![]() ![]() The result has been to bring new openings and new perceptions (as I have also witnessed myself). ![]() Thanks be to God, the process started by Vatican II, notwithstanding oppositions and set-backs, progressed successfully, with the recent addition – thanks to Pope Francis’ sensitivity and foresight – of asking the Italian Pentecostals for forgiveness, and of the surprising and “revolutionary” opening of trust towards the Pentecostal world. It is evident that Pope Francis intends to recognise the help which the Pentecostals have given him from the very beginning, to reclaim and emphasise the ecumenical vocation which are in the nature and in the roots of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and to set it in the goals and the agenda of CHARIS. ![]() I am obviously not missing the meaning of this invitation, which goes beyond my person. I thank the CHARIS Moderator, Jean-Luc Moens (to whom I wish all the best for his new job!) for the invitation and for granting me the privilege of cooperating in this endeavour. It is with a feeling of expectation that I am here this morning! The waiting ends and I’m joyfully participating in the official launch of CHARIS, the tool devised by Pope Francis in order to renew and accompany – I’m using his words – “the current of grace” represented by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. ![]()
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