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Kungress tal-Kardinali, l-Isqfijiet Franāiskani u d-Definitorju Āenerali Bejn it-18 u l-22 ta’ Āunju 2007, proprju l-għada taŜ-Ŝjara tal-Papa Benedittu XVI, f’Assisi, il-Ministru Āeneral u d-Definitorju ħadu sehem f’ Kungress mal-Kardinali u l-Isqfijiet Franāiskani. Għal dan ’il-kungress talfamilja’, kif sejjaħlu l-Ministru Āeneral fid-diskors ta’ merħba, ħadu sehem ukoll Mons. Sylvester Magro, OFM u Mons. Robert Camilleri, OFM. F’din ilħarāa qegħdin nippublikaw l-omelija li saret mill-Ministru Āeneral u iddiskorsi tal-Vigarju Āenerali Fra Francesco Bravi, OFM u Fra Vincenzo Braconelli, OFM . Fil-ħarāa li jmiss se nippublikaw id-diskors li għamel l-ex-Āeneral Fra Herman Schaluck, OFM. Il-Kardinali u l-Isqifijiet Franāiskani flimkien mad-Definitorju Āenerali quddiem il-Porzuiucola. Fit-truf jidhru iŜ-Ŝewā isqfijiet Maltin, Mons. Sylvester Magro, OFM u Mons. Robert Camilleri, OFM. L-A{BAR LULJU - AWISSU 2007 16 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com
Minister General, Br. José Rodríguez Carballo, OFM Porziuncola, 19 th June 2007 LET US DARE TO LIVE THE GOSPEL Your Eminences, Excellencies, dear Brothers in the Seraphic Father, “May the Lord give you peace!” (Test 13). With these words of greeting, revealed to Francis by the Most High, I also greet you, my dear Brother Cardinals and Bishops of the Order of Friars Minor and I fraternally welcome you with them in the name of the Poverello of Assisi and of the Friars Minor of the Franciscan Province of Umbria, the custodians of this holy place. You are all welcome to this place, loved above all others by Francis, a true “lover and imitator” of the Lord (TestCl 5), for being the place privileged and blessed by the presence of the Mother, “the full of grace” (Lk 1, 28), the “servant of the Most High and supreme King and of our Father in heaven, the Mother of our Most Holy Lord Jesus Christ, spouse of the Holy Spirit” (Antiphon, Of. Prs.), the “Virgin made Church” (SalBVM 1). “I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house’” (Ps 121, 1). Overflowing joy was the sentiment which animated the pilgrimage he undertook in “going up” to Jerusalem, sure of finding in the Holy City the peace for which his heart yearned and the good which he ardently desired. It is that same joy which we Franciscans feel on coming to this holy place, restored by the hands of Francis (1Cel 21), where he established his abode during the third year of his conversion, and where the Order of Friars Minor began. To return to the Porziuncola is, for us Franciscans, like returning home: here we were born and here we return every time we wish to recall our origins and to refresh the memory of our vocation and mission. The Porziuncola could well be called, among other titles, the sanctuary of the Gospel and of the evangelical response to it by Francis. Here there continues to echo strongly the radical invitation which Jesus made to His first disciples one day and which the young Francis heard as if addressed to himself: “Provide yourselves with no gold or silver, not even a few coppers for your purses, with no haversack for the journey or spare tunic or footwear or a staff…” (Mt 10, 9-10). Here there continues to echo the joyful and ever young response of Francis to the Gospel text heard on the feast of St. Matthias: “This is what I want, this is what I seek, this is what I desire with all my heart” (1Cel 22). Dear Brothers: In the light of this response which Francis made 800 years ago, and in the light of what we promised on the day of our profession on assuming the Gospel as our “Rule and life” and, as such, to follow it more closely by observing it faithfully (Cf. GGCC 5,2), it is urgent that we ask ourselves: What have we done with the Gospel? Is it really the source of life in our life as it was in the life of Francis and of many Friars of the past and present? Are its demands the fundamental criteria for us at the time of making concrete options in our life? L-A{BAR LULJU - AWISSU 2007 17 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com
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