At the meeting of the Holy Father with the Ecclesial Movements
St. Peter’s Square, May 30, 1998 Holy Father, I have been asked to give my testimony on the Focolare Movement or Work of Mary.Because you have been well acquainted with this ecclesial reality for decades, allow me to consider it from your heart, to look at it with your eyes. You identified love as being the “inspiring spark” of all that is done under the name of Focolare, and it is really true, Holy Father. It is the driving force of our Movement. Being love and spreading it is the general aim of the Work of Mary. In fact, it is called to bring an invasion of love into the world. Indeed, Your Holiness, while recalling other spiritual Movements in the course of history, you affirmed that you could recognize in ours, a “radicalism of love”. And how could it be otherwise if everyone who belongs to the Movement constantly keeps their eyes fixed on one model: Jesus crucified in his cry of abandonment? It is there that we find the most
