{"id":327118,"date":"2015-03-06T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/consecrated-life-a-prophetic-vocation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:59:44","slug":"consecrated-life-a-prophetic-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/consecrated-life-a-prophetic-vocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Consecrated life: a prophetic vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1000614\"<\/a>“I found myself in the hospital due to a serious accident<\/strong>. It was the first time I ever experienced such pain.” Sr Felicitas from the Philippines recounts . However, it was precisely in the hospital that I experimented God\u2019s love through the people who came to visit me. Some priests brought me the Eucharist which in that moment was everything to me. The chaplain was warm and helpful. Surrounded by so much love I responded in the same way: it was a chain of reciprocity.” Sr Felicitas\u2019 experience stresses the<\/strong> impact <\/strong>of the <\/strong>spirituality of communion<\/a> as a possible answer to the demands of community apostolic life in the world: “It is an extraordinary coincidence between what the Church and the world ask of consecrated life,” Sr Antonia Moioli, head of the consecrated of the Focolare Movement<\/a> affirmed. “The seed Chiara has sowed inside us germinates and at times blooms and become a prophetic voice that indicates the way to humanity that has gone astray and becomes an \u201cexterior castle,\u201d irradiating love. “Grow and live in the spirituality of unity,” is what the Prefect for the Congregation of the Institutes of Consecrated Life Associations, Cardinal Jo\u00e3o Braz de Aviz, asked of the religious <\/strong>men and women members of the Focolare,<\/strong> “because when charisms meet, they become vigorous and the Work of Mary (Focolare Movement) <\/em>make charism shine, it enlightens them. Words are not needed \u2013 he continued \u2013 just be witnesses of the Gospel lived; this is the road to change. The specific vocation of the consecrated religious men and women is to open the prophetic roads while testifying to the values of the Kingdom. This is what the Church and humanity expects today, and to fulfil this we must return to our own charisms and liven it up.” Giuseppe Zangh\u00ec (Peppuccio)<\/a>, philosopher and scholar, regards Chiara Lubich<\/a> as a bring of a light that has created the conditions for a new culture, that flowed from Jesus Forsaken: He is the God of contemporary man. \u00abHis reflections – again Sr Antonia explains \u2013 spurs us to be a light in the darkness, sentinels that announce the dawn. Will we be able to fulfill the prophetic vocation typical of consecrated life?<\/strong> In the past, monasteries and communities were the prestigious centres of culture and spirituality ; can we still look to this ancient-and-new reality as a challenge?” “Right here today we have found a treasure chest,” Maria Voce<\/a>, Focolare President affirmed, “and together we can give this treasure to the entire Church and all the world, which, in order to believe in Christ, needs to see how Christians love one another. These riches God has given us, making of us his family, is for the benefit of humanity. This is the sense of that \u201cgoing all out\u201d Pope Francis continues to underline., and the universal brotherhood of humanity begins with the fraternity among us, in every convent, every community, every congregation and order and in the entire Church.” The Congress of the consecrated opens out to a future to be built, not alone, but together with many others, that makes of us the testimonials to a love that defies all differences.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What could be my contribution to Consecrated life? This is the question facing the 120 religious of various congregations, who live the Focolare\u2019s spirituality of communion, at the their 12-15 February meeting in Castel Gandolfo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-327118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327118","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}