{"id":327954,"date":"2016-02-02T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/consecrated-life-brothers-and-sisters-by-vocation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:02:53","slug":"consecrated-life-brothers-and-sisters-by-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/consecrated-life-brothers-and-sisters-by-vocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Consecrated life: brothers and sisters by vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20160201-01\"<\/a>Fr <\/strong>Salvo, could you draw a conclusion to this regard? <\/strong> \u00abIt was the endowment of a very strong grace that touched also the ample strata of the Church, besides of course, affecting all the consecrated members. Pope Francis imbued this year with particularly inspiring thoughts and events also through the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Apostolic Life Societies (CIVCSVA<\/a>). Of course it is still too early to take stock of everything, since I am convinced that it was an in-depth event and the fruits will be fully seen as time passes.\u00bb <\/strong> What role did the Religious members of the Focolare play?<\/strong> \u00abThe particular sensitivity to unity, typical of Chiara Lubich\u2019s spirituality, offers to the members of the Movement, a sort of know-how<\/em> that inspires them to give priority to relationships and transform them into communion. The religious men and women<\/a> belonging to the Focolare committed themselves to the initiatives of their communities and dioceses, or to national activities and those of the universal Church, giving their imprint of communion, a spirit the Church hoped would develop more and more as the \u201chome and school of communion.\u201d In one of the European countries, it was precisely the religious and consecrated people of the Movement who proposed the project of an encounter for consecrated youth, to the Conference of Major Superiors. The heads highly appreciated the contents and methods, so as to make it their own initiative. Around 250 young religious participated, with really important impressions and results.\u00bb And with regard to the initiatives set up by the Holy Father and the Congregation of Consecrated Life? <\/strong> Great importance was given to Pope Francis\u2019s invitation to show the joy of consecrated life and to prophetically act in the \u201cexistential outskirts,\u201d as expressed in his Apostolic Letter to all the consecrated men and women<\/em><\/a>: \u201cI expect you to \u00abwake the world up\u00bb, because the typical feature of consecrated life is prophecy.\u201d He thus underlined a specific attribute of Religious Life characterised by that of being harbingers of charismas, that is, of gifts for the good of the entire Church. TCIVCSVA then developed the thoughts of Pope Francis with three letters: one dedicated to Joy which must distinguish the consecrated religious (Rejoice); another dealing with their capacity to be prophets for the world (Keep Watch); and the third, a contemplative dimension of their life (Contemplate). These three documents are a reference point for the future of Consecrated Life in the Church. As to the events, we certainly must note the meeting in Rome of the young religious last September. It was a convention of great impact, with 5,000 participants from all over the world, and lasted 4 days. It is not something we see often. It also impressed me because of the significance of the ecumenical Dialogue of religious men and women held from 22 to 25 January 2015. This was an absolute \u201cfirst\u201d in the Vatican, which Pope Francis wanted so much, and a sign of the progress of the journey among Christians of various denominations. Fr. Jose\u0301 M. Herna\u0301ndez, a Claretian, said that each one is called to \u201cbe a bridge and not a trench\u201d among Christians. I think this is a good augur which well expresses the rest of the journey we still have to undertake.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year dedicated by Pope Francis to Consecrated Life is now at its conclusion. An interview with Fr. Salvo D\u2019Orto of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, in charge of the branch of Religious members of the Focolare.<\/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-327954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327954","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=327954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}