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Beginning Of The Year Convivience 2017
Our annual Beginning of the Year Convivience began on Thursday night, October 19th and ended on Sunday, October 22nd. As usual, the retreat took place at the hotel.We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the NCW. All communities worldwide are invited to Rome to have an audience with Pope Francis. An estimated number of 300,000-400,000 brothers and sisters are expected to participate in this celebration, which will take place sometime in May 2018. Many of the brothers we spoke with are interested in going to Rome to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Way. The Way was born on December 8th, and inspired by the Blessed Virgin Mary through Kiko Arguello. The month of May was chosen because it is also the month of our Blessed Mother.
Nine Redemptoris Mater Seminaries are being opened. This indicates that many in the NCW are being called to the priesthood.
Another good news is that God has built new communities in the Pacific. The NCW catechists in Guam held catechesis in Palau at the invitation of the Bishop of Palau. The first community in Palau was born, and they were able to join us in this year's Beginning of the Year Convivience. There were 13 brothers in the first community of Palau. A new community was also born in Saipan, which consisted of 30 brothers.
Listening to the Kerygma and the Magisterium of the Church was beautiful. It explained that the liturgy practiced by the NCW was never invented by Kiko Arguello or Carmen Hernandez. The liturgy came from the Second Vatican Council. Pope Paul VI was the first to recognize that the Neocatechumenal Way was the fruit of the Second Vatican Council. The liturgies that the Way practices came from the Second Vatican Council.
Before Archbishop Byrnes came to Guam as the Coadjutor Archbishop, the NCW would receive the Body of Christ together with the priest. Today, the document was produced showing that the liturgy practiced in the Way was approved. According to the document SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM (the bold is mine):
47. At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, [1] a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us. [2]
48. The Church, therefore, earnestly desires that Christ's faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a good understanding of the rites and prayers they should take part in the sacred action, conscious of what they are doing, with devotion and full collaboration. They should be instructed by God's word, and be nourished at the table of the Lord's Body. They should give thanks to God. Offering the immaculate victim, not only through the hands of the priest but also together with him, they should learn to offer themselves.This document from the Second Vatican Council stated that "we can receive the "immaculate victim" (Body of Christ) not only through the hands of the priest, but also TOGETHER with him. What I placed in red showed that the the document was discussed in the context of the Eucharist.....there is no mistake about that. Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II celebrated the Eucharist exactly the same way as the NCW had always celebrated....receiving the Body of Christ together with the priests.
The only change that was made in 2008 regarding the way we do the Eucharist was to consume the Body of Christ standing like the rest of the universal Church. That was the issue addressed by the Holy See. The issue was not the fact that we receive the Body of Christ together with the priest because that was already addressed and accepted by Second Vatican Council. However, since Archbishop Byrnes decided to change the instructions on how we receive the Eucharist, we followed his instruction simply because he is the Coadjutor Archbishop.
The Magisterium was about two hours long, and the rest of the information will be transmitted to the brothers. Another important thing we learned in the retreat was that receiving communion by hand came from St. John Chrysostom, who lived in the third century. According to EWTN:
Repeating instructions given by St. John Chrysostom (d. 407) to newly baptized catechumens, the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship stated that the faithful should extend both hands making with "the left hand a throne for the right hand, which receives the King." The person then steps to the side, faces the altar, and consumes the sacred Host.
When it came time for the calling, 19 families stood up for the mission, some of them were Chamorro families. Two men strode up for the priesthood and two women strode up to be assigned to a monastery. Five men and eight women stood up to be itinerant.
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