Vatican City, 27 February 2014 (VIS) –
This morning in the Sala Clementina of the Vatican Apostolic Palace,
the Holy Father received in audience the bishops who are friends of
the Focolare Movement, who have held a meeting during recent days on
the theme of “Mutual love among Christ's disciples”. The Pope
stated that as bishops, they are “called upon to bring to these
meetings the broad range of the Church, and to ensure that all they
receive is put to the benefit of the entire Church”.
“Today's society has a great need for
the testimony of a style of life, from which their transpires the
novelty offered to us by Lord Jesus: brothers who care for each other
in spite of their differences of character, origins, or age”, he
continued. “This testimony gives rise to the wish to be involved in
the great trajectory of communion that is the Church”.
In conclusion, Pope Francis recalled
the words of John Paul II in the Apostolic Letter “Novo Millennio
Ineunte”: “'To make the Church the home and the school of
communion' is truly fundamental for the efficacy of every commitment
to evangelisation, inasmuch as it reveals the deepest yearning of the
Father: that all His sons live as brothers; and it reveals the will
of Christ, that 'that all of them may be one'; and it reveals the
dynamism of the Holy Spirit, its free and liberating force of
attraction. Cultivating the spirituality of communion also
contributes to making us more able to walk the path of ecumenism and
interreligious dialogue”.
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