Chiara Lubich Answers: What is a Focolare?
Rome, 1977 Asceticism and mysticism as new way of life: the focolare The Focolare centres are at the heart of the Movement you founded. What is a Focolare? A Focolare is a modern community made up of a small number of people who live in the midst of the world and who do not distinguish themselves from others in the way they dress and they work. But they have left the world, their countries, their families, their careers, to give themselves to the cause of unity in the world. The Focolare is also open to married people if they feel within themselves a desire for a total commitment. They are asked to be spiritually detached from all things even if they remain in their family.The life of the Focolare is guided by a rule which sprang from life and can be applied to all circumstances. But the norm of norms, the basis of our life, is the constant, mutual charity that must always circulate among the members of the Movement. This