GREETINGS TO
HIS MOST REVEREND EXCELLENCY MSGR. GIUSEPPE MARCIANTE
Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Rome
(Rome, Auditorium of Reconciliation, 02 December 2009, 18.00)

Your Excellency,
We are gathered here to celebrate the Fourth Ecclesial Convention of the Apostolic Movement. The first that we celebrate in Rome.
“The evangelizing mission of the Apostolic Movement and the new evangelization” is a theme, Your Excellency, with a particular historical root.
In Catanzaro, November 3, 1979 the Apostolic Movement was founded through its Founder and Inspirer Mrs. Maria Marino, with this sole purpose: “Reminding and proclaiming the Word of Jesus”, working in the Church, with the Church, for the Church and living her life entirely, without adding and removing anything.
However, the personal call of the Inspirer goes back to September 1977.

In 1978, in mid-October, His Holiness John Paul II is elected Pope, of blessed memory, who in the early 80s, precisely in 1983, expressed a great desire for the Church and the world of “a new evangelization”.
The evangelization he wanted had to be: “New in its ardor, its methods and in its expression.”
The fruits expected by him were: “Ensuring the growth of a clear and deep faith. Forming mature ecclesial communities. Remaking the Christian fabric of the very ecclesial communities” (Ch. 34).
Through the Universal Pastor and the smallest, humblest, unknown and hidden daughter of the Church, the Holy Spirit showed the way to run through to make the light of his Gospel shine in the hearts.

30 years go by. On May 26, 2009, His Holiness Benedict XVI, in his opening speech of the Pastoral convention of the Diocese of Rome, sees in a mature and committed laity a real tool of the New Evangelization.
“It is necessary to improve the pastoral set-up, so that, in abidance with the vocations and the roles of religious and lay people the co-responsibility of the whole and of all members of the People of God is gradually promoted. This requires a change of mentality concerning particularly the laity, passing from considering them as “collaborators” of the clergy to truly recognizing them as “co-responsible” of the Church’s being and acting, fostering the consolidation of a mature and committed laity. ”

It is right, Your Excellency, that You and the People present in the room know the style and method according to which the Apostolic Movement actualizes the work of evangelization.
They are simple. We can point them out with two words: unity and communion.
Unity between Prophecy and Theology, Word and Faith, Faith and Truth, Truth and Sound Doctrine, Sound Doctrine and Magisterium, Magisterium and Tradition, Scripture and Tradition, Scripture and prophecy.

Without this unity all evangelization is distorted. It is easy for the human thought to succeed the place of the revealed, manifested will of God, given, entrusted to the Church, so that she gives it in its integrity and wholeness.
Much evangelization is distorted because the Word that is preached is emptied of its divine truth. Without this unity it is easy to fall into the error of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ time, “Neglecting the commandment of God, you observe the tradition of men.” (Mk 7.8). And again: “You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves.” (Mt 23.13 to 15).
The Apostolic Movement, by the grace of God, in virtue of this unity, has always preserved itself immune from falling into this error.

Unity between Holiness and Mission, Loyalty and Testimony, Coherence and Announcement, Gospel and Life and Life and Holiness.
This unity is the essence, substance, truth of the evangelization. The Gospel is given as credible persons.
In fact, the missionary must be: safe and sure in the knowledge of the truths of faith according to the sound doctrine of the Church.
Strong and firm in the proclamation and remembrance of the Word.
Full of charity and mercy to the man to be led into salvation.
Patient in accompanying all to Christ, into the Church.
Prudent and wise in the formation of the moral conscience.
Filled with zeal for the salvation of souls.
Always welcoming and always available for every heart that seeks Jesus Christ.
Open to dialogue with everyone. Gentle in teaching. Humble in proposing. Discreet in dialoguing.
Moreover, he must: put the love of Christ Jesus above every other love. Pray unceasingly for the conversion of hearts. Offer to God his life as a ransom for the salvation of his brothers. Present himself to others with a morally unobjectionable life. Feeling brother of brothers, bending like Jesus Christ, to always serve them.
Unity between Evangelization and Formation, Truth and Grace, Word and Sacraments, Prayer and Work, Faith and Charity, Gift and Hope, Hope and Evangelization.

