“Leave everything for God” (1930 – 22 May 2009)

Chiara Lubich spoke to a crowd of 15,000 gathered at Paleur Stadium in Rome, in March 1983, for a meeting of the New Humanity Movement. Thirty years on, in the light of those guidelines, an Expo in Chicago presents social efforts and changes well underway in North America.

On the night of 14 April, Oreste Basso left this world. He was among the first focolarini who were with Chiara Lubich in the development and spread of the Focolare Movement. We remember his cheeky smile and the perpetual twinkle in his eyes, but most of all we remember the warmth of his welcome.