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Aurelio ittra lill – Fratellanza ta ‘Malta, Ottubru 2014 (Maltese)

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Qalb aħwa,

xorta miegħi l-kulur u dawl ta ‘ Malta fl-ritorn lejn ix-xogħol u normali ta ‘kuljum Nazareth aħħar ġimgħa universali komuni tagħna. Li Nazareth aħna tgħallimna mill-Evanġelju u mill-messaġġ universali ta ‘Brother Charles: aħna jidentifikaw ruħhom mal-ħidma għar-Renju fejn ninsabu, bl-età għandna, mal-forzi li għandhom, fl-affarijiet żgħar u insinifikanti u jirrispondu għal sejħiet kuljum nirċievu minn Alla u l-poplu.

malta-oct-2014-1Grazzi talli lili u smajt, għal teħid me post fostkom. Speċjali grazzi għall Joseph FSADNI għal xogħol iebes tagħhom fil-koordinazzjoni kollu biex issir din repli u dan il-ġbir ta ‘fratellanza vera, biex jieħdu me u jġibu me up u ‘l isfel u jinkwetaw dwar kull brother.

malta-oct-2014-2Grazzi li Charlò CAMILLERI, ocarm., ċċettjaw għall tagħtina filgħodu u filgħaxija sempliċiment jistudjaw esperjenza tagħhom ta ‘l-ispiritwalità ta’ Charles de FOUCAULD u Teresa ta ‘Lisieux, fl-ispirtu missjunarju li jidentifika kemm bil-messaġġ universali.

Qatt m’hu tard wisq biex tibda; aħna qatt ser jaħlux ħin tiegħek jekk aħna let Alla jkun żmien malta-oct-2014-3tagħna:fil-żgħar, fil-ħidma umli, fis servizz lill-persuni li għandhom bżonn l-appoġġ tagħna, smigħ tagħna u l-qawwa tagħna biex jgħinu jiktbu ħajjithom bil-ferħ u tama. Ħin hija rigal minn Alla li aħna jamministraw. Agħti dak iż-żmien lill-oħrajn huwa investiment tajjeb. L-esperjenza fraternità għandek huwa approvazzjoni ta ‘dak iż-żmien minfuqa tajjeb. Dan huwa valur li ma tfittex li ma jipprovdix kurrikulu jew il-pożizzjoni soċjali u ekkleżjali rilevanti. Kultant naħsbu li fil-futur ma nafux kif se jkun; preżenti tagħna huwa dak li jgħodd, kemm għalina u għal Alla. X’inhu l-futur ta ‘fraternità tagħna, jekk aħna anzjani? Fil-idejn ta ‘Alla huwa.

malta-oct-2014-4I rċeviet dwar iż-żjara tiegħi għall-seminarju sinjal ewlieni ta ‘tama. Jimmy huwa ħabib tal-fraternità huwa rettur tajba. Xhieda tiegħu fost seminaristi u x-xogħol tiegħu fosthom jistħoqqilha attenzjoni sħiħa tiegħi. Tajba biex jimmaturaw l-idea qamet li torganizza ġimgħa ta ‘Nazaret mal-seminaristi li huma interessati fil-kariżma tal Charles de FOUCAULD, li jixtiequ jkunu jafu aktar dwar il-ispiritwalità li jgħaqqadna u l-mod mill-Evanġelju bħala familji jippruvaw malta-oct-2014-5FOUCAULD jgħixu. Ħafna seminaristi waslet għall-seminar mmarkata minn linja pastorali u spiritwali konkreta; huwa la miksur u lanqas joħolqu tikketti ġodda. Huwa faqar tagħna tipprovdi qassis djoċesan teħtieġ ispiritwalità li jidentifika mal-missjoni ta ‘Ġesù. U stil ta ‘ħajja li jagħmel inti tkun ħbieb ma’ sħabhom u tiftaħ qalbek fir-reviżjoni ħajja. A ispiritwalità deżert u l-ispiritwalita li jagħmel qima żmien ta ‘grazzja u l-ħbiberija ma’ Ġesù. A ispiritwalità li tgħin biex f’tim, biex jagħmlu l-kompiti pastorali konġunti, involviment mad-dinja u l-ħajja ta ‘l-, bħala fqar, klassi mhux bħala dropouts foqra.

