The New Catechumenal Way of Kiko Arguello have begun their catechesis in Rome.They are not aware that there are no magisterial documents which contradict the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).
Their catechists interpret the red hypothetical passages in Vatican Council II as interpreting the blue orthodox passages which support exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.
This is the error in theology and doctrine at their seminaries in Rome and other countries.
When the lay catechists are informed they say that they have a text given to them and they present it. Two catechists whom I knew rejected the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus in their catechesis and believed that this was the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Kiko Arguello, the initiator of this lay Catholic movement which has produced good fruit for the Church, has to interpret magisterial documents as a rupture with Tradition, the red has to be an exception to the blue.
So they invite people to Jesus without telling them that outside the Church there is no salvation and all non Catholics are lost forever, unless before death they enter the Church.
This was the teaching of the Early Christians(Early Catholics). They did not separate the kergyma from the community, the Church.
So the faith has been changed today since the catechists have to believe and proclaim that un-known and hypothetical cases are practical exceptions to all needing to enter the Church for salvation.
This is not the Word of God, but an innovation which has not been the Deposit of the Faith.
So every week when they meet and study the Bible they interpret Church doctrine on salvation as a rupture with the ecclesiology of the Apostles and the Early Church.
-Lionel Andrades
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What is it like to be a missionary in Mongolia?
.- When Francisco Javier Olivera was born, his mother offered him to the Virgin Mary, praying that he would become a missionary in Asia.
Olivera’s mother told him about the consecration after he was ordained a priest in Japan 22 years ago. Since then, he has served as a missionary, not only in Japan, but in China and Mongolia as well.
Fr. Olivera was born in Salamanca, Spain, 47 years ago. He is a diocesan priest working with the Neocatechumenal Way and has been a missionary for 28 years.
In an interview with Religión En Libertad, Olivera said his priestly and missionary vocation grew “little by little,” influenced by a series of missionaries and catechists who stayed at his family’s house.
He also believes that his mother’s prayers made a difference.
“She offered me to Our Lady to be a missionary in Asia. I didn't know that, she told me in Takamatsu, [Japan] when the celebration of my ordination was over,” the priest said.
The priest said that Japan has been his toughest assignment, because there “you felt more loneliness, even being in a parish,” while China impressed him very much since “the people have a lot of curiosity and if there were freedom it would be amazing.”
After four years of living in Mongolia, he said he still finds the assignment “quite difficult because of the language, the cold, the pollution, the culture, and especially because of all the legal impediments we have, which are many.”
The Catholic Church arrived in Mongolia in 1992, when three missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were sent to the country following the arrival of democracy and safeguards for religious liberty in the country’s constitution.
Later, other congregations of priests and religious arrived, as well as lay missionaries. Today, there are just over 1,200 Catholics.
“The parishes are young in every respect, many young people are being drawn to the Church…We already have the first Mongolian priest ordained two years ago and now we have a deacon,” Olivera explained.
Olivera works with a team of lay missionaries and families in the Neocatechumenal Way. He celebrates Mass each day, studies Mongolian, and teaches Japanese at a company where he tries to “take advantage of the occasion to talk about God, especially through songs.” He also teaches biblical catechesis at the local parish.
Conversions are not frequent, he said, but he has seen people “drawing close to the Church, especially through all the various social works being carried out – assistance to the impoverished elderly, poor and abandoned children.”
“Without a doubt, the love the missionaries are showing is gradually attracting the [locals].”
As an example, the priest recalled a young man who “was searching for God in beauty.” One day, the man entered the Catholic cathedral, where he saw a group of elderly women praying. Moved by the beauty of the scene, the young man decided to be baptized.
“Some people think that this life is crazy, but I desire it for myself,” Olivera told Religión en Libertad. “If it's getting a bit crazier, better yet, the more we see that it is God who is behind it.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-missionary-in-mongolia-82228Journalist-turned-missionary finds happiness in evangelization
.- Belén Manrique had a promising career in journalism, surrounded by good friends and family. But at age 30, she left her life in Spain behind to become a missionary in Ethiopia.
“I always say that the mission is never boring. It's a thousand times better than what we could imagine. It's a life full of surprises if you put yourself in the Lord's hands,” she told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language sister agency, during a recent visit to Rome.
“I live in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and my mission is to be a witness to the love of God there where he puts me, to build up the Church because it's very poor there. The Christian community is very weak, and so it is very important to help the people know Jesus Christ,” she explained.
Despite worldly success, “the life I led did not fulfill me,” she said. “The plan God had for me was different, and when I discovered that what he wanted was for me to bring the love of God to people who don't know him, I did not doubt God's call – it wasn't hard for me to leave my job as a journalist or leave Madrid.”
