{"id":326774,"date":"2014-11-01T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/volunteers-contemplatives-in-the-midst-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:58:21","slug":"volunteers-contemplatives-in-the-midst-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/volunteers-contemplatives-in-the-midst-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers, contemplatives in the midst of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo \u00a9 Giancarlo Nuzzolo<\/p><\/div> 415 men and women Volunteers <\/strong>attended the Assemblies of the two branches of the Focolare Movement <\/a>, representing the 23,000 members worldwide. The meetings were held in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) last 22 – 26 October<\/strong>. Their specific vocation comes to light<\/strong>: while sharing the difficulties of all, they are called to irradiate the light of the Spirit with concrete actions, preparing themselves constantly to face present-day challenges, in all fields of life. They took stock of the path they have undertaken over the last six years, in terms of both spiritual growth and also in social works achieved and in the commitment to diffuse the culture of brotherhood in the various sectors society. Besides the 223 women volunteers and the 162 men volunteers from the five continents, with 17 languages under simultaneous translation, there was also a big group of guests., among which were members of various Churches.<\/strong> \u00abYour presence here is vital, since this makes us all ecumenical, universal in the full sense of the term \u00bb – affirmed Maria Ghislandi, international outgoing directress in her opening speech.

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Photo \u00a9 Giancarlo Nuzzolo<\/p><\/div> On 23 October<\/strong> \u2013 precisely during the work sessions \u2013 was the anniversary of the 1956 events in Hungary:<\/a> following Soviet repression, for which Pope Pius 12th<\/sup> appealed to all to bring God back into the world. As a response to this plea, Chiara Lubich<\/a>\u2019s inspiration, \u201cGod\u2019s Volunteers\u201d<\/a>were born in the heart of the Focolari Movement. Maria Voce<\/a> defined them as \u00aba concrete and mature reality\u00bb, underlining how \u2013 they bring the IDeal of unity to the factories, offices, families, in society with its suffering, pain, wars \u00a0– the Volunteers recall the Eucharist, in its being love which takes flesh. She invited them to become, in unity with the entire Focolari Movement, capable of bringing messages of truth and hope, as Pope Francis said during the last Synod.

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Maria Ghislandi, Maria Voce, Paolo Mottironi, Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n. Photo \u00a9 Giancarlo Nuzzolo<\/p><\/div> Co-President, Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/a> recalled that the particularity and beauty of the Volunteers lies in being \u201cmediators\u201d of the the Charism\u2019s light, so that all may enter into all the structures of the movement. This is demonstrated by the experience of people of various continents and professions, situated in the most different environments and fields of work: public administration, justice, public relations, immigration and reception, the world of education and legality. He continued:<\/strong> \u00abWe are involved in going out, but you, with your vocation, are in the frontline in bringing the dimension of the global-person that has to be born \u00a0\u00bb. In the sessions that followed, the volunteers from Syria and other Middle East countries testified that this type of \u201cglobal-person\u201d who believes in the revolution brought about by the charism of unity, already exists everywhere.. During the five days, there were work groups that gathered the motions from the zones with the aim of drawing up proposals, suggestions and programmes to be presented to the plenary session of the Assembly.

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Paolo Mottironi, Patience Moll\u00e8 Lob\u00e8 – Photo \u00a9 Giancarlo Nuzzolo<\/p><\/div> Two themes the works will focus on are: vocation \/training, with commitment to social work, the New humanity <\/a>organisation, dialogues with the ecumenical<\/a>,<\/span> interreligious<\/a> world, persons of no religious affiliation <\/a>and culture <\/a>and local communities. The Men Volunteers\u2019 Assembly<\/b> reelected for a second mandate, Paolo Mottironi, 50 years of age, Italian, married and two sons, a public servant. \u00a0. The Women Volunteers <\/strong>voted Patience F\u00e9licit\u00e9 Moll\u00e8 Lob\u00e8,<\/a> 57 years of age from Cameroon, a widow, civil engineer and engaged in politics. \u00abI see in all I have lived \u2013Patience confided<\/strong>\u2013 that God was preparing me for a plan of love I was not aware of \u00bb. And Paolo Mottironi<\/strong> concluded: \u00abWe are writing the story of our lives with a new chapter construed along the lines of the previous pages. Help us to be always, more than ever, a service. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGod\u2019s Volunteers:\u201d \u00abA concrete and mature reality, able to imbue the world with truth and hope, light and concreteness,\u00bb the President, Maria Voce affirmed on closing the two assemblies of these branches of the Focolari Movement<\/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-326774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326774","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=326774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}