{"id":4995,"date":"2020-03-24T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/words-of-the-popes\/s-john-paul-ii\/visit-to-the-parish-of-san-basilio-3-10-1979\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:44:32","slug":"visit-to-the-parish-of-san-basilio-3-10-1979","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/words-of-the-popes\/s-john-paul-ii\/visit-to-the-parish-of-san-basilio-3-10-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the parish of San Basilio 3-10-1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visit to the parish of San Basilio 3-10-1979<\/h1>\n\n
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St. John Paul II<\/h4>\n\n
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Rome, March 10, 1979<\/p>\n\n

Presentation of the parish priest Don Carmelo:<\/em> \n“Holy Father, here you find gathered four Neocatechumenal Communities. \nThe communities are based on a tripod: listening to the Word \nof God which is done on Wednesday and the Eucharistic celebration on \nSaturday. The celebration of the Word is prepared in groups. Later, it is founded \non the second pillar which is the Eucharist, after a profound catechesis \non the Eucharistic mystery. The third pillar is life in the \ncommunity, in the convivences; they come to live in the community a \ncommunal life, not just life in common. Of these four communities, the \nfirst was born four years ago and then, year after year, \nthe rest. Here is the catechist who came the first time, \nGioacchino.”<\/p>\n\n

Gioacchino addressing the Holy Father said:<\/em> \n“Holy Father, all of us gathered here are happy to have you \nin our midst, to welcome you in the ‘Name of the Lord’, as ‘he who \ncomes in the Name of the Lord.’ We want to express to you, I on behalf of all \nthese brothers, the great joy of being able to discover, in this \nNeocatechumenal Way, the Church as our Mother, who little by little is bringing us to rediscover our Baptism. We feel an immense gratitude to the Lord and to the Church because this Way is helping us greatly to\u00a0feel the Lord Jesus Christ alive and present and in our life \nand to create fraternal communion. We thank the Church – and you who in our midst make it particularly present and alive-\u00a0 for making this great gift of rediscovering our Baptism. Now, as you invite us to continuously do, we sing …”<\/p>\n\n

“That is why we sing: Death is swallowed up in victory!” \u00bb<\/p>\n\n

These are the words that the Pope spontaneously spoke:<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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“From all the words that you have said, the most important is that of \nrediscovery. Many think they know everything about: the Church, Christ, the Gospel, God … they know everything but they have nothing to discover. They have taught it to us in school, so school is enough; then we forget, but we know everything. However, everything is to be \nrediscovered\u2026 Only the faith that knows how to discover itself, its \ncontent, its fundamental attitude, is the dynamic faith. For the Church and \nfor the people of God it is necessary the dynamic faith that attempts to discover, that knows how to find itself.<\/p>\n\n

I wish for you to go forward on the way you have started, that \nyou discover more and more the mystery of the Church, the mystery of \nChrist, the mystery of God. This discovery leads us to \nourselves: since the mystery of Christ, the mystery of the Church \ncan only be explained inside of ourselves. I can’t live without the \nChurch, without understanding that which I am, without understanding myself. There is \na very joyous, very positive effort and I wish for you to persevere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visit to the parish of San Basilio 3-10-1979 St. John Paul II Rome, March 10, 1979 Presentation of the parish priest Don Carmelo: “Holy Father, here you find gathered four Neocatechumenal Communities. The communities are based on a tripod: listening to the Word of God which is done on Wednesday and the Eucharistic celebration on Saturday. The celebration of the Word is prepared in groups. Later, it is founded on<\/p>\n

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