Manrique belongs to the Neocatechumenal Way, an ecclesial movement that focuses on post-baptismal adult formation. She said the movement helped her grow in faith.
“I was able to encounter Jesus Christ and realize that he's the only one who gives happiness to man. I went there where I found the mission the Lord had planned for me.”
Her first destination in Ethiopia was the eastern desert, “where most people are Muslims.”
“I realized it was necessary for the Church to come there to bring the Gospel to those people who don't know [Christ],” she said. “Ethiopia is 50 percent Muslim and 50 percent Christian, but most of them are Orthodox Christians. The Catholic Church is less than 1 percent of the population.”
“We're building a 'missio ad gentes' on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, in a neighborhood where the Catholic Church has no presence. Besides the Orthodox, there are a lot of Protestants,” she said.
Manrique’s work consists of helping out in the parishes, and talking to people. She stressed that success in her mission is “not about gaining followers but of being witnesses and making Jesus Christ known.”
“Not long ago a boy asked me: 'Can you be a Catholic without being a nun or a priest'? Most of the Catholics that have come to Ethiopia are nuns and priests, and so they have that thought.”
She added that she often encounters Ethiopians who want to leave their country, either to flee violence or because they have seen an idealized version of Europe on television, and believe life there to be luxurious and worry-free.
“Every day, there's someone who asks me to bring him to my country, and I tell them that the one who's not going back to her country is me,” she said. “I tell them that I lived in this idyllic world that they want to go to, and I have renounced it.”
“I explain that riches don't give happiness, that I had all that which they long for and it wasn't making me happy. I'm much happier because God gives happiness and love for one's neighbor.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/journalist-turned-missionary-finds-happiness-in-evangelization-56753Evangelization is a priority, Francis tells Neocatechumenal Way
.- Catholics have a mission to evangelize, teaching people that God never tires of loving them, Pope Francis said to members of the Neocatechumenal Way Saturday at a gathering for the 50th anniversary of the movement.
I feel like speaking to you from the heart about “the mission, about evangelization, which is the priority of the Church today,” the pope said May 5.
This is because “mission is to give voice to the faithful love of God, it is to announce that the Lord loves us and that he will never get tired of me, of you, of us and of this world of ours, which we may get tired of.”
He warned Catholics about the temptation to ignore God’s call to evangelize the world out of laziness or a fear of taking risks, noting that it is easy to be content with the situation one is already in and has under control.
“It is easier to stay home,” Francis said, but this “is not the way of Jesus,” who sends out his disciples with the word, “Go!”
A strong call “that resounds in every corner of Christian life; a clear invitation to always be outgoing, pilgrims in the world looking for their brother who still does not know the joy of God’s love.”
The pope spoke during an international gathering of the Neocatechumenal Way at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” The Neocatechumenal Way is a Catholic community founded in 1964 in Madrid, Spain, dedicated to post- and pre-baptismal formation of Christians.
The meeting included thousands of members of the Neocatechumenal Way, cardinals, and bishops, from almost every corner of the world – including Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.
During the encounter, Pope Francis blessed and handed out crosses to the leaders of 34 new “missio ad gentes,” which are groups made up of families and a priest sent to live in various parts of the world to evangelize the local community through what they call an “itinerant church.”
The pope also commissioned several Neocatechumenal communities in Roman parishes to bring missions to parishes in the outskirts, or “peripheries,” of Rome.
“The risen Jesus says: ‘Make disciples.’ Here is the mission,” the pope said during the meeting. “[Jesus] does not say: conquer, occupy.”
To “make disciples,” he said, means to share with others the gift you have already received, “the encounter of love that has changed your life.”
To do this, the pope said not to worry about using arguments that convince, but to focus on living a “life that attracts,” serving, not imposing.
Pope Francis also pointed out the important role and vocation of the family, which has in its “DNA” the ability to bring a family atmosphere into “so many desolate and unconcerned places.”
“Following the example of the Holy Family: in humility, simplicity, and praise… Let yourselves be recognized as the friends of Jesus,” he said.
In living out the mission, Francis also encouraged detachment from material things, which he said are only burdens keeping people from true freedom in Christ.
“Only a Church that renounces the world announces the Lord well,” he stated. “Only a Church freed from power and money, free from triumphalism and clericalism, testifies in a credible way that Christ liberates man.”
The person who through love “learns to renounce the things that pass, embraces this great treasure: freedom,” he said.
Concluding, he said the charism of the Neocatechumenal Way “is a great gift from God for the Church of our time.”
“We thank the Lord for these fifty years. And looking at his loving faithfulness, never lose trust: He will guard you, spurring you at the same time to go, as beloved disciples, to all peoples, with humble simplicity.”
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