{"id":20529,"date":"2024-08-23T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/2024\/08\/23\/what-the-spirit-says-to-the-churches\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:27:34","slug":"what-the-spirit-says-to-the-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/what-the-spirit-says-to-the-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"“What the Spirit says to the Churches.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the presentation on Saturday, Oct. 8<\/strong>, 2022, at 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>, from the Shrine of Caravaggio – Santa Maria del Fonte<\/em>, all members of the Magnificat Community begin their journey of growth, dedicated to reflecting on four of the seven letters to the Churches of Revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The presentation will be offered by the General Managers as part of the Community Day of the Tent of God<\/em> Zone, which brings together the Fraternities of Northern Italy.\nThe event will be videoconferenced on Zoom with simultaneous translation in English, Romanian and Turkish. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the text of the Presentation of the Way<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear brothers and sisters!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With<\/strong> this year’s journey<\/strong>, we are listening to the Holy Spirit to enter into a process of change and purification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will make this journey <\/strong>through the letters the Spirit dictates to St. John for the Churches of Ephesus, Pergamum, Sardis and Laodicea collected in the book of Revelation.\nThese four churches will mirror us with their strengths and weaknesses, with their achievements and frailties, with the battles they will have to face in order not to lose their faith.\nThey will teach us the struggle of going against the tide and the effort of perseverance for the custody of holy things.\nThey will tell us how to struggle and how not to lose the power of Love, because only those who know how to resist also know how to hope, build and preserve a full life, a beautiful life, a happy life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Blessed are those who read and blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep the things that are written in it: for the time is at hand<\/strong><\/em>“(Revelation<\/em> 1:3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore<\/strong>, rather than stages to be read, this journey, will be an experience to be lived.\nIf we know how to listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying, we will also be able to take steps of re-surrection<\/em>, re-construction<\/em> and re-conciliation<\/em>, that is, re-birth<\/em>, both personal and communal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help <\/strong>this renewal process, we wanted to read these ancient churches in light of our Four<\/em> Covenant Promises<\/em>.\nPromises that not only allies but also all friends of the Community can take as a reference for a richer and more fruitful Christian life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church of Ephesus <\/strong>is a persevering community that struggles for the integrity of doctrine but, over time, has lost fraternal tenderness.\nIt will make us reflect on how to practice and guard our promise of love building<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the Church in Pergamum<\/strong> is a secularizing reality that experiences divisions and contentions within itself.\nThese quarrels are a consequence of the watering down of the Gospel and will lead us to reason about the value and necessity of permanent forgiveness<\/strong><\/em> as an indispensable tool for growing unity in truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church of Sardis<\/strong> is a community engaged in many beautiful works, but all self-reflexive and self-referential, soulless.\nThis complacent and outward-looking Church will push us to go to the substance of our promise of service<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the Church of Laodicea<\/strong>, which is lukewarm, static and personality-less, opens us up to the truth about ourselves: it tells me who I am as a Christian and what is in my heart, so that I can set out on the path of poverty<\/em><\/strong> in full consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today as<\/strong> then, the Church, the bride of Christ, sets out to follow the Amen, the Bridegroom who speaks to her and invites her to clothe herself with all grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the<\/strong> Church and for the Church we in the Magnificat also want to respond promptly to the cry of the Spirit who repeats to us, Come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, <\/strong>we hope to be a community faithful to the Bridegroom and His Church, a living and fruitful community, an ever-open building site-the building site of Love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!”\nAnd whoever hears, repeat, “Come!” <\/strong><\/em>He who thirsts, let him come; he who wants, let him take the water of life free of charge<\/strong><\/em>“.(Revelation <\/em>22:17)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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