{"id":307248,"date":"2020-02-28T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/promoting-good-circulation-in-the-body-of-the-church\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:40:36","slug":"promoting-good-circulation-in-the-body-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/promoting-good-circulation-in-the-body-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting good circulation in the body of the church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circulating the gifts embodied in different religious families is good for the health of the Church, a process favoured by the spirituality of unity of Chiara Lubich.<\/em> \"\"A Church which \u2018Goes Forth\u2019, a \u2018field hospital\u2019. Pope Francis has used many different ways to express how he\u2019d like to see the Church today. A church capable of warming the hearts of the faithful, healing their wounds and going out towards \u2018existential peripheries\u2019. To be able to respond well to the demands of today\u2019s fragmented and wounded world, the Church must surely draw on all the talents and strengths it contains. This is particularly true in the case of its charisms, those \u2018forces for renewal\u2019 born in the Church throughout its history in response to precise circumstances and events, which then took permanent shape in a host of religious families. But how should they turn to each other, find ways of being together, of acting in a united way, when the Holy Spirit created them all distinct?! A convention entitled \u201cCharisms in communion: the prophecy of Chiara Lubich\u201d, 8-9 February at the Mariapolis Centre, Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy, aimed to demonstrate some of the tools which Chiara Lubich\u2019s charism of unity can offer to achieve this end. The 400 participants included members of religious orders, consecrated men and women, and Catholic laity, together with some members of the Orthodox Churches. Representing 100 different religious families and 33 countries, they engaged in dialogue and benefitted from the different perspectives which emerge when placing in communion their own identities, and in so doing, recognizing a more beautiful, gift-laden, attractive Church. According to Focolare President, Maria Voce, in her address, the title of the meeting \u201cstimulates us to listen and live as reciprocal gifts, because by offering the richness of each specific charism, we experience authentic sharing (…) to give to the world a credible face of the Church\u201d. Cardinal Jo\u00e3o Braz De Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life affirmed, \u201cwhen consecrated men and women come into contact with the Focolare Movement, they are helped and incentivized to value the originality of their own charism, to renew relationships of fraternity within their own Institutes, to appreciate and love other charisms as their own\u201d. The two day meeting produced a dynamic environment for discovering how these treasures within the Church can become ever more beautiful and fruitful, in announcing the Gospel and in enhancing the credibility of the Church. The presence of around fifty lay members of various religious families made a significant contribution in this context. \u201cThe charisms are a source of joy and express the beauty of the Church,\u201d explained Padre Fabio Ciardi, Oblate of Mary Immaculate and theologian of consecrated life. \u201cThey make you exclaim, \u2018How beautiful this is!\u2019\u201d \u201cWhen I was a novice, I heard Chiara encourage us to \u2018love the other congregation as our own\u2019,\u201d recalled canon lawyer Sr Tiziana Merletti, of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor. \u201cAnd I understood that unity really is a fundamental value.\u201d \u201cWe no longer talk about adapting the indispensable contribution of charismatic realities to the mission of the Church, but rather of circulating the gifts of all for the benefit of all (…) to discern the most suitable ways of serving the proclamation of the Gospel\u201d asserted Piero Coda, President of Sophia University Institute, Loppiano. \u201cWe have to arrive at a radical conversion,\u201d he added, \u201cto reach the point of loving the other, their charism, their religious family, more than our own charism and religious family. Only in this way can the Church truly be charismatic and missionary!\u201d <\/p>\n

Lorenzo Russo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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