-306948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306948","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}