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Rome, 10 March 19761 The optimism that  this text reveals is deeply and clearly rooted in Chiara’s daily experience: the divine love that we share works miracles. You have had contacts with many non-Catholic Christians. How do you see them now as compared to before? When a bottle is three quarters full, you can have two different reactions. You can say, "Oh, a quarter is still missing," or you can say, "It is already three-quarters full!"The first expression describes how I used to view my non-Catholic brothers and sisters about 15 years ago, before I began to work for ecumenism with the whole Focolare Movement. The second reaction is one which I have had in my heart during these last years.In fact, I cannot thank God enough for having put me in touch with Christians of the most varied and important denominations.They willingly established with us a relationship of mutual charity in Christ. So living and working with them and, above all, getting to know them better, has given me a

Rome, 13 June 1998 In the many meetings between the Muslim friends of the Focolare and Chiara Lubich, there have been moments of both profound and sincere dialogue. The following are answers she has offered to some of the questions raised.Chiara, we would like to ask you, what has it been like establishing a relationship with the faithful of other religions?Chiara, we would like to ask you, what has it been like establishing a relationship with the faithful of other religions ?  I have always felt very comfortable! Because even if our religions are different we have much in common and this unites us. Our diversity attracts us to one another; it makes us curious about one another. Therefore, I am happy for two reasons: because I come to know new things and I enter into another’s culture; but also because I come to know brothers and sisters who are the same as me insofar as we believe in so many of the same things.The most important thing we have in

January 20051 Every year the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is held in many parts of the world from 18th to 25th January. Elsewhere it is celebrated at Pentecost. The theme for the Week of Prayer in 2014, based on 1 Cor. 1:13, is: ‘Is Christ divided?’In the past, Chiara Lubich used to offer a commentary on the biblical verse behind the Week’s theme for that year. To keep up the tradition and explore this year’s theme, we offer the commentary from January 2005 on ‘For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ’ (1 Cor. 3:11)Commentary of the Word of Life: Christ, the Church’s one foundation (see 1 Cor 3:11). In AD 50 Paul arrived in Corinth. It was a large Greek city, well known for its important commercial port and lively because of its many currents of thought. He spent eighteen months there proclaiming the Gospel and laid the basis for a flourishing Christian community. Others came