Purpose
Objectives of the Community
The Community has the following objectives:
a) the sanctification of its members, promoting in each one, through formation and fraternal support, integral human development and the ability to respond fully to the Grace of Baptism;
b) participation in the Church's mission through the witness of communion of fraternal life and through her own activities in the field of prayer, evangelization, charity and human promotion, with particular attention to young people and families;
c) the diffusion, through a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit, of the grace of the Renewal.
"All those who had become believers were together" (Acts 2:44)
Our Community is an aggregation of both lay and clerical faithful who, in response to a specific vocation, tend by their own activity to participate in the works of apostolate typical of the Church and in the increase of a more authentic Christian life.
We were formed on the basis of a specific vocation.
It all started with an intervention and a decision of God, because nothing happens by chance. In fact, since baptism, God has placed, together with the many gifts, also the community vocation. This vocation, if repaid, has the power to create a reality, to constitute a charism, to carry out a mission. From the vocation comes the convocation. We realize that other brothers and sisters are also called in the same way, that we are united by the same commitment. Called to save themselves together and to depend on each other.
The community explained by the walking elders
THE COMMUNITY
IS CHARISMATIC
Corrado
The Community is charismatic because it believes in the exercise of the charisms, or gifts of the Holy Spirit, given for the accomplishment of different ministries, but all important within the Christian community for the construction of the Church, in accordance with what was established by the Second Vatican Council, which defines charisms as "special graces that make suitable and available to assume different tasks and offices for the renewal of the Church" (LG, 12). Charisms are personal graces and attitudes, both ordinary and extraordinary, granted to individuals for the benefit of the entire Christian community. In the Church, the visible body of Christ, charisms are necessary elements because they determine what function each member of the body should have. Without charisms we would not have a structured body. The exercise of charisms and ministries is a necessary condition for the growth of the community.
IN COMMUNION WITH THE LOCAL CHURCH
Alfonso
The Community recognizes in ecclesiastical authority the principal source of discernment, teaching and truth and has recourse to it for the solution of problems that cannot be adequately answered within it. It is available to the Church because it recognizes that charisms are given to the Church and only in obedience to the Bishop and subjected to his discernment can she grow and work with the guarantee of being anchored to the rock of Peter.
Our Community is fully ecclesial because, in communion with legitimate ecclesiastical authority, it is open to the participation of all the baptized (men and gifts, religious and laity) called to be part of it. So all the components of God's people can participate in it without limitations or reservations.
EXISTS FOR THE
MISSION
Aldo
"For thus the Lord has commanded us: I have placed you as a light for the nations, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth" (Acts 13:47).
The Community cannot and must not focus on itself; it cannot, nor must it simply remain attentive to its internal life. Indeed, she becomes aware of her being, in all her richness, in welcoming and exercising her mission. Likewise, she is faithful to her mission to the extent that she lives the mystery of her communion with Christ.
The evangelization of the Community is addressed to families and, in a particular way, to young people, as a response to the apostolic yearning of Pope John Paul II who made young people the privileged subject and, at the same time, the protagonists of the New Evangelization, entrusting to them the task of "sentinels of the Faith" at the dawn of the third millennium.