Dawn u sfidi oħra huma dawk nistgħu jipperċepixxu minn dak li aħna u nagħmlu, mill-istorja personali tagħna u jitlob mill-qalb tal-fraternità.

malta-oct-2014-6Grazzi kollha talli hekk.

Il jħaddnu ta brother ftit tiegħek

Aurelio, responsabbli brother

Perín, Cartagena, Murcia, Spanja, 15 ottubru 2014,

Teresa ta ‘Ġesù, mate ruħ Ġesù

PDF: Aurelio ittra lill-fratellanza ta’Malta, ottubru 2014, maltese

Letter of Aurelio to the Fraternity of Malta, October 2014

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Dear brothers,

still he accompanies the color and the light of Malta in the return on the work and the normality of every day on our universal Nazareth shared last week. This Nazareth that we learned from the Gospel and from the universal message of the brother Charles: he identifies us with the work for the Kingdom there where we are, with the age that we have, with the forces which we have, in the small and insignificant things and in the response to the calls that every day we receive of God and of the persons.

malta-oct-2014-1Thousand graces for having taken refuge and listened, for doing a site to me between you.Thank you specially to Joseph FSADNI for his great effort in the coordination of everything, for to make possible this retirement and this meeting of real brotherhood, for removing and to bring me above and below and for worrying for every brother.

malta-oct-2014-2Thanks to Charlò CAMILLERI, ocarm., for giving itself in the morning and evening of a simple way his experience of study of the spirituality of Charles de FOUCAULD and of Teresa de Lisieux, in this missionary spirit that identifies both with a universal message.

It is never late to begin; we are never going to lose the time if we allow that God should be our time: in the small thing, in the humble work, in the service to the people who needs malta-oct-2014-3from our support, our scout and our hand to help to write his lives, with happiness and hope. The time is a God’s gift that we administer. Have time to the others is a good investment. The experience of fraternity that you have is an endorsement of this well used time. It is a value that does not shine, that does not provide curriculum or social position and eclesial relevant. We think sometimes about a future that we do not even know how it is going to be; our present is what counts, so much for us as for God. Which is the future of our fraternity, if already we are old? In the God’s hands it is.

malta-oct-2014-4I received in my visit to the seminar an important sample of hope. Jimmy is a friend of the fraternity, is a good rector. His testimony between the seminarians and his work between them deserves all my attention. It is good to mature the idea arisen of organizing a Week of Nazareth with the seminarians who are interested for Charles de FOUCAULD charisma, which they want to know more closely the spirituality than us joins and the way from the Gospel like FOUCAULD’s families we try to live. Many seminarians come to the seminar marked by malta-oct-2014-5a pastoral and spiritual concrete line; It is a question not neither of break labels nor to create new others. It is a question of offering from our poverty that a diocesan priests needs from a spirituality that he identifies him with Jesus’ mission. And it forms a of life that him makes be a friend of companions and to open his heart in the review of life. A spirituality of the desert and a spirituality that does of the adoration a moment of grace and of friendship with Jesus. A spirituality that helps to the teamwork, to realizing jointly the pastoral tasks, which he compromises with the world and the life of the poorest, as poor, not as deserters of social class.

These and other challenges are those that we can perceive from what we are and do, from our personal history and from the calls in the heart of the fraternity.

malta-oct-2014-6Thanks to all for being like that.