This third unity is the inner and outer strength of the Gospel. Without a solid training of those who already believe, without the testimony of a visible charity, both of material and spiritual works, without the lighting of hope in the God who is the only Lord of history, all evangelization will eventually be sterile.
Organizing Charity, awakening Hope, invigorating the Faith was and is the daily work of the Apostolic Movement.
All this work cannot be done except in the Communion.
Communion between Pastors and Pastors.
This communion has only one principle that sets it up in its being and holds it in its making: every pastor is the heart, the voice, the will, the feet, the desire, the sacrifice, the immolation, the holocaust of Jesus Christ .
Christ is the Shepherd and all are pastors in Him, with Him and for Him.
Unity is not agreement. Communion is not a vote.

It is our great ability to make all of Christ live through our body, our soul and our spirit.
The Pastor is Christ who puts himself before Christ, that is the other pastors. It is Christ who lives for Him, in Him, before Him; that is, before the other Pastors.
Every shepherd must live in the other, with the other, for the other.
Communion between Pastors and Faithful.
The necessary and indispensable hierarchical communion is called to be true service, interest, attention, care, love, charity, self-giving.

The pastor is the one who every day must generate the faithful as the Body of Christ and his life. The faithful is the one who has to let himself every day be generated in Christ by Pastor in order to be able to live the whole life of Christ in his body, among his brothers.
This communion of generation and training is the daily work of the Pastor. This work is the very source from which every true evangelization in the Church comes.
Communion between Faithful and Faithful.

For this communion it is necessary that every one of them engages a fight against sin, vice, superficiality, minimalism, and every other small or large infidelity. We need lay saints, because today the Church’s evangelizing mission might only be carried out in holiness.
When the lay faithful live this communion, they will no longer be any drops of water falling into a hot desert. They become like a river in flood that strikes, sweeps, fertilizes, involves and drags the whole world.
That is how I saw, that is how I see the Apostolic Movement. That is how I ask the Lord every day to make it to be for its greatest glory.

The Apostolic Movement has run through these pathways in these years.
These pathways must now be pursued with greater enthusiasm, dedication, zeal, determination, sacrifice, love and charity; for only by raising us we can hope to elevate the world.
I greet the Holy Father and I thank him with great joy for letting us participate in his General Audience of Wednesday. We are at his house, under the shadow of His blessing. This morning we heard His voice. We have seen him in person. In him we saw Peter, the rock upon which Jesus built his Church. For him and for the whole Church, of whom he is the Universal Pastor, the prayer of the Apostolic Movement goes up to God every day. May the Lord keep him in His Holiness, keep him in His Love, lead him with the light of His Holy Spirit.
I greet and thank
The Reverend Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, religious men and women, the Consecrated Lay Women, the civil and military authorities of every level.
The President of the Apostolic Movement, a woman who loves Jesus, entirely at the service of His will for the conversion of many hearts.

The Inspirer – Founder of the Apostolic Movement. I all began from Her. However, nothing has remained in Her. She gave everything of herself to Christ Jesus, and Jesus has made of her the daily and perpetual holocaust, pleased to him, for the salvation of many souls.
His Excellency Archbishop Antonio Ciliberti, in whose heart reigns the desire the Apostolic Movement, overcoming the daily difficulties and offering daily crosses to Jesus, brings to fulfillment the mission received for the greatest good of the Church and the world.
To you, Excellency Archbishop Joseph Marciante, my personal thanks and of all the Apostolic Movement. To You who are a Bishop of the Church of God, a Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Apostles, Evangelizer by divine mandate, I certify that the Apostolic Movement has only one end, one aspiration and one desire: serving Christ in his one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, in humility and obedience, in simplicity and poverty of spirit, in meekness and purity of heart, in communion and unity, making ourselves a sacrifice and also an immolation for the conversion of the world.

To all of you who wanted to take part in this our Fourth National Convention a heartfelt thanks. May the Lord reward you for your sacrifice, your enthusiasm, the daily commitment that makes you his missionaries of peace.
To the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, I entrust the Church and the world.
May she help us to bring all into the heart of her Son Jesus, to the love of the Father, to the communion of the Holy Spirit.
May the Angels and Saints of God get much fruit from this our Fourth Convention.
Thank you.

The Central Ecclesiastical Assistant of the Apostolic Movement
Monsignor Costantino Di Bruno.