The Fraternity Campaign is a concrete opportunity to experience charity and encourage <\/span>reflection, in a climate of prayer and dialogue on urgent issues to which it is necessary to <\/span>respond with effective actions.<\/span><\/p>\n This year, the Fraternity Campaign highlights a theme that cannot be called a problem, but <\/span>rather a solution: \u201cFraternity and social friendship\u201d, with a slogan that invites conversion of <\/span>gaze and heart to educate people to look beyond their own borders and learn to become <\/span>empathetic with those you meet along the way: \u201cYou are all brothers and sisters!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a world full of family and social conflicts, of violence, real and virtual, so great as to instill <\/span>terror in Brazilian cities, the invitation is raised to live a culture of encounter, to grow in the <\/span>ability to welcome diversity as a gift and not as an obstacle. A brother and sister who are <\/span>different in way of thinking, sexual identity, nationality or political ideology is not an enemy <\/span>from which one must defend oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n Fraternity Campaign invites people to come out of themselves, to overcome indifference and <\/span>egocentricism to help those who live in dangerous situations: women who suffer violence, <\/span>children sold and abused, families made fragile by poverty and problems, migrants who live <\/span>on the margins of society and many other categories of people who need welcoming arms, <\/span>helping hands, people who know how to share life and goods. The Campaign still invites to <\/span>take care of the Common Home as if it were our own home, which must not be attacked and <\/span>destroyed by greed!<\/span><\/p>\n The Church of Manaus also \u201cwent out in to campaign\u201d, marking the official start of the <\/span>Fraternity Campaign on February 14 th . The celebration took place in a square: a meeting <\/span>place where relationships are built and strengthened, where you go for a walk with friends <\/span>and family, where you take the opportunity to have a chat and have a little something <\/span>together. A place of meeting and friendship where relationships strengthen or break for <\/span>many reasons. It was a moment of prayer, inspired by the image of the Campaign poster, <\/span>which always tries to communicate the theme in a concise way. This year in the center of the <\/span>image there is a table, around which family and friends are gathered to share bread and life.<\/span><\/p>\n People different in age, sex, nationality and life choices. In poster there is also a little dog, to <\/span>remind us that nature also needs care because it is part of our Common Home. Together, <\/span>bishops, priests, religious, lay people, Christians and people of other religions, we prayed <\/span>and shared the joy of being a fraternal church that seeks to live synodality, who strive to\u00a0 <\/span>open doors so that everyone feels welcomed, also to go out and be close to situations in <\/span>which life is threatened. We tried to help those present to perceive the beauty and grandeur <\/span>of a community united in the certainty that a fraternity that is born from God and grows in <\/span>feeling like brothers and sisters is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cExpand the tent\u201d: this was the appeal launched. Deepening and reflecting on the proposed <\/span>theme is the challenge proposed to those present so that social friendship, as described in <\/span>the Encyclical Fratelli tutti, becomes real among us, wherever we are.<\/span><\/p>\n Sr. Rosanna Marchetti<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since 1954, the Brazilian Church has chosen a social theme every year to explore and experience during the Lenten period. This year, the Fraternity Campaign turns 60!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":62846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow8ovLDA:productID":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missionary-life"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/c-fraternidade2-300x224.jpeg\")
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