A hug of your little brother

Aurelio, responsible brother

Perín, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, 15 october 2014,

Teresa of Jesus, best friend of Jesus

(Sorry my Spanglish)

PDF: Letter of Aurelio to the fraternity of Malta, october 2014, english

 

INTERNATIONAL TEAM, SEPTEMBER 2014

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Dear brothers,

Manahoana? (How is it going?) Salama! (Greetings!)

madagascar1We want to share our joy in being fraternity, coming from different cultures, welcomed by Felix in Madagascar, and we share our experience of work in Antananarivo and Mahajanga through what we have lived with the Little Sisters of the Gospel in a pmadagascar2oor neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital, in our visit with the Malagasy priest fraternity in Amborovy, and in our sharing in the closing of the National Assembly of the Spiritual Families of Charles de FOUCAULD.  Adoration, celebration, and opening our hearts to be read by others and being able to read the hearts of others– all this has made it possible for us to feel like a fraternity in the Carmel of Amborovy where the Carmelite sisters have treated us as family.

madagascar3Thanks to Felix we have been able to live these days as “a Nazareth,” close to the people, who each day have gifted us with a smile and a greeting.  The message of Pope Francis has been present in our meeting and has helped us value the Word of God as the animator of our fraternity, remembering the 50th anniversary of Dei Verbum in 2015.

madagascar4We have reviewed the fraternities in 5 continents—the priest fraternity is present in 43 countries– where Br. Charles’ charism and message of universal brotherhood is like the gospel that we breathe.  We appreciate the impulse of the fraternity in Asia toward an ever-improving  coordination and communication; the Month of Nazareth in France, Brasil, Chile, Cameroon and Ireland this past year, great news that we can’t hide in a box; the call to dialogue with Islam in Europe, Africa and Asia–one Father who desires understanding between his sons and daughters and doesn’t desire to be the cause of separation and conflict; we trust that the upcoming meeting in July 2015 in Viviers, France madagascar6for priests who live and work with Muslims will be a great help in uniting us in mutual respect and not separating us; we observe new problems in communication due to long distances or due to being overworked and we wish that our website www.iesuscaritas.org would be a point of communication for all so that we can communicate in a fast and practical way, and we hope that each document about Charles de FOUCAULD would be known among us; we celebrate all that has been lived in the assemblies of the United States, in Colorado Springs, Colorado,  of Africa, in Kribi, Cameroon, and of Europe, in Verona, Italy, receiving from the brothers their impressions and happiness.

The recognition of our priestly fraternity as a Pontifical Right is getting closer and has received a good response and we await good results from the actions that are being taken in the Congregation for the Clergy through brothers close to the Fraternity.

madagascar5For the 100th anniversary of the Easter of Brother Charles we don’t propose general criteria for the celebration; we know that in each continent, country, diocese, parish or local fraternity the event will be organized as Family.  All of these should be celebrations in the style of Nazareth, far from expressions of triumphalism and showiness.

madagascar7We have reviewed our finances.  The balance of our international account is fragile.  We remind each country that fraternity is also sharing our financial goods, especially to help develop the Month of Nazareth and assemblies in Asia, Africa and America,  to help the international team to be present when requested and also to support our annual council meeting. Misaotra betsaka, thank you very much, for your generosity.  We appreciate greatly your efforts for this sharing.

madagascar8There are three important calls that we perceive in our lives as priestly fraternities:  the day in the desert, as a monthly priority, as a time of listening, leaving everything behind; the review of life as a time spent with the brothers, reflecting on their feelings, projects, problems, their interior life, their processes, and how they also would reflect and help us; the promise in each fraternity to make progress in mutual support, as a family helps its own, in the practicalities of life, without becoming spiritually detached, to know how to share in a project, work as a team or take a stand on a social or human issue.  We believe that this is part of the dream of Charles de FOUCAULD, seeing the living Jesus, crucified and risen, in each man and woman, the living Jesus who contemplates and loves us as we contemplate and love him in daily adoration of the Eucharist.

madagascar9We decided that our next meeting will be in Spain, in Aurelio’s home from the 20th to the 29th of October 2015. We are already beginning to prepare our hearts and our backpacks.

