Naples: new prayer meeting

On May 25, 2011 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Vomero,the first charismatic community prayer meeting of the Magnificat Community in the city of Naples began.

It is a new challenge that the Lord places before the discipleship journey that a small group of people from various towns in the Neapolitan hinterland have been undertaking for more than two years now, joining the fraternity in formation in Pompeii.

One of the participants in the meeting commented about this new opportunity offered by the Lord:
“This prayer meeting of the Magnificat Community in Naples is a special grace that allows us to grow better together, as a community, in prayer and fraternal love. Our desire is that this moment becomes a weekly appointment in our lives and in the lives of all those whom the Lord will want to call to share this call with us.

From different realities, in different places and at different times, the Lord has placed on the path of a small group of ordinary people blessed by God, such as we are, the Magnificat Community… and here at last, after a long journey, is our home! Oreste Pesare, from Rome, and Lorenzo and Carmela Pompa, from Foggia, have been accompanying us for two years now on this wonderful journey, which requires sacrifices but which overflows us with gifts, first of all the presence in our midst of Brother Pasquale, Franciscan Friar Minor and pastor of this parish.

In a place where the God of wealth and worldliness seems to reign-we are talking about the Vomero in Naples-we trust the plan that the God of love has for our small fraternity, committing ourselves to consistently live and witness what we profess with our lips “to add to faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge temperance, to temperance patience, to patience godliness, to godliness brotherly love, to brotherly love charity” (2 Pet. 1:5-7).

Everyone is invited ‘to the party.

To our brothers in the other fraternities of the Magnificat Community, we ask them to accompany and support us with constant and intense intercessory prayer.”

May the Virgin of the Magnificat protect the project that the heavenly Father is so wisely and mercifully carrying out.