EXERCISE OF

LEADERSHIP

IN THE CONTEXT OF

GESTURES AND TEACHING OF

POPE FRANCIS

II HOSPITALLER MEETING OF AFRICA

THE BEDROCK OF LEADERSHIP…

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excluded, cold, the existential

suburbs of the human heart.

Let us keep our eyes turned

towards the cross: there is placed

all authority in the Church, where

the One who is Lord becomes a

servant until the total offering of

himself ".

(Pope Francis)

“Be always able to exercise the leadership by

accompanying, understanding, helping,

loving, hugging everyones and especially all

those pones who feel lonely,

Conversion of our service…

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7 • The gestures and Magisterium of Pope Francis invite us to

a “conversion” in our service toward the brothers and

sisters: conversion of our personal attitudes, relationships,

perspectives and style of mission.

• We are called to welcome and face the challenges of the

history and the problem of mankind by a positive and

benevolent attitude, being able to see in the growing

wheat field, even in the middle of the weeds, making

God's love known to the world, committing ourselves to

rebuild trust and giving to people the chance to express

themselves.

1. Conversion of personal attitudes

a) A service focused upon the

essential

Jesus Christ is the essential, the

witness of the Gospel according

to the charisma: by this loyalty

we support our brothers and

sisters on their journey toward

the Lord.

We are called to live discipleship

as an essential and indispensable

condition to devour our mission,

aware of being at the

"crossroads of the gift": all that

God has given us .... we are

called to give it to others ...

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1. Conversions of personal attitudes

a) A service focused upon the

essential

Our life commitment consists

in identifying ourselves with

Jesus who put the person at

the very center, was mercyful

and tender, shared words and

gestures of deep humanity

and forgiveness.

We can continue to act as

Jesus only if we live in a deep

union with Him and

contemplate people and the

realities of creation with His

same eyes full of benevolence

and respect.

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1. Conversion of personal attitudes

b) A service that has its moral authority

in authenticity

• Each of us is called to stand up for

own inner freedom and be himself,

whitout stiffening himself in the

dynamics of the role.

• Our credibility depend on the

coherence between words, gestures

and truths of life.

• Our commitment consists in break

free ourselves from mundane signs of

the power and spirit of the world,

giving witness of a simple, humble

and joyful life.

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1. Conversion of personal attitudes

c) A service expressed by a deep

humanity

• We are invited to firmly fight

against the culture of the discard

which can also enter in our life,

recognizing and standing up for the

fundamental rights of the whole

person.

• We are called to express bravely the

tenderness especially toward the

most vulnerables;

• To recognize our sins and limits;

• To not pretend to have all the

answers for everything and

everyone but rather patiently look

for the truth together with the

brothers and sisters.

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2. Conversion of the relationships…

a) A service able to exrpess itself in

a simple and direct way

• We feel the importance of using

a modern language;

• Listening a lot to learn those

words that can be understood by

others;

• Taking care of communication

and its pedagogy, looking for and

finding words that make sense,

that touch people’s heart because

they are close to their life;

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2. Conversions of relationships....

a) A service that is a “walking together with the brothers and

sisters”

We walk with our brothers and sisters, like Jesus did with the

disciples on the journey to Emaus:

In front of them, to make their way and show the goal,

looking at the horizon with hope;

Behind them, to go to the rythm of the weakest, taking

care of nobody gets lost;

Among them, able to mix us in the group, because we too

are on the way, with our efforts and joys, our impulses and

sins in the common commitment of fidelity to the vocation

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2. Conversion of relationships…

b) A service that seeks for the will

of God together with the brothers

and sisters

We value discernment and

collegiality so that communion may

grow, creating and consolidating

the structures necessary for

participation, aware that the

discernment is a process that

requires patience and time,

listening and inner freedom, spirit

of faith and courage to take

decisions according to the

responsability.

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3. Conversion of perspectives and style of

mission

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a) A “prophetic” service

In the whole of our attitudes and

our choices we try to understand

and make understand the signs

that invite to change, we try to

express the prophecy, the vision of

the future and the proximity to the

poor.

We are called to witness in a more

visible way, through our concrete

choices, the sign of fraternity,

3. Conversion of perspectives and style

of mission

b) A service that has the

courage to "go out and let

out”

We collect the invitation to

go to the geographic and

existential peripheries, in a vital

dynamic of "going out" through

the ways opened by the Gospel,

in a permanent state of mission,

freeing us from any form of

institutional and self-referential

rigidity, "to progress on the path

of a pastoral and missionary

conversion, which can not leave

things as they are.” (EG 25).

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3. Conversion of perspectives and style

of mission

c) A service that expresses

and spreads the culture of

encounter

We are invited to

promote and witness the

"culture of encounter" as a

style of life and mission,

with gestures of closeness,

especially towards the least,

the weak, the sick who are

among us the flesh of

Christ.

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3. Conversion of perspectives and style

of mission

c) A joyful service that gives hope,

We are called to rekindle the

hope of our brothers, to warm

our hearts, bearing witness to the

courage to open new ways, in

creative fidelity to the charisma

and daring of the Founders.

"There is no greater freedom

than to be guided by the Spirit, to

renounce to calculate everything

and to allow him to enlighten us,

to guide us, to direct us, to push

us wherever He wants us."(EG

280).

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