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Nitqaddsu fil-kumpannija ta’ xulxin
Waqt it-tielet u l-aħħar ġurnata tal-irtir spiritwali matul l-Assemblea ġenerali, l-ikona tat-Trinità Qaddisa kienet fil-qalba tal-meditazzjonijiet, riflessjonijiet u komunjoni. Kienet ippreżentata bħala mudell tal-“qdusija kollettiva” (Maria Voce) u ta’ rabtiet ta’ mħabba li jwasslu għall-“pjan t’Alla” fuq kull persuna (Claudio Guerrieri).
Ma tistagħġibx li t-talba ekumenika tal-bidu ġiet imħejjija minn Insara ta’ żewġ Knejjes Ortodossi, għax fit-tradizzjonijiet ta’ dawn hemm teżor kbir ta’ riflessjonijiet u kontemplazzjonijiet dwar it-Trinità Qaddisa.
Fil-meditazzjoni tagħha, Maria Voce, li waslet biex tħalli l-post tagħha bħala President tal-Fokolari, għal darb’oħra ġibdet l-attenzjoni dwar l-iskop ġenerali tal-Moviment: “il-perfezzjoni fil-karità”, kif kitbet Chiara Lubich. Dan ifisser li wieħed jasal għall-milja tiegħu nnifsu billi jagħti lilu nnifsu lill-oħrajn: xi ħaġa li f’termini forsi aktar klassiċi wieħed jista’ jagħti d-definizzjoni tagħha bħala qdusija. Iżda Maria Voce saħqet li l-qdusija tipika tal-Fokolari hi: “qdusija kollettiva”.
Biex fissret dan il-kunċett, il-President marret lura lejn l-istorja tal-bidu tal-Moviment fejn naraw lil Chiara u l-ewwel ħbieb tagħha jgħixu r-radikalità tal-Vanġelu, ħajja “għal Alla u għall-oħrajn – kif tispjega Chiara stess – fejn insejna kompletament lilna nfusna, u dak kollu li seta’ jwassalna biex nħarsu biss lejna nfusna”. B’hekk twieldet triq ta’qdusija ġdida “radikali u ħafifa, qdusija miftuħa għal kulħadd, mgħejxa flimkien fil-familja, fid-dinja ta’ madwarna”, qdusija fil-kumpannija tal-oħrajn. Din il-qdusija titlob li nisimgħu dak li Alla jrid minna personalment, iżda waqt li nagħmlu dan, nagħrfu li aħna ninsabu f’mixja flimkien ma’ oħrajn, anzi nħarsu lejn l-ieħor u lejn il-preżenza t’Alla fih.
Il-filosfu Taljan, Claudio Guerrieri, membru tal-Iskola Abba, iċ-ċentru ta’ studju tal-Moviment tal-Fokolari, kompla dawn ir-riflessjonijiet billi ffoka fuq l-effetti tal-“qdusija kollettiva”, li minnha joħroġ il-vera personalità ta’ kull wieħed, il-pjan t’Alla għal kull persuna. Dan l-aspett insibuh fil-kitbiet mistiċi ta’ Chiara Lubich fis-snin 1949/1950, li joffru mudell ta’ komunjoni u ta’ unità “li mhux uniformi, imma jħaddan fih pluralità ta’ ilħna, fejn kull wieħed jesprimi l-kollox bħala parti”. U dan jidher fil-fatt li fil-Moviment tal-Fokolari, barra Chiara Lubich, hemm żewġ ko-fundaturi oħra: Igino Giordani u Pasquale Foresi, li l-“pjan” tagħhom wassal għall-ftuħ u l-inkarnazzjoni tal-kariżma ta’ Chiara.
Hekk ġew fi tmiemhom it-tliet ijiem ta’ rtir profond, li f’xi waqt forsi setgħu wkoll skussaw xi ftit , iżda qanqlu bis-sħiħ biex wieħed jimmatura fl-għażliet. Waqt il-komunjoni li saret fl-aħħar, wieħed miż-żgħażagħ qal: “(Dawn il-ġranet) kienu okkażjoni biex nisimgħu lil xulxin u biex infittxu li nifhmu liema hi t-triq li l-Ispirtu s-Santu qed isejjaħ lill-Moviment tal-Fokolari biex jimxi fiha fiż-żmien li ġej, u f’idejn min għandna nafdaw it-mexxija tal-Opra fl-isfidi u l-opportunitajiet fis-sitt snin li ġejjien”.
Uffiċċju Komunikazzjoni tal-Moviment tal-Fokolari
Source: https://www.focolare.org/en/news/2021/01/27/saints-together/
Traduzzjoni bil-Malti: Vivienne Attard[:en]
Saints Together
At the heart of the meditations, the reflections, and the communion in this third and final day of the spiritual retreat of the General Assembly, is the icon of the Most Blessed Trinity. This was presented as the model of a “collective holiness” by Maria Voce and as relationships of love that bring out the “design of God” on every person by Claudio Guerrieri.
Christians from two Orthodox Churches
It wasn’t by chance that the ecumenical prayer at the beginning of the day was prepared by Christians from two Orthodox Churches, whose traditions include a huge treasure of reflections and contemplation of the Blessed Trinity.
Maria Voce
In her meditation, Maria Voce, who will soon be leaving her role as President of the Focolare, once more drew our attention to the general aim of the Movement: “the perfection in love”, as Chiara Lubich wrote. This means complete personal fulfillment through the giving of oneself to others; or using a more conventional expression it could be defined as holiness. But a holiness -as Maria Voce underlines- that is typical of the Focolare: a “Collective holiness”.
In order to explain this concept, the President retold the story of the beginning of the Movement where we saw Chiara with her first friends living the Gospel in a radical way. It was a life “for God and for the others -as Chiara herself explained – in a total forgetfulness of ourselves and of everything that could have made us fall into withdrawing into ourselves”. And so, a way to a new holiness was born, “both radical and light, a holiness that could be open to everyone, and could be achieved in the family, in the midst of the world, together”, a holiness in company with others. This is a holiness that always asks for a personal listening to what God wants but, to do this knowing that one is travelling with others, in fact looking at the other and the presence of God in him or her.
Claudio Guerrieri
The Italian philosopher, Claudio Guerrieri, member of the study center of the Focolare, the Abba School, continued these reflections, focusing on one of the effects of the “collective holiness”: what emerges from this is the true personality of each one, the plan or design of God on each person. This is an aspect that is very present in the mystical writings of Chiara Lubich from 1949/1950 which offer a model of communion and of unity, “not as uniformity, but that includes a plurality of voices in which each one, as a part, expresses the whole.” This can be seen by the fact that in the Focolare Movement, as well as Chiara Lubich, also two co-founders are present, Igino Giordani and Pasquale Foresi, who through their “designs” the charism of Chiara was opened up and became incarnate.
So, these three days of deep retreat have drawn to a close, at times maybe it was also a bit unsettling but full of ideas also for the decisions that have to develop. As one of the young people described in the final session of communion: “It’s been a moment for listening to one another and for trying to understand in what direction the Holy Spirit is calling the Focolare in this future period, and to whom to entrust the tasks for taking ahead this Work (of Mary) with the challenges and the opportunities that the next six years will present.”
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