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<\/a>Gabri Fallacara and Severin Schmid are welcomed at the headquarters of ACER-MJO Movment by the president During the annual meeting of the \u201cFriends of Together for Europe\u201d in Paris, representatives of the Focolare Movement visited the headquarters of the Orthodox Movement, Acer-Mjo.<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342530","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=342530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cyrille Sollogoub.<\/p><\/div> Spiritual trust, depth of sharing, discovery of a real friendship in Christ as a seed of a Christian European conscience<\/strong>; these are just a few of the fruits of the visit on 6th<\/sup> November of representatives of the Focolare Movement to the headquarters of the Acer-MJO<\/a> Movement (Russian Students\u2019 Christian Action \u2013 Orthodox Youth Movement) in Paris. During the annual meeting of\u00a0 \u201cFriends of Together for Europe<\/a>\u201d which took place on 7th<\/sup>-9th<\/sup>November in the French capital, Gabri Fallacara, Severin Schmid and Maria Wienken from Focolare, were\u00a0 received by Cyrille Sollogoub , President of the Orthodox association. The Acer Movement was started in 1923 by some Russians who had been expelled from their country during the troubled years of the Revolution. The founders include such important personalities as Fr. Sergio Boulgakov, Fr. Giorgio Florovsky and Nicolas Berdiaev. The President, accompanied by his brother Igor who is responsible for the youth section, took us to the Church – Chapel , housed in a former garage in the courtyard, covered with glass. The Divine Liturgy has been celebrated here by\u00a0 famous Orthodox priests and theologians like Florovsky , Bulgakov and Alexander Men. Cyrille explained that<\/strong> \u201cThe icon that best expresses the charism of the Acer Movement is the presentation of Mary in the Temple: she contains Jesus and therefore she contains the Church. While in Russia, the churches were being destroyed and the Russian emigrants did not have the means to build others, a new understanding of what the Church is was born: not built from bricks but by living people, bearers of Christ and of his Church.” The aim of\u00a0 raising awareness, especially among the laity, of “being Church” is therefore at the origin of the Acer Movement which was\u00a0 approved by the Patriarch of Russia, Tikon, who was then assassinated; it depends juridically on the Patriarch of Constantinople. The President recalled, \u201cDuring the regime one of the main tasks of Acer was to print the Bible, spiritual and cultural literature and get it to\u00a0 Russia. It also supported the families of dissidents and others in need.” Printing is still an important activity for Acer The youth section is very active and involves over 200 young people.\u00a0 Despite the challenge of distance,\u00a0 summer camps are organized\u00a0 for them in the mountains, as an opportunity for re-evangelization; in this way the sense of faith and of belonging to the Church grows. Once trained, the young people get involved\u00a0 in their own parishes. This beautiful opportunity<\/strong> to meet and get to know one another left us with a sense of gratitude to God who brings us together in the world today with eyes of hope, open to a future of communion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"