Neocatechumenal Way 60 years of Christian initiation of adults

The Neocatechumenal Way is "a mode of Christian initiation of adults". This is perhaps the least perceived fact after these first 60 years. The initiators have sown the seed and have cared for it for a long time with love. God has blessed it with abundant fruits and with the seal of the authority of the Church. It now becomes indispensable to ask oneself the question: "Does the Way come from God or from Kiko and Carmen?" This concrete charism responds to "an urgent necessity'' (St. John Paul II): to rediscover the beauty, the richness of baptism and of faith. Pope Leo has stated: "You propose to everyone a path of rediscovery of Baptism, and this Sacrament, as we know, by uniting us to Christ, makes us become living members of his body, his one people, his one family ...I encourage you to continue with enthusiasm and I bless you, while I invoke upon you the intercession of the Virgin Mary so that she may accompany you and keep you safe!".

«You have rekindled the fire of the Gospel where it seemed to be dying out and you have accompanied many individuals and Christian communities, reawakening them to the joy of faith, helping them rediscover the beauty of knowing Jesus!»

(Leo XIV)

Father Ezechiele PASOTTI was born in Casto (BS), Italy, on September 23, 1944. As a young man, he entered the Seminary of the Society of St. Paul in Cinisello Balsamo (MI). He earned a Licentiate in Liturgical Theology from the Pontifical Institute of St. Anselm in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1972 in Brescia, before being incardinated in Rome in 1983. He entered the Neocatechumenal Way, carrying out his ministry as an itinerant priest: nine years in Scandinavia, three years in Bolivia, and five years in Uganda. 
He then continued his ministry in Rome as Prefect of Studies at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary for 19 years.
Since 2014, he is the Ecclesiastical Consultant for the Neocatechumenal Way. He has published various works, and for Edizioni San Paolo, he edited, together with others, La Bibbia: Scrutate le Scritture at the opening of the Biblical Year of the Pauline's Family and on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the death of Saint Jerome.

Neocatechumenal Way 
60 years of Christian initiation of adults
(il Cammino neocatecumenale 60 anni di iniziazione cristiana degli adulti)
Ezechiele PASOTTI 
English edition by Dino FURGIONE
Translated by Fr Pietro POGGIALI
Text finalization: Rachele FURGIONE
International Evangelization Series
Year: 2026 - Pages: 240 
ISBN: 9788863622997