Details movement: The courage to announce that Jesus unites

Beatrice Garra – Vatican City

Margaret Karam, head of the Focolar movement, commented on the media in the Vatican Ecumenical Prayer for Peace and Reconciliation held on Thursday, March 27th, in Bazilica San Pablo outside.

Long way

This event is part of the conference “Call for Hope – the heroes of dialogue”, which is an important occasion for confrontation between believers for twenty Christian churches for more than forty countries in four continents. The commitment in the field of ecumenism, which is implemented by the focus for more than forty years, acquires a private personality this year, also thanks to the conference: It allows convergence “with the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation, because this is what we lack,” Karam explained: “

After the effects of San Pablo

On the second day of the conference, which ended on March 29, the participants extend to the Basilica Saint Lorenzo and I manage Three fountainsA moment before the ecumenical prayer in the external San Pablo.

The head of the Focolar movement said that the pilgrimage had this meaning of embodying “the desire to walk together, to make this same path here in Rome, apologizing for our departments, because it made us suffer mutual during these centuries.”

An inspiring figure in this regard is undoubtedly St. Paul, the man, “the conversion, who also declared Jesus Christ with all his strength, courageously.” After his steps, “We must have the courage to announce that Jesus is what unites us, Jesus is our hope for this jubilee.” Thus, believers were able to try the beauty of meeting with God in every church, which stopped in prayer.

“I think we sometimes lack silence, worship, and thinking. There are many things that unite us and this gives us value, and our faith increases. “

Asset witnesses

Among the conference’s participants, who arrived from all over the world, there were also numbers at the history of the movement, such as Callan Slipper, the priest of the Anglican Church, are deeply committed to dialogue between Christians in the UK. He was present at the London meeting, where she felt several years ago, a strong desire to adhere to the ecumenical field.

The priest says: “Shera saw a thousand people in front of her, who were from all churches,” and there was a deep feeling of love and loneliness among all members of this meeting.

Father Callan said: “The truth of the church in which we live is that Jesus hosts ourselves in the bosom of the Father, through our mutual love.”

This meeting, which Chara lived in a prophetic way, also opened a vision on how to live ecumenical, “a divine life to share with everyone, and” pectina for people “, which becomes a body through dialogue in the daily life of individuals. In times of conflict, “the only way to achieve peace is the generation of really deep and loving relationships,” the priest said:

United to work together

There are many challenges that await Christian churches at this exact historical moment of tensions, which become clear to join together to work together. As in the Philippines, where the ecumenical movement is committed “in the care of creation,” said Jlius Batista, a sponsor of the Methodic Churches, to the Vatican media.

The religious prominent his proximity to the Holy Father at the present time: “The majority of the Philippine residents pray to the Pope to recover soon. It is very important to come to meetings like this – Bishop Charles May commented from the Anglican Church in South Africa – because you know what other countries do in the ecumenical field. Ecumenism has to do with loneliness in Christ, the love of Christ to the other and the knowledge that Christ is not divided. The image of God is real when we meet. ”