In
the Apostolic Movement was founded The Secular Institute “Mary
Redemption Mother”
CATANZARO
– A new page of history for the Apostolic Movement, that February 26, in
the parish church “Mary Redemption Mother” in S. Janni in Catanzaro, with
a solemn Eucharistic co-celebration officiated by H.E. Monsignor Antonio
Ciliberti, Metropolitan Archbishop of Catanzaro, made public the opening
of the Secular Institute “Mary Redemption Mother”, constituted and erected
at diocesan level.
Present also the Most excellent Monsignor Antonion Cantisani, emeritus
Bishop of Catanzaro-Squillace, and Monsignor Vincenzo Rimedio, emeritus
Bishop of Lamezia, priests, male and female religious persons, the choral
“Mater Redemptionis” directed by Father Biagio Maimone, responsible of the
diocesan service of sacred music; and numerous believers arrived from
different diocesan realities where the Apostolic Movement operates. A
consistent deputation came also from Trapani, native city of Mrs. Maria
Marino.
Five are the members of the Secular Institute “Mary Rdemption Mother”: the
founder and inspirer, Maria Marino, Anna Consoli, Francesca Mazza, Paola
Scutifero, Graziella Marcellino
During the homily,
Monsignor Archbishop in greeting the founder and inspirer, the Bishops,
the central ecclesiastic Assistant of the Apostolic Movement, the
theologian Monsignor Costantino Di Bruno, the numerous Presbyterians
“visible sign of God’s love towards his Church”, and all the present; he
called back to mind the figure of H.E. Monsignor Armando Fares, who as a
Bishop of Catanzaro, together with the auxiliary Bishop H.E. Monsignor
Serafino Sprovieri, in 1979, diligent to the action of God’s Spirit,
recognized the Apostolic Movement as a gift of the Holy Spirit.
“Every person – Monsignor Ciliberti said –, in the specificity of his
vocation, is called to bring to fulfilment a particular mission in
history. A mission which must never be concretised by other persons.
Therefore, something which solicits every one to rediscover the self role
and responsibly operate inside humanity. And in the name of the ecclesial
community – the Archbishop confirmed with firmness – I can express in the
certainty that this particular consecration answers the call with which
God spoke to our sisters”.
“The world and the Church – Monsignor Ciliberti went on – cannot do
without your presence, because such a consecration characterises the
irreplaceable aspect of the Church’s pastoral action. A consecration that
answers to the ineffable project of God, that calls you to be united to
his love of a Father, by letting you become a part in the profundity of
his mystery”.
Consequently, the votes of poverty, chastity and obedience, the
sacramental Eucharist, the listening of the Word, the assiduous prayer and
the exercise of charity will aliment the mission of these consecrated
sisters, called to be a visible sign of God’s love among men in the world.
A wish that Monsignor also addressed, exhorting the candidates to
correspond to God’s spousal love, by becoming in front of men the “living
letter of Christ”.
“Only this way – Monsignor Ciliberti concluded – you might build a better
Church and a more righteous and truer world, according to God’s plan and
the expectations and hopes of humanity”.
What
is the Secular Institute
The
secular institutes, according to canon law, are institutions of
consecrated life, that as such provide for chastity, poverty and
obedience vows, “in which the believers,
living in the world, tend to the perfection of charity and devote
themselves to the world sanctification, mainly operating within it”
(can. 710).
They provide for a consecration to the Lord – with the profession of
the votes of chastity, poverty and obedience – and a commitment of
mission and witness to be carried out in their own daily environment
of life. “The members of such institutes express and realise their own
consecration in the apostolic activity and like a ferment they try to
permeate every reality with evangelical spirit, in order to
consolidate and make the Body of Christ grow (can. 713 § 1).
They are governed by their own constitutions, that
reflect their own spirituality and are approved by the Church.