"The community of those who came to faith were of one heart and one mind, and no one claimed private ownership of his property, but everything was held in common!" (Acts 4:32)
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build new relationships
inter-human relations in the calls to the receiving, because they are giving and receiving, creating communion, brotherhood and equality of result.
Give it means sharing time, the communion of spiritual and material goods. With these attitudes, but surpass others, in giving content that exists in a culture of having: what offends flawed because the desire for power over another, what to look for in the act of his satisfaction, his own vanity, the 'utilitarian "that while giving is finalized and sent to their useful, your gain.
True to create new relationships that is what Jesus teaches us in the gospel. That to that experienced by the early Christians, meant that it could be said of them, "were of one heart and one mind, and there was no poor among them" (cf. Acts 4, 32).
no less is required of Christians today to build a united world.
said Chiara Lubich in a large gathering of young people in Palaeur of Rome in 1990: "Jesus called the commandment of love" my "and" new "because it is typically his, having filled a unique and new content. "Love one another - he said - as I have loved you." And he gave his life for us.
is therefore at stake in this life love. And a love ready to give life is what he also calls us to the brothers.
is not enough for him the friendship and kindness towards others is not enough philanthropy, nor the only solidarity. The love that asks not confined to non-violence.
is something of assets, on the very active. Question no longer live for themselves but for others.
And this requires sacrifice, hard work. Question to all men become faint-hearted and selfish, focused on their interests, their belongings in small everyday heroes who, day after day, they serve brothers, ready to give even our lives in them "1.
In these relationships unfold in everyday life and in moments, the person reaches maturity, emancipation, and thus of sociality.
Vera Araujo (Brazilian sociologist, Vera Araujo teaches social doctrine of the church in the citadel of international Loppiano and collaborates with various magazines. Being a consultant to the Movement "new humanity" - in the social expression of the Focolare Movement - took part as " expert "to the Fourth Conference of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) held in 1992 in Santo Domingo.)
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life experience:
I have always been tied to my clothes and every year it builds up. A month ago, making the change of season, I realized how I was affected by this attachment, I felt a strong urge to eliminate the closet for me everything that was superfluous. Eventually I found myself with a few things and a lot of freedom in my heart, I discovered the beauty and importance of the communion of material goods!
This small change has allowed me to restore the correct value to things again putting God first.
(A girl of 17 years)
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