The spirituality of communion in the Focolare Movement

Authors

  • Ivanaldo Oliveira Santos
  • José Pereira Silva Neto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2177-952X.2018v12i21p96-117

Keywords:

Spirituality, Communion, Focolare

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present and investigate the spirituality of communion in one of the most important movements of the Church in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, namely the Focolare Movement. It is a spirituality that seeks to reestablish communion and unity between the human being and God and between the various segments that make up the Church and society. Finally, it is stated that in the present a great number of conflicts that go from the terrorism is seen, such as ethnic and religious conflicts, until arriving at wars and economic disputes. Within this worrying context, the spirituality of communion, of the Focolare Movement, is a concrete response that is possible to the construction of unity and that the human being has superficial differences only, since in the deepest being, a communion called humanity is formed.

Author Biographies

Ivanaldo Oliveira Santos

Doutor em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

José Pereira Silva Neto

Graduado em Teologia pela Faculdade Dom Helder (FDH)

Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP/PE)

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