{"id":329278,"date":"2017-06-20T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/jesus-moran-creative-fidelity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:07:38","slug":"jesus-moran-creative-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/jesus-moran-creative-fidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n: Creative fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FedeltaCreativa\"<\/a>With a radio transmission emceed by Alessandro De Carolis, Radio Vatican<\/strong> journalist, the author dialogued with Fr. Juli\u00e1n Carr\u00f3n<\/strong> (president of the Communion and Liberation Fraternity) and Maria Grazia Vergari<\/strong> (vice president of the Adult Section of the Catholic Action). Here are some excerpts of the interview that Giorgia Bresciani, journalist of \u201cInBlu Radio,\u201d held with <\/strong>Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/a> on 30 May:<\/strong> G. B.<\/strong>\u2013The presentation of your book<\/a> was the occasion to experience a moment of dialogue and fraternity between the ecclesiastic movements. In the Pentecost of 1998, John Paul II and at that time, Cardinal Ratzinger initiated a joint pathway of communion between all movements. What do you think happened that day and what point of that journey have we reached? J.M.<\/strong>\u2013I think that 29 May was really blessed by the Holy Spirit, and was a grace for us. I remember that Feast of the Pentecost of 1988 vividly, and it was one of the most beautiful days of my life. It seemed as if the first Pentecost had become a concrete reality, due to the presence of many people, and an unforgettable day! I had arrived from Chile where I was living. It was effectively a historic moment, an ecclesial event because for the first time, the new movements had gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square all together. It was a fundamental encounter between the charism of Peter and the charisms created by the Holy Spirit in our epoch. It was like going public, giving visibility to the ecclesial charisms, and an \u201cacknowledgement\u201d of this fact. Since then the journey has progressed with ups and downs. <\/strong>This experience extended also to ecumenical levels and saw the creation of \u201cTogether for Europe<\/a>.\u201d We thus committed ourselves to the unity of all Christians. Then there were other joint encounters between the movements. Over the years, however, some of the founders passed away, and obviously this slowed things down: the deaths of Fr. Giussani, Chiara Lubich<\/a> and other leaders, had an impact because this reality of unity and communion of the movements had been decisively their idea. \"UNESCO_15Nov16_JesusMoran_02\"<\/a>An occasion like that of 29 May is a push to continue their work. <\/strong>We are now in a post-founding phase and have to <\/strong>restart from that \u201cprophecy.\u201dAnd the presentation of my book is oriented in that direction. G.B.<\/strong>\u2013You mentioned the death of some founders. Precisely you, Maria Voce<\/a>, and Fr.Carr\u00f3n, are in that \u201cpost-founding period,\u201d the \u201csecond phase\u201d which is a tricky one: you have a complex and exciting task. In the light of your position, what do you think an ecclesial movement needs most in this phase? J.M.<\/strong>\u2013I believe that the \u201cpost-founding\u201d phase isalso a charismatic one.<\/strong>There are different types of graces from those bound to the founding moment, and lies in the perspective of the incarnation: the great challenge is that the charism, following the trail of the founder, increasingly becomes \u201chistory.\u201d It is thus a phase of service to the Church and to humanity. This calls for a different kind of maturity. We have to work together, bringing to light personal and community talents, because when the founder is present, the light of the charism is very strong, and the founder \u201cincarnates\u201dit almost by herself. Now God wants us to start up our charismatic intelligence and our forces. And we have to do it together! This is the great challenge. This is what I tried to say with this concept (already used by John Paul II) of \u201ccreative fidelity\u201d: faithfulness to the charism, and at the same time, capacity for innovation and creativity, always a fruit of the Holy Spirit, and greater insertion into the Church and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new book entitled \u201cCreative Fidelity, the challenge of the implementation of a charism\u201d by Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n, Co-President of the Focolare Movement, was edited by New City and presented on 29 May, in Rome.<\/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-329278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329278","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=329278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}