Yesterday evening there was a talk, and prayers, held by the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships at the Basilica Santa Maria in Montesanto , Piazza Popolo Rome. I happened to be passing there. I went into the Church for a little while.
The work of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships is appreciated. However like the woman whom I heard speaking yesterday for the Charismatic Renewal it is always speaking about Jesus without the need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.
Jesus without the Catholic Church.
According to their website:
The Meetings of Prayer and Evangelization are organized by the Charismatic Communities of the Catholic Fraternity. The above-mentioned Meetings will be held in some Basilicas in the Centre of Rome during the works of the 13TH ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS on the theme “The new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith”.
The purpose of these meetings is to accompany with the prayer the Holy Father Benedict and the Bishops during the works of the Synod. It will also be an opportunity to give a new announcement of the Gospel to those far and to revive the faith of those baptized.
The main inspirer for this initiative of prayer during the Synodal Celebrations was Cardinal Léon Joseph Suenens, of blessed memory, who used to summon on these occasions the leaders of the International Charismatic Renewal in Rome
Matteo Calisi is the President of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismaticn Covenant Communities and Fellowships . He is
an international leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church.
Since 2002 he has been the President of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships (CFCCC) Organism of Pontifical Right, recognised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity of the Holy See at San Calisto Palace in Vatican.
Till March 2004, Matteo Calisi served as Vice-President and Representative for South Europe of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (ICCRS), which has its Head-Office in Vatican. Furthermore, he was delegated to represent ICCRS at the Vatican Dicastries and to preside ICCRS Sub-Committee for Ecumenism. He was also Member of ICCRS International Doctrinal Committee and Member of the Executive European Council of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
ICCRS does not affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and neither Vatican Council II (AG 7). They assume that those saved in invincible ignorance etc are explicitly known to us and so are exceptions to AG 7 and the defined dogma.
According to their website in November 2001 Matteo was a moderator at the First International Colloquium about “Healing Prayer and Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church” and co-presided over the Second International Colloquium on the “Charisms in the Church and in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal” held in Vatican by the Pontifical Council for the Laity in co-operation with ICCRS
The Community of Jesus
Matteo is the President of Comunità di Gesù (Community of Jesus) in Bari, Italy, a Charismatic Covenant Community he founded in 1983 that has a special ecumenical sensitiveness and whose charisma irradiates also other countries such as Albania, Argentina, Romania, Belarus, Angola, Brazil, Mexico and USA. Comunità di Gesù is located in different towns in Italy and abroad. In 1992 the Community was canonically recognised as a juridical personality by Ecclesiastical Authority in the Catholic Church and since 1994 it has become member of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships (CFCCCF) of Pontifical Right.
The Community of Jesus is the covering association of the worldwide branches.
The Communities of Jesus is
1. Trans-denominational: Members are accepted from all Christian faith traditions.
2. International: member communities are located around the world.
3. Christ Centered: member communities recognize that a personal relationship with Christ is the foundation of the Christian life.
4. Spirit Filled: member communities encourage the free flow of the gifts of the spirit in worship, prayer and daily living.
5. Evangelistic: member communities seek to reach out to those who do not know Christ.
6. Ambassadors of Reconciliation: member communities seek and model reconciliation between Christian denominations, desiring for all Christians to be united in Christ…
-Lionel Andrades
Caption: With Cardinal Kurt Koch.
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