{"id":27194,"date":"2012-09-28T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/ecclesial-movements-impact-syn\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:04:01","slug":"ecclesial-movements-impact-syn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/ecclesial-movements-impact-syn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclesial Movements impact Synod of Bishops on Evangelization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you ought to see a significant theme in the work of\u00a0<i>Communio<\/i>, both on this blog and as a way of being in the Church: it is as Dom Luigi Gioia, OSB Oliv., has said about this theological point, &#8220;To describe the whole Church, as well as each Christian community, as a\u00a0<i>communio<\/i>\u00a0before speaking of &#8216;body,&#8217; or &#8216;society,&#8217; or &#8216;institution,&#8217; -terms which have of course their share of truth- is knowingly to make charity the essential element of a Christian community, the condition\u00a0<i>sine qua non<\/i>\u00a0of its existence, its\u00a0<i>raison d&#8217;\u00eatre<\/i>.&#8221; Charity has as its essential element of extroversion the living and sharing of the truth of the faith received by us from the Trinitarian life of God. Faith is a lens by which we live, it is not a pious statement of what we supposedly believe about God. The sharing of faith, this sharing of charity and faith in a\u00a0<i>communio<\/i>, is the heart of evangelization.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0Categories being what they are, are helpful in seeing\u00a0the division of labor and thinking. This is no less is the true for the Thirteenth\u00a0Ordinary General Assembly of the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synod\">Synod of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synod\">Bishops<\/a><\/strong>, 7 to 28 October, discussing &#8220;T<b>he new evangelization for\u00a0<\/b><b>the transmission of the Christian faith<\/b>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The leaders from the various\u00a0ecclesial movements are worth noting because the vital presence they and the movements they represent have in the life of the Church:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Br. Enzo Bianchi, prior of the Monastero of Bose (Italy)<\/li>\n<li>Maria Voce (Italy), president of the Focolari Movement<\/li>\n<li>Marco\u00a0Impagliazzo (Italy), president of the Sant&#8217;Egidio Community<\/li>\n<li>Lydia Jimenez\u00a0Gonzalez (Spain), director general of the &#8220;Cruzadas de Santa Maria&#8221;\u00a0Secular Institute<\/li>\n<li>Francisco Jose Gomez Arguello Wirtz (Spain), co-founder of\u00a0the Neo-Catechumenal Way<\/li>\n<li>Chiara Amirante, founder and president of the New\u00a0Horizons Community (Italy)<\/li>\n<li>Florence De Leyritz, member of the Alpha France\u00a0Association (France)<\/li>\n<li>Marc De Leyritz, president of the Alpha France Association\u00a0(France)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>*Father Juli\u00e1n Carr\u00f3n, the President of the Fraternity of Communion and\u00a0Liberation might be counted here, too, but he actually is listed by the Holy\u00a0See among the bishops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you ought to see a significant theme in the work of\u00a0Communio, both on this blog and as a way of being in the Church: it is as Dom Luigi Gioia, OSB Oliv., has said about this theological point, &#8220;To describe the whole Church, as well as each Christian community, as a\u00a0communio\u00a0before speaking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/ecclesial-movements-impact-syn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ecclesial Movements impact Synod of Bishops on Evangelization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[2852,2763,2853,2656,31912,3009,2407,1744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29950,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions\/29950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}