Earlier this afternoon, we welcomed many members of the Neocatechumenal Way, in full voice, for Mass with Cardinal Vincent Nichols, in thanksgiving for fifty years in Great Britain.
The icon, by artist and founder Kiko Argüello, contains the mysterious words addressed to him by the Virgin Mary in a vision in 1959:
‘It is necessary to form Christian communities like the Holy Family of Nazareth, to live in humility, in simplicity, and praise. The other is Christ.’
In his introduction, Lorenzo Lees noted that this all began to make more sense to Kiko as the communities began to form in parishes; first in Madrid, then in Rome and then in London in 1974.
A livestreamed recording can be found on our YouTube account.