{"id":307720,"date":"2021-01-26T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/charism-prophecy-incarnation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:52","slug":"charism-prophecy-incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/charism-prophecy-incarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charism, prophecy, incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Assembly Diary 3, 26 January 2021<\/em><\/strong>

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Stefan Tobler<\/p><\/div> \u201cWho knows if our role is not so much to give \u2018light\u2019, but rather to enter into the darkness, into the mud, into the desperation of lack of dignity, […] into the thousands of different kinds of poverty of our times?\u201d This provocative question may best capture the second day of the spiritual retreat of the Focolare General Assembly. After the opening ecumenical prayer which emphasized the need for a profound conversion of hearts, Stefan Tobler<\/strong>, theologian of the Swiss Reformed Church and Paula Luengo, psychologist from Chile, presented the central theme of \u2018incarnation\u2019: what does the fact that God became man, least among the least, actually mean? And what does living and implementing the spirituality of unity mean for the Focolare today?

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Silvina Chemen<\/p><\/div> The academics presented their reflections from two complementary points of view. Stefan Tobler turned to the mysical writings of Chiara Lubich in order to highlight the value of the incarnation. \u201cFor Chiara, it is not just a past moment in history, but rather a fact that permanently changed the meaning of all creation, giving a value of eternity, of highest dignity to the things of this earth\u201d. And, Dr Tober concluded, the incarnation will continue if we\u2019re able to \u201chave simple eyes which can discover God under the reality of this world\u201d.

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Paula Luengo<\/p><\/div> The new dignity which the world assumes when seen from this viewpoint, should provoke a change of perspective in us, explained Paula Luengo<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019ll never find our identity by navel-gazing. But rather, as Chiara says, by embracing \u2018all those who are alone\u2019.\u201d We must \u2013 continued Dr Luengo – \u201ctake humanity, in all its depths, as our starting-point. So incarnation is a movement seeking out closeness and a going down deep\u201d. Two other contributors reached the same conclusion. Luigino Bruni<\/strong>, Italian, Professor of Political Economics and the History of Economic Thought, and Silvina Chemen<\/strong>, Argentinian, Rabbi in Buenos Aires, offered their reflections on \u201ccharism, prophecy and incarnation\u201d, posing the question: is it still possible to speak of the prophetic dimension of a charism today? \u201cWhere there are brothers and sisters,\u201d argued Silvina Chemen, \u201cthere is prophecy. Where there\u2019s fraternity, the voice [of God] appears; when we\u2019re truly together, God manifests himself\u201d.

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Luigino Bruni<\/p><\/div> Many questions about the present and future of the Movement came up in the group meetings, such as what it means today to remain faithful to the roots. Luigino Bruni offered, \u201cIt\u2019s always particularly difficult for a charismatic community to be able to understand that the first story, the wonderful story which made us day-dream and showed us heaven, is over. But the story will continue because the promise was far greater than the first form our faith adopted in the first part of the journey\u201d. Focolare Communications Office<\/em>   Text in pdf<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Assembly Diary 3, 26 January 2021 \u201cWho knows if our role is not so much to give \u2018light\u2019, but rather to enter into the darkness, into the mud, into the desperation of lack of dignity, […] into the thousands of different kinds of poverty of our times?\u201d This provocative question may best capture the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-307720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307720","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}