Movements and Communities
Associations and Movements
Giving themselves to God in the service of the Church and all the suffering and outcast, thereby making hope visible around the world
From Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, around 1,000 people, who belong to the faithful association, Família da Esperança, came from various countries around the world to participate in a pilgrimage to Rome ...
Associations and Movements
The annual meeting with the moderators
One hundred and fifty participants and eighty-five ecclesial associations were represented at the Annual Meeting with moderators of the international associations of the faithful, ecclesial ...
Associations and movements
Theme of the Meeting: Apostolicity, the heart of movements' identity
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which concluded with a ...
Associations and movements
An insight into the meaning of the statutes for an association that is recognized by the Church
The statutes of an associations are a "guarantee for safeguarding the charism" that generated them. A statutory text reflects and guards the life and charism typical of an ...
The Pope's Video
The Pope's video of the month of May to pray for ecclesial movements and groups
Ecclesial movements “are a treasure in the Church”: they speak “different languages” and “they seem different, but it is their creativity that creates these differences.” This is how Pope ...
Charis
An agenda from the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Services to celebrate 2000 years from Christ's death and resurrection
A work agenda to plan a path toward 2033: missions, events and celebrations for the 2000th anniversary of Christ's death and resurrection. This is the proposal of Charis, the Catholic ...
New communities
Prefect Farrell's address during the Course for the Bishops of Brazil
The new communities are "a resource and a great potential" because they "can offer their members paths for evangelization and catechesis, of first proclamation, of Christian ...
Associations and movements
Prefect Farrell's words during his visit to the Shalom Community in Brazil
“Each one of you must learn how to 'be with Jesus' above all things. You must know how to find the appropriate time and way to stay in the Lord's company. Only those who have learned to ‘be with ...
Charis
The Secretary, Fr. Awi Mello, meets with the coordinators of the National Services of Communion
“Promoting, fostering and strengthening communion and unity among all the realities of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in each country." With this encouragement Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, ...
Associations and Movements
Card. Farrell and Dr. Ghisoni speak at the conference organized by the Focolare Movement
Last June 20, the Pontifical Lateran University (PUL) hosted a theological conference entitled, "Movements and New Communities. Identity in the Synodal Path of the Church," organized ...