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Solemn cerimony on December 7, 2012

In Brasilia, 7 December 2012, the Federal Senate dedicated a special session to give tribute to the Focolare Movement and its founder, Chiara Lubich, on the 69th anniversary of the Movement’s beginning. article on www.focolare.org

2022-05-17T14:01:55+02:003 January 2013|

Cérémonie solennelle, 7 décembre 2012

À Brasilia, le 7 décembre dernier, le sénat fédéral a consacré une session spéciale pour rendre hommage aux Focolari et à sa fondatrice Chiara Lubich, à l'occasion du 69° anniversaire de la naissance du mouvement. Article sur www.focolare.org

2022-05-17T14:01:55+02:003 January 2013|

The love that makes us brothers and sisters

Rome, 1973 In the Pope’s 1 message for the World Day of Peace, to 'all peoples living in 1972', there is a passage near the end addressed to ‘sons and daughters of the Catholic Church’. In it the Pope invites us to 'bring to humanity a message of hope through a fraternity which is truly lived and through an honest and persevering effort for greater, true justice'. I want to consider for a moment this request of the Pope to his sons and daughters to offer the world a lived fraternity, in order to see how we can put it into practice and give humanity a message of hope. First of all, we can ask ourselves: is there among us Catholics a basis for creating a more heartfelt fraternity? And further: is today's world open to this? If we look at the Church and humanity, we'll see how both are subject to two contrasting tensions. The Church today, too, as in every age, walks along a way of the cross since

2021-08-15T23:29:51+02:001 January 2013|

Natale: la rivoluzione che continua

25 Dicembre 1972 Un Natale forte, coraggioso, non tiepido, in una “famiglia” grande come l’umanità Tutti uno! E' una meta. E' un comando: un comando di Colui al quale ogni uomo dovrebbe gioiosamente sottomettersi. Dio ci è Padre. Se si aprissero i cieli ed egli parlasse, guardandoci ad uno ad uno ci direbbe: "Tutti uno! Siete fratelli, quindi unitevi!".Un giorno il cielo si aperse, perché il Verbo si fece uomo, crebbe, insegnò, fece miracoli, raccolse discepoli, fondò la Chiesa e prima di morire in croce disse al Padre: "che siano una cosa sola". Non si rivolse agli uomini: forse non avrebbero capito. Si rivolse al Padre, perché il vincolo di quest'unità è Dio, e ci ottenne la grazia di poter essere fra noi una cosa sola.Ora noi cristiani parliamo tanto di unità del Corpo mistico, della Chiesa, ma cadiamo spesso nell'assurdo di sapere le cose, di conoscerle, ma di non viverle.Sappiamo di essere fratelli, sappiamo che un vincolo ci lega, ma non agiamo da fratelli. Passiamo gli uni accanto agli altri

2021-08-31T02:02:29+02:0027 December 2012|

Christmas: the revolution that continues

December 25, 1972 A strong, adventurous Christmas that is not lukewarm, in a “family” as big as humanity. All one! It’s a goal to reach. It’s a mandate: a mandate from the One to whom every person should joyfully surrender oneself, God who is our Father. If the heavens were to open and he were to speak, looking at each of us, he would tell us: “Be one! You are brothers and sisters, therefore, be united!” One day heaven did open up, because the Word became flesh and grew up. He taught, performed miracles, gathered disciples, founded the Church and, before dying on the Cross, said to the Father: “May they all be one.” He did not address human beings: perhaps they would not have understood. He turned to the Father, because God is the bond of this unity, and he obtained the grace for us to be one among us. Now we Christians talk a lot about the unity of the mystical Body and of the Church, but we often

2021-08-15T23:29:44+02:0027 December 2012|
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