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The initiative of the Apostolic
groups (different from the initiative of the Apostolic
Community of Evangelization of
wich we will speak in the Spiritual
initiative N.3 ) has been put into effect and lived, with its
complete program, many times, in the city of Fermo with four
distinguished Groups.
The iniziative has been offered, or sown, in
more the earth's countries, during the “World-wide
Perigrinatio Mariae”, even if we don't know how it has
been welcomed or how has borne its fruits elsewhere. God says “One
sows and another reaps" (Jh.4,37). To us has been given the
grace to sow, to praise of God and in honour of the Virgin Mother of God,
Mary of Nazareth!
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the "Apostolic groups”
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S T A T
U T E
of
the
APOSTOLIC
GROUPS
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1 - The Apostolic Groups
are spontaneous groups of twelve people (brothers
and sisters) that have already received the effusion's prayer.
2 - They engage themselves to leave to be
formed, as more close disciples, from Jesus for a three year-old
special period to similarity of the Twelve Aposteles and they have the
purpose of the evangelization.
3 - The members of the Apostolic Group make
a promise with which declare to
Jesus, in the hands of a priest, them
shepherd to remain together for
three years, engaging
themselves to a weekly meeting of the Apostolic
Group and to the suitable bonds in
this small statute.
4 - The pourpose of the Apostolic Group
is double:
a) a greater personal formation
b) a strong care of evangelization.
5 - We have the constitution
of an Apostolic Group of
evangelization, when - reached the spontaneous aggregation of twelve
people - one of them (=”Andrew”),
for them charge, will ask and will get from a prist (=”Joseph")
the care of the spiritual assistance
of the group..
6 - The
spiritual assistance of the priest will mainly consist in two
cares:
a) To guide with a particular spiritual direction each of
Twelve with a monthly personal talk.
This particular spiritual direction,
nevertheless, is only relative to the relationship of the single one with the
rest of the group and to the management of the group in its "apostolic
whole". The true spiritual direction (as it 's habitually meant) is
released to the free and independent choice of each one.
b) To monthly celebrate the Eucharist
in the "Apostolic Group".. Then, it's good that single one goes to
their guide another time in the month to receive his Benediction.
7 - The “Shepherd” (= ”Joseph"
) after a first or a second talk with all the single Twelve,
asking in the prayer ligh to God, will give - only him! - the role of “Peter”,
“James” and “Jhon”
to three of the group.
They will form together the “Little Pastoral”
of the Apostolic Group and they
will be in stronger touch with the “Spiritual
Guide”.
“Peter”: (
men or women ) will be the responsable of
the group.. He will be the guide, (subordinate to the
“Spiritual Guide” ) and will give opportune teaching, for
which he can also entrust others of the group.
“James”:( men or women) a deputy-person
responsible with more organizational
and practical assignments.
“Jhon”:( men or women) will be a
person of strong communion
and apostolic zeal.
8 - The other nine components of the Apostolic
Group will receive, equally from the “Spiritual
Guide”, during the preyer, with drawing, the name of the
remaining Holy Apostles. With
this name, they will call among them in the group for the time of those three
"apostolic" years.
9 - The Apostolic Group
will be united from the Holy Spirit.
During those three years it will not be neither substitutions
neither addictions of nominatives,
also when someone had to go away or to be detached himself.
10 - The weekly meeting
of the Apostolic Group is of prayer
and partly of catechesis and
sharing. The time is of few more
than an hour.
11 - The Twelve
will engage themselves to frequent a second weekly
meeting of prayer: they will continue to partecipate to the meeting
of a group of the “Charismatic Renewal”
and to its life. To it, they will try to take, with strong zeal, other new
brothers and sisters, approaching them to God.
This is their choice (or
their ministry),their particular direction of work in the evangelization,:
to approach to God the distant ones, inviting them, first to the group of
prayer of the “Charismatic Renewal”,
and then, in the same“Charismatic Renewal”,
to receive the effusion's prayer.
12 - To these new brothers,
renewed from the effusion of the Holy Spirit, will be proposed an invitation
to form,at the same way, new Apostolic Groups.
13 - The Apostolic Group
, among them, are autonomous, also staying careful to the life of all
the others.
14 - Every Apostolic Group will
look for , through
“Jhon”,
the spiritual protection of a “mother”
(=”Mary”);
then, he will look for a community of enclosed
nuns, if they are in that country, (otherwise also nuns of active
life) asking them if they accept to sustain, through prayer and their ”Marian”
care, - together virginal and maternal! - the life of the Twelve.
And they will apply to Mary's
prayer for help, in their spiritual necessities.
15 - Allowing to be guided by the Holy
Spirit, the Twelve, during those three years, will try to develop
the following essential program.
16 - First Year: The
year of the meeting with Jesus.
a) Knowledge and loving meditation of the four
Gospels .
b) Personal reading of all the “Catechism
of the Catholic Churh”
c) Liturgical care: the
Apostolic Group will live together, more intensely, the preparation to the
Christmas.
17 - Second Year:
The year of the growth in Jesus.
a) Knowledge and loving meditation of the Acts
of the Apostles and some of the S.
Paul's letters
(pointed out by
the spiritual
guide ...)
b) Personal reading of all the documents
of the Council.
c) Liturgical care: the Apostolic Group will
live together, more intensely, the preparation
to the Holy Easter.
18 - Third year: The
year of the “mission”.
a) Knowledge and loving
meditation of an anthology's texts
of the Old Testament (suggested
by the
“Spiritual
guide”).
b) Personal reading of an important
document of the Magisterium (suggested by the
“Spiritual guide”).
c) Liturgical care: the Apostolic Group will
live together, more intensely, the preparation
to the Holy Whitsunday.
The spiritual
guide or “Sheperd”
(=”Joseph”), during his
talk, will verify that the single one will
well develops their annual program. As soon as, he will propose them
the division of the formative material
(suitable above) to read, to meditate and to pray, first alone in their
house and then to share together in the
weekly
meeting of the Apostolic Group
19 - Every member of the Apostolic
Group, during this three year-old spiritual walk,
will ask to God how best live their own vocation and the future
mission in the service of the Church.
20 - At the end of the mission,
with a “missionary” rite on the single one, the Apostolic
Group will close itself.
Each one, according to the rediscovery of his specific call, continues to
devote himself to Jesus,with maturity, in his Holy Church.
21 - If God called some people to another and more perfect community
life, they answer with joy to the
voice of the Holy Spirit. The wind of the Holy Spirit will take the single
one and the groups where it wants , always on the wings of love.
Amen. Alleluia!
22 -Holy Mary, Whitsunday's Virgin and
the Star of the
new evangelization, clasps the Twelve
to her
Hearth, under her mantle, and makes them grow in the
fullness of the grace!
Amen. Alleluia!
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