FAMILLE MENNAISIENNE - MENNAISIAN FAMILY - FAMILIA MENESIANA

The General Council which held its October session in Rome resumed the orientations of the  General Chapter: "education, way of evangelization." We invite you all during this YEAR OF FAITH to find ways and means to live your faith, to know it better, to proclaim and celebrate it, not alone, but with others, especially with young people. The Bishops assembled in Synod received a letter, dated October 20, written by the youth of the School of Evangelization of the Community of Emmanuel in Rome. It can be read on the site www.zenit.org It is interesting to read a few lines: "We believe that youth is the future of the Church and plays an important role in the new evangelization." But we know that "many young people do not dare to express their faith in a loud voice, we rather whisper it, preferably in private" .... "Many young Catholics do not feel fully involved in the life of their Parish and express the need to belong to an outside group, commun...

Saint Dominique écoutant la Parole, sur une peinture de Fra Anglico.  Où rechercher la cause de notre cœur partagé sinon d'abord en nous-mêmes? Nous omettons souvent de nous en remettre au guide de notre vie intérieure. Nous comptons trop sur nos propres forces que, pourtant, nous savons si faibles. Nous avons beaucoup de difficultés à laisser le Saint-Esprit insuffler en nous sa vie, librement. Est-ce parce que nous n'y croyons pas assez ? Ou bien par crainte qu'il nous emmène trop loin ? C'est le même Esprit, en effet, qui est en nous lorsque nous prions à l'oratoire et qui anime notre activité apostolique, dans la relation éducative ou dans l'exercice de nos responsabilités. L'unité de vie suppose une entière réceptivité à ce que Dieu veut faire en nous. Nous avons besoin pour y parvenir de cet esprit de foi, de charité, d'abnégation et d'humilité auquel nous invite la Règle. Nous devons sans cesse réfréner ce " désir d'affirmation ...

Basilique Saint-Pierre - Ouverture de l'Année de la Foi - 11 octobre 2012 Basílica de San Pedro - Apertura del Año de la Fe - 11 de octubre de 2012 On this day when the Pope, in the presence of participants in the Synod on the New Evangelization, celebrated the entry into the Year of Faith, let us reread some calls to evangelize. "In the desert we need especially people of faith who, by their example, show the way to the Promised Land and thus keep awake the hope. Lived faith opens the heart to the grace of God that frees us from pessimism. Today, more than ever to evangelize means to give witness of a new life, transformed by God, and thus show the way.” The Pope said in his homily today. Through evangelization, what is proclaimed "is not information about God, but rather God himself made man", noted for his part, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, General Reporter for the Synod on the New Evangelization. Christians should show a new confide...