A big fraternal embrace from the team, trusting in your help in prayer,

 madagascar10Jean-francois, Emmanuel, Félix, Mark, Mauricio and Aurelio

Amborovy, Madagascar, 11 September 2014, the day of our return

PDF: LETTER FROM AMBOROVY, international team, 2014, english

EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY IN VERONA 2014

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MESSAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY IN VERONA 20th-27th August ’14

We send you warmest greetings from the magnificent setting of Sezano near Verona where, surrounded by vines and olive trees, our assembly brought together, from 20th to 27th August, 19 delegates from 10 countries representing 1600 members of our fraternities in Europe. The following are some of the main conclusions we want to share with you.

1. We are walking with the Church through changing times:

– our Churches in Europe are facing the religious indifference of their people, either because these have gradually lapsed from their faith or because they are ignorant of the basics of Christianity. The Church has been relegated to the margins of society.
– our societies themselves have been shaken by the assaults of financial capitalism that has neither regard for human values nor care for the environment.
– the reality of migration in search of work or asylum and the growing presence of Islam in our societies are a challenge and sometimes a cause for concern.
– the style and the gestures of Pope Francis give us new heart and summon us back to the simplicity of the Gospel.

2. As priests walking with the Church in new situations, we rediscover the relevance of the charism of Br. Charles de Foucauld

– his passion for God led him to put Christ at the centre and to make God’s Word in the Scriptures his essential food.
– his discovery of the saving implications of the hidden life of Jesus in Nazareth led him to a life of great simplicity and closeness to the poor.
– his passion for the Gospel ‘to be cried aloud with the whole of his life’ led him to give priority to encounters, conversations, friendships and the duty of understanding the other person’s culture as a way to mission.
– he anticipated some of the great intuitions of the Second Vatican Council which point the way for our Church today: the Word of God (Dei Verbum), the Eucharist as source and summit (Sacrosanctum Concilium), the mission and the mystery of the Church (Lumen Gentium), human beings to be loved (Gaudium et Spes).

3. In the footsteps of Br Charles, we feel called to boldly take the road Pope Francis is showing the Church.

– called to be rooted in Christ so that our lives re-echo the Gospel.
– called to play our part in being a Church that ‘goes forth’ and becomes more missionary.
– called to give first place to encounter, dialogue, listening to others (especially muslims) and so draw close to those on the different ‘margins’.
– called to keep a simple life-style, making us accessible to the poor, close to the people and ‘smelling of the sheep’.
– called to keep our hearts open to the joys and sorrows of our vast world, attentive to the work of the Holy Spirit.
– called as fraternities to be an influence for unity in our presbyterates, marked by diverse pastoral options and the presence of priests from other countries.

During the assembly we were filled with joy and thanksgiving for the presence among us of our brother Gianantonio Allegri, recently set free after 57 days of captivity in the hands of Boko Haram. He recounted this terrifying episode which also turned out to be ‘the treasure hidden in the field’.

We listened to the experience of the fraternities in French-speaking Africa which had just held their Month of Nazareth. Here was an invitation to strengthen our ties with fraternities of different continents which can teach us much in the face of common concerns like the dialogue with Islam and how to establish fraternity in a context of violence.

Sharing too with other visitors from the wider family of Charles de Foucauld (lay, religious men and women) brought home the importance of keeping in touch. Br. Charles considered the role of the laity as vital in evangelization.

Finally, a visit/pilgimage to the monument on Monte Grappa commemorating the 25,000 soldiers from all over Europe who lost their lives there during World War 1 came as a call to our fraternities to work tirelessly for peace at a time when ‘the senseless massacre of war’ (Pope Benedict XV in 1917) is again at the gates of Europe. (Ukraine, Middle
East)