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Neo-catechumenate Way
Topic Started: Friday, 9. May 2008, 20:11 (1,723 Views)
Rose of York
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http://www.news.va/en/news/holy-father-meets-with-members-of-neo-catechumenal

HOLY FATHER MEETS WITH MEMBERS OF NEO-CATECHUMENAL WAY
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VATICAN CITY, 20 JAN 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience more than 7,000 members of the Neo-Catechumenal Way. During the course of the ceremony, the Holy Father sent out seventeen new "ad gentes" missions of the Way: twelve to Europe, four to America and one to Africa. Each mission is made up of three or four large families, members of the Neo-Catechumenal Way who, accompanied by a priest, go to live in an area where Christian practise has lapsed or where the Gospel has never been announced.


The report gives extracts from Pope Benedict's address. He made some complimentary remarks and ended with
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"Precisely in order to foment a renewal of the richness of sacramental life among people who have distanced themselves from the Church, or who have not received adequate formation, the members of the Neo-Catechumenal Way can celebrate the Sunday Eucharist in small communities".
"Celebration in small communities, regulated by the books of the liturgy which must be accurately followed, and with the particular features approved in the Statutes of the Way, helps the followers of the Neo-Catechumenal Way to perceive the grace of being part of Christ's salvific mystery. ... At the same time the progressive maturity in faith of individuals and small communities must favour their insertion into the life of the ecclesial community as a whole, which has its ordinary form in the liturgical celebrations in parishes, in which and for which the neo-catechumenate is implemented.
"Yet even during the journey it is important not to separate oneself from the parish community, and particularly in the celebration of the Eucharist which is the true place of universal unity, where the Lord embraces us in our various states of spiritual maturity and unites us in the one bread that makes us one body".
In conclusion the Holy Father thanked the neo-catechumens for their expressions of affection and asked them to remember him in their prayers.


The Tablet has quite a lengthy article about the Neo Catechumens. They do seem to be rather a closed cult. On Saturday evenings the have a Mass reserved for themselves then attend the parish Mass on Sunday. "A community is formed when a group of people embark on a programme of catechesis called the Neo-Catechumenal Way. It is a course that can take 20 or more years to complete. Led by a catechist, it is marked by six successive stages, culminating in the renewal of the promises of baptism, usually at the Easter Vigil. A priest is said always to be present during the catechesis."

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/6528
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I think the best place for the Neo-Cats is in their 'own' Mass.

Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.

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Anne-Marie

CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
I think the best place for the Neo-Cats is in their 'own' Mass.
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
And there was me thinking you were a Traditionalist, Carlo!
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Tuesday, 24. January 2012, 10:57
CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
I think the best place for the Neo-Cats is in their 'own' Mass.
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
And there was me thinking you were a Traditionalist, Carlo!
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One doesn't waste one's time reading yesterday's papers Anna Maria!

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CARLO have I got it right? Regarding the Neo-Cats do you regard liturgy like tailored suits? A well tailored suit in classic style never goes out of fashion. A suit made to the latest trendy fad is old hat (despite being a suit, not a hat) within the year.

I think the NeoCatechumenal Way will be a flash in the pan, here today, gone tomorrow.
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CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
Good point, Carlo. This idea of "ordinary" Christians going out into the community to spread the Good News among the great unwashed of the Middle East and Europe might have had some merit a couple of thousand years ago but is hardly appropriate for the sophisticates of modern society.

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Wednesday, 25. January 2012, 01:09
Anne-Marie
Tuesday, 24. January 2012, 10:57
CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
I think the best place for the Neo-Cats is in their 'own' Mass.
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
And there was me thinking you were a Traditionalist, Carlo!
:wall:
One doesn't waste one's time reading yesterday's papers Anna Maria!

:smoker:

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Only yesteryear's missals.
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Mairtin
Wednesday, 25. January 2012, 09:51
CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
Good point, Carlo. This idea of "ordinary" Christians going out into the community to spread the Good News among the great unwashed of the Middle East and Europe might have had some merit a couple of thousand years ago but is hardly appropriate for the sophisticates of modern society.

:angel:
I am not sure what you mean by 'the great unwashed' ?

Is this a 'Neo-Cat' term?

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Wednesday, 25. January 2012, 23:40
CARLO
Wednesday, 25. January 2012, 01:09
Anne-Marie
Tuesday, 24. January 2012, 10:57
CARLO
Monday, 23. January 2012, 22:28
I think the best place for the Neo-Cats is in their 'own' Mass.
Happy to leave them alone - I still consider to them to be increasingly 'old hat'.
And there was me thinking you were a Traditionalist, Carlo!
:wall:
One doesn't waste one's time reading yesterday's papers Anna Maria!

:smoker:

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CARLO
Only yesteryear's missals.
:rofl:

Touche!

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Wednesday, 25. January 2012, 01:36
CARLO have I got it right? Regarding the Neo-Cats do you regard liturgy like tailored suits? A well tailored suit in classic style never goes out of fashion. A suit made to the latest trendy fad is old hat (despite being a suit, not a hat) within the year.

I think the NeoCatechumenal Way will be a flash in the pan, here today, gone tomorrow.
Yes not bad Rose.

I fear the Neo-Cats flashed in the pan some years ago without making a great impact.

I doubt there is anything much left to flash now!

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Convinced that Christ is present in the suffering of the poorest of people and inspired by the example of Charles de Foucauld, Argüello abandoned his studies and career as a painter. Taking only his guitar, crucifix and Bible, he left to live amongst the poor in a wooden shack in Palomeras Altas, a slum on the outskirts of Madrid.


A movement with such a beginning is not likely to fade away

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Gerard

Rose of York
Sunday, 22. January 2012, 20:24
On Saturday evenings the have a Mass reserved for themselves then attend the parish Mass on Sunday.

I am fairly sure this Saturday evening Mass is open to everyone and is the Mass of Sunday.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Marts

Benedict XVI has instigated an investigation into the Mass according to the rite of the Neocatechumenal Way and the results so far do not look good for the Way.

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350217?eng=y
Jesus told us, his disciples, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13)
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Marts
Thursday, 12. April 2012, 04:06
Benedict XVI has instigated an investigation into the Mass according to the rite of the Neocatechumenal Way and the results so far do not look good for the Way.

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350217?eng=y
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