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Symphonic-Catechetical Initiative Part of Way's Efforts to Foster Dialogue With JewsNEW YORK, MAY 14, 2012 (Zenit.org).- On May 8, the Orchestra and Choir of the Neocatechumenal Way performed in New York’s prestigious Avery Fisher Hall "A Symphonic Homage Prayer to the Victims of the Shoa, the Jewish Holocaust."The symphony interlaces the Word of God with music, through the reading of the prophet Ezekiel, the Gospel of Luke and the background of the Symphony, “The Suffering of the Innocent."There were some 3,000 people in the audience, the majority Jews, among whom were more than 30 rabbis, and some 12 bishops and...

Today, Sandro Magister points out two recent commentaries reflecting on the NeoCatechumenal Way - a lay movement that is controversial for various reasons, most concretely their liturgies. The NCW has been given until June to re-consider and reshape certain problematic aspects of their liturgies. Magister (who has always been critical of NCW): In December of 2005, the congregation for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments ordered the Neocatechumenal Way to correct the ways in which its communities celebrate the Mass. And the following January 12, 2006, Benedict XVI urged the Way to “observe attentively” the prescribed norms. Obedience...

Neocatechumenal Families: the New MissionariesAfter Benedict XVI sent some 200 families of the Neocatechumenal Way on mission, the Way's founder revealed that these apostles will take on the toughest evangelical tasks. In an interview with the Veritas news agency, Kiko Argüello explained that the families are destined for places where Christ is absent. "Families are sent to areas where the situation is one of total paganism. It is a mission of the purest 'ad gentes' type," he said. "Some families go to cities of the former Communist regime where there still are no parishes, to European cities where there are...

http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=44140&eng=y It is said that the pope is giving the way 2 years to change the eucharist to what he thinks it should be and it is going to do away with alot of stuff, read the whole article. Its long but worth it! What do you think? "I am to inform you of the Holy Father’s decisions..." Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum Prot. 2520/03/L From Vatican City, December 1, 2005 To the esteemed Mr. Kiko Argüello, Ms. Carmen Hernandez, and Rev. Father Mario Pezzi, Following the conversations with this Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of...