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<\/a>Msgr Gerard De Korte and Dr Arjan Plaisier<\/p><\/div> <\/strong>\u201cIf we continue on this road, we will be able to look beyond the walls that still exist between our Churches, and will come to the day when there will be full visible communion among us Christians.\u201d These words were spoken by Dr Arjan Plaisier, General Secretary of the Protestant Church Synod in Holland<\/strong>, on the \u201cDay of Reconciliation\u201d that was attended by 4,000 Christians from 12 Churches and Communities. Among them there were also faithful and bishops from the Roman Catholic Church. Over the past five years leaders of the various Churches in Holland have met regularly to share their own faith and to pray for more unity and collaboration. With its motto, \u201cWe choose unity,\u201d <\/strong>this initiative began to spread through the ecclesiastical world in Holland like wildfire. It began to involve more and more leaders of the traditional Churches (Protestant Churches in Holland, Old Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church) and also Pentecostal and Evangelical Churches. In the land of tulips 4,000 Christians from 12 Churches and Communities gather for an ecumenical day of reconciliation as a sign of their unity.<\/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-341552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341552","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=341552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>During the last meeting, in February 2012, the idea of an event at an international event was born for Chrisitans of all the Churches and Communities. Seventy members of the Focolare Movement \u2013 already involved for some time through focolarini who belong to the Reformed Church \u2013 offered their support for the success of the event that took place on the 6th<\/sup> of October 2012 in Den Haag. The highpoint of the event was the moment of reciprocal forgiveness, for the offenses that were given and received: \u201cfor the arrogance with which we have looked down on one another, for the ease with which we have lived the break with the Roman Catholic Church,\u201d for how we have considered each other\u2019s Church as a Church from which the Holy Spirit was absent.\u201d Everything took place beneath a large Cross that was carried by three young people. And everything was entrusted to Christ Crucified and Risen, asking also for His forgiveness. One witness that was offered by a Focolare couple \u2013 she Catholic and he Reformed \u2013 gave a glimpse of a possible way for continuing to love the other\u2019s Church as one\u2019s own. <\/a>A very touching scene was the washing of the feet by three leaders of different Churches. It was a powerful way of expressing their decision to work together at the service of the new generations: a sign of a renewed ecumenism. \u201cThere is still much work to be done, but beginning from this event we Christians in Holland will now look at each other with new eyes,\u201d one participant commented. Now the \u201cWe choose unity\u201d project will be merged in the Holland Christian Forum that will begin in 2013. It is meant to be an open forum in which representatives of all Christian Churches and Communities in Holland can express themselves. It will be a place for sharing the faith, exchange expriences and create a platform for communion and collaboration, which is a necessary basis for progressing together along the road toward full visible communion among Christians. Hanneke Steetskamp – Holland<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"