{"id":307730,"date":"2021-01-28T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-presidents-report\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:53","slug":"the-presidents-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-presidents-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s report"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Assembly\u00a0 Diary 5 \u2013 January 28, 2021<\/strong> Today, at the Focolari Assembly it has been \u00a0a day of assessment. The programme included group discussion on the President\u2019s \u00a0report on the past six years. The participants received the document over a week ago and so each one\u00a0 had time to examine it in detail. Many questions emerged; some of which were put to the President \u00a0Maria Voce and to Co-President Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n in the early afternoon.<\/em>

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Maria Voce and Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/p><\/div> Maria Voce explained that the report \u00a0was not meant to be “a list of activities”, but rather to offer “a reading of the experience lived”. She drew attention to the so-called “new structure” of the Focolare Movement: a process initiated to actualize the charism of unity in the different contexts of the world. Maria Voce admitted that this process has created “a certain disorientation” in various areas, but she also underlined its positive effects: a new protagonism in the local communities and new synergies between the many branches of the Movement and \u00a0its territorial subdivisions, that \u00a0gave room to a new creativity. After highlighting the valuable contribution given by the new generations of the Movement, among whom she found “committed people, ready to assume their responsibilities”, the President gave an analysis of the three orientations that emerged from the Assembly in 2014. Regarding the first point, “outgoing”<\/strong>, she highlighted the areas in the most varied environments, such as in the social field or in intercultural dialogue, \u00a0in which the Focolare has offered its typical contribution to unity.With regards to the second point, “together”<\/strong>, she noted that there is less \u00a0tendency towards fragmentation within the Movement, while \u00a0tendency towards more synergistic work is on the increase. Finally, she emphasised that efforts have been made to live the last point, “properly prepared”<\/strong>, by developing new paths of human and spiritual formation for members and leaders. Both the report and the subsequent answers given by Maria Voce and Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n did not hide the challenges and critical points that the Movement is facing, such as the difficulty in finding suitable ways and means to communicate its charism in a way that is relevant to today’s world; a drop in the number of vocations and the great challenge that arose because of \u00a0the painful emergence of different forms of abuse even within the Movement, which means – as Co-President Mor\u00e1n stated – the need to continue along the path of “an inevitable and necessary process of ‘purification of memory’ that we are called to live with humility and hope”. The perspectives referred to \u00a0by \u00a0the President at the end of her report started from a reading of the “signs of the times”, that is, the questions posed by the world\u2019s situation, including that of the Covid pandemic:\u00a0 this \u00a0asks for a sober and sustainable lifestyle, an \u00a0increased sensitivity to the role of the new media and a greater attention to the family. She ended \u00a0with a decisive appeal to live a radical faithfulness \u00a0to the Gospel, which for the Focolare Movement means faithfulness \u00a0to the key word of its charism: “Father, may they all be one” (Jn 17:21). <\/p>\n

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