With 130 participants from 22 countries, the Fifth Meeting of the New Forms of Consecrated Life began today, June 13, 2019, in Rome. This meeting is an expression that indicates those institutions, or ecclesial families, other than institutes of religious life and secular institutes, that appeared in the context of the Second Vatican Council. The theme of the gathering is: “Opening Paths: Consecration and States of Life in the New Forms of Consecrated Life”.
Jesús Fernandez, president of the Identes missionaries, expressed that what distinguishes consecrated persons is the aspiration to mystical union and holiness, and that, in order to help the Church to be a leaven of holiness, the consecrated life must have moral authority. In turn, M. Margarete Binder, international head of the Spiritual Family “The Work”, commented that she had recently been able to tell Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI about this meeting and the Pope recommended them not to forget the three ‘p’s: patience, perseverance and prayer. Finally, Father Rodrigo Carrizo, president of the “Verbum Dei”, said that the new forms are a road under construction that we are preparing for those to come.
Distinguishing between baptismal consecration and charismatic consecration, both in the celibate state and in the married state, and identifying the well-known essentials of these new forms of consecration, are some of the challenges proposed by Lourdes Grosso, idente missionary and Director of the Secretariat for Consecrated Life (Spanish Episcopal Conference).
After the work in groups, Friedrich Bechina, FSO, Undersecretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, focused his reflection on the relationship between different states of life, within the same institution, and the definition of the ecclesial family as a new form of consecrated life.
The central aim of these meetings is to bring together the institutes and associations of pontifical and diocesan right, already approved as consecrated life, or in the process of being so, to deepen the common traits of these new charisms. The conclusion will be presided over by H.E.R. Mons. José Rodríguez Carballo, OFM, Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The coordination team of the meeting is composed of members of the Missionary Fraternity Verbum Dei, of the Spiritual Family The Work and of the Institute Id of Christ the Redeemer, women and men idente missionaries. The sessions will take place in the Enrico De Ossò Holiday Home (Via Val Cannuta, 134 – 00166 Rome).
!["El mundo puede cambiar desde el corazón"
(Papa Francisco, Encíclica Dilexit Nos)
"El Corazón de Cristo es éxtasis, es salida, es donación, es encuentro. En él nos volvemos capaces de relacionarnos de un modo sano y feliz, y de construir en este mundo el Reino de amor y de justicia. Nuestro corazón unido al de Cristo es capaz de este milagro social.
Tomar en serio el corazón tiene consecuencias sociales. Como enseña el Concilio Vaticano II, «tenemos todos que cambiar nuestros corazones, con los ojos puestos en el orbe entero y en aquellos trabajos que todos juntos podemos llevar a cabo para que nuestra generación mejore». Porque «los desequilibrios que fatigan al mundo moderno están conectados con ese otro desequilibrio fundamental que hunde sus raíces en el corazón humano». [21] Ante los dramas del mundo, el Concilio invita a volver al corazón, explicando que el ser humano «por su interioridad es, en efecto, superior al universo entero; a esta profunda interioridad retorna cuando entra dentro de su corazón, donde Dios le aguarda, escrutador de los corazones (cf. 1 S 16,7; Jr 17,10), y donde él personalmente, bajo la mirada de Dios, decide su propio destino».
Esto no significa confiar excesivamente en nosotros mismos. Tengamos cuidado: advirtamos que nuestro corazón no es autosuficiente; es frágil y está herido. Tiene una dignidad ontológica, pero al mismo tiempo debe buscar una vida más digna. Dice también el Concilio Vaticano II que «el fermento evangélico ha despertado y despierta en el corazón del hombre esta irrefrenable exigencia de la dignidad», aunque para vivir conforme a esa dignidad no nos basta conocer el Evangelio ni cumplir mecánicamente lo que nos manda. Necesitamos el auxilio del amor divino. Acudamos al Corazón de Cristo, ese centro de su ser, que es un horno ardiente de amor divino y humano y es la mayor plenitud que puede alcanzar lo humano. Allí, en ese Corazón es donde nos reconocemos finalmente a nosotros mismos y aprendemos a amar."](https://www.idente.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
