July

The journey of hope continues
Twenty five years ago, God’s love started the Community Cenacolo and initiated a continuous journey of hope!  We began the first steps of this adventure trusting only in God’s love, and the hope that we had in our hearts grew and was confirmed as we witnessed the fidelity of God.
Faith in Him has kept the flame of hope alive within us, which has become service through small, welcoming, and loving gestures each day. Today this love is visible to all those who love us, who are amazed by the living miracle of the resurrection that happens in the lives of the youth that the Community welcomes. We can no longer deny that the risen Christ is alive among us, because it is Him who makes each one of us rise each day.
His love extends to and is freely given to all mankind, he protects us, defends us, immerges himself in our lives made up of good and evil, of health and sickness, of strength and weakness, of faith and atheism… our God does not leave anyone out.  He is a universal God that is present and continues to look down upon us always, everyday and in all situations.  Even those who do not want to recognize Him or deny the resurrection are embraced by His mercy which rises like the sun each day over the good and evil, the just and unjust, over all of us, and even reaches those who refuse Him.  He who is the infinite tenderness that covers and illuminates the whole world is the one that picks us back up and forgives.
God loves above and beyond our measurements. He is infinite love without boundaries, is mercy without limits, which is shown to us through the acts of Jesus. We have listened to Him, have contemplated Him, have touched Him, have eaten Him… and now we must say, like the apostle John, “we announce Him to you”.
Christianity must run through our lives from our heads to our feet. Our beliefs must be spontaneously demonstrated by every gesture, look, and feeling. We are not Christians only when we are asked to be, but always! 
Our mission, as believers, is to announce the joy of the encounter that has transformed our lives by smiles that communicate hope, with goodness lived freely, with a pure heart free of interests and ambitions.  These gestures of authentic goodness permit our God, who in Jesus of Nazareth, who took upon himself our human nature, to sanctify our fragility, making us capable of giving life and of experiencing the secret of true joy, which Jesus promised us . Life is a gift which is to be given!  God’s mercy initiated a journey that, step by step, is unveiled before our eyes as a true, original, fascinating, and beautiful story that continues.
May the Lord grant us the fidelity to follow Him and the joy to serve Him!  

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