ROME - Final Approval. Nearly a year after the expiry of five years of experimentation, now is the final go-ahead for the Statute of the Neocatechumenal: its decree of the Pontifical Council for the Laity - the document which bears the date 11 May last, the solemnity of Pentecost - will be delivered tomorrow, June 13, members of the international responsible team Neocatechumenal. Upon delivery, which will be held at the Great Hall of the Vatican department, will attend the one hand, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and the other founders Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez, together with Father Mario Pezzi . There will be a first group of itinerant catechists of the Way. After delivery, once made known the final text of the Statute, it will be possible to evaluate the content and the differences from previous versions. In the afternoon, in that regard, there will be a press conference Kiko, Carmen and Father Mario Pezzi.
The news is official approval of a statement issued by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. "The final approval of the Statute of the Neocatechumenal - it said - is, of course, an important milestone in the life of this ecclesial reality, built in Spain in 1964, this act has required numerous consultations at various levels." "During the period of experimentally for approval of the Statute of the Way - continues the statement - the Pontifical Council for the Laity has been able to see the many fruits that the Neocatechumenal since his birth, brings to the Church in view of the new evangelization, through a catechetical-liturgical practices accepted and valued - now in its forty years - in many Particular Churches. Therefore, after careful review of the bylaws and the introduction of some changes that are deemed necessary, the Pontifical Council for the Laity has come to grant final approval of the Statute. "
The note of the Vatican department continues recalling the most recent stages of the path that led to the approval: "In an audience granted to the members of the Neocatechumenal January 12, 2006, the Holy Father Benedict XVI said:" Your action will lie at the heart of the Apostolic Church, in total harmony with her directives and in communion with the particular Churches in which you are going to operate, making the most la ricchezza dei carismi che il Signore ha suscitato attraverso gli iniziatori del Cammino». Più recentemente, il 17 maggio scorso - continua il comunicato vaticano – durante l’udienza in occasione di un seminario di studio per vescovi, organizzato dal Pontificio Consiglio per i Laici, il Papa affermava che «i movimenti ecclesiali e le nuove comunità sono una delle novità più importanti suscitate dallo Spirito Santo nella Chiesa per l’attuazione del Concilio Vaticano II», e volle ricordare come i servi di Dio Paolo VI e Giovanni Paolo II «seppero accogliere e discernere, incoraggiare e promuovere l’imprevista irruzione delle nuove realtà laicali che, in forme varie e sorprendenti, ridonavano vitalità, faith and hope to the whole Church. " Referring to the words addressed to a group of German bishops in ad Limina visit, urging them: "I ask you to meet the movements with great love" (November 18, 2006), Benedict XVI wanted to add, among other considerations, "we Pastors are asked to accompany a close, with fatherly concern, so friendly and knowledgeable, the movements and new communities so that they can generously put at the service of the common, in an orderly and productive, the many gifts they bring and we have come to know and appreciate: the missionary impulse, the effective routes of Christian formation, the testimony of loyalty and obedience alla Chiesa, la sensibilità ai bisogni dei poveri, la ricchezza di vocazioni».
“In questa prospettiva - è la chiusura del comunicato emesso dal Pontificio Consiglio per i Laici - è da auspicare che lo Statuto del Cammino Neocatecumenale, approvato adesso in forma definitiva, possa essere un valido strumento al servizio di questa realtà ecclesiale, affinché essa continui a contribuire al bene di tutta la Chiesa”.
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