{"id":2860,"date":"2026-07-11T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/evangelizacion\/communities-in-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:54:54","slug":"communities-in-mission","status":"publish","type":"evangelizacion","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/evangelization\/communities-in-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities in mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\n\n\n\n

Communities in mission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In the \nmeeting with Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 10, 2009, \nfor the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the first \nneocatechumenal community in Rome, the first 15 communities \n were sent by the Holy Father to the periferies of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These communities were willing to \nleave their parish – where they had already finished the neocatechumenal \nitinerary \u2013 to go in mission to difficult areas of the periphery \n at the invitation of the parish priests, degraded areas with a lot of violence, \ndrugs, destroyed families, newly arrived immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiko, presenting this new mission, noted that \u201cthe Way ends \nby announcing the Gospel throughout the world\u201d. \u201cOne of the biggest novelties \n is that the whole community goes on mission. Not that just some brothers go, but the whole \n community. It is a great grace and something wonderful that God \nsends you on this mission. It is great to be able to leave, that the Lord gives you a \nmission; die in the mission, grow old in the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precisely, Pope Francis in his encyclical Evangelii Gaudium<\/em> speaks of a Church “on the way out” and expresses the need to evangelize territorial and existential peripheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also the diocese of Madrid, where \nthe Way was born and is present in 45 parishes with 221 communities, \nspeaks of this experience. In 2011, the then Archbishop of Madrid, \nCardinal Rouco Varela sent the first 10 communities on mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current Archbishop of the capital of \nSpain, Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, in a meeting on March 22, 2015, \nsent out 8 new communities. In Madrid, there is a total of 18 communitates in missionem<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 5, 2018, \n for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the first community \nof the Way in Rome, in a great meeting in Tor Vergata, Pope Francis sent 25 \ncommunities in mission to various parishes in Rome to sustain and \nstrengthen the Christian life of parish communities that were \nmost deprived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today, in this “go” of Jesus, there are \npresent the ever new scenarios and challenges of the evangelizing \nmission of the Church, and we are all called to this new \nmissionary “departure”. Every Christian and every community will discern which \nis the way the Lord asks, but we are all invited to accept \nthis call: leave your own comfort and dare to reach all \nthe peripheries that need the light of the Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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