{"id":20099,"date":"2024-08-23T08:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/2024\/08\/23\/you-will-show-me-the-path-of-life\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:08:16","slug":"you-will-show-me-the-path-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/you-will-show-me-the-path-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"“You will show me the path of life.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2011-2012 beginning of the year retreat in Perugia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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We met for the beginning of the journey retreat at the Fonte Angelica Hotel, a beautiful place full of greenery and water, in Nocera Umbra.\nIt is the former seminary, now run by a cooperative.\nA Saturday and Sunday where we prepared for the new journey, officially started the community year and welcomed new novices and allies. <\/p>\n\n

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Saturday’s celebration was presided over by H.E. Bishop Giuseppe Chiaretti, who greeted us with much affection and warmly invited us to engage in the new evangelization.<\/em>\n“I have long known,” he told us, “that the witness of fervent communities is the most effective in attracting to Christ those who do not yet know him.” <\/p>\n\n

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Three catecheses, two moments of sharing, two beautiful community prayers, a night of adoration, the presentation of new novices and friends… What was needed to start the year.\nMassimo Roscini, Moderator General, gave us the “review” on the meaning of belonging: to an experience of the Spirit, charismatic, to the Community, to the Fraternity. <\/p>\n\n

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To belong means to want to bind oneself to something: but ours is a bond of love, to cherish love, not because we are a social group or because thus “we are many” and show something; but to be part of<\/em> a divine work, permeated with wonder and gratitude, filled with the respect that is due to beautiful and precious things.\nPaul Bartoccini, on Sunday morning, gave a beautiful catechesis (a bit long, actually :)) on the Holy Spirit, the engine of our spiritual life (when we have it, that is).\nOn the track of the Veni creator<\/em> we went over the Pentecostal experience that generated us.\nThis will be the path of 2011-2012, a song!\nAnd Vincenzo Genovese spoke to us about freedom, about the courage needed to defeat the “giants” that still dwell in our hearts and bar the path to the promised land. <\/p>\n\n

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The Lord spoke to us in prayer about rebirth from above, about being children being led:<\/p>\n\n

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Ps 16:11 You will show me the path of life,full joy in your presence,endless sweetness at your right hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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We concluded with Sunday’s celebration, presided over by Fr. Luca Bartoccini: one of those short homilies that gets to the heart, on the Gospel of the parable of the vinedressers (Mt 20:1ff).\nGod’s “injustice,” which is unfair only when we identify with the workers taken for merit early in the morning; but how fair does it seem to us, this injustice, if we are the last, those who enter the Kingdom of God by the skin of our teeth. <\/p>\n\n

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Happy walking to all!<\/p>\n\n

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