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What’s Up? – New generations in action
In this episode of What’s Up?, we broaden our horizons, sharing some experiences that have come to us from Algeria and Ukraine, featuring young people and teenagers of the Focolare Movement.
EcoOne Meeting 2026, for the care of creation
An international seminar on integral ecology, proposing concrete actions in the Season of Creation will take place from 18th-20th September, in Castel Gandolfo (Italy).
From traditional leader to facilitator of dignity
Testimony by Helvisia Nji Bih (Mabih), from the Ivory Coast, at the event: “A Path to Regeneration: 35 Years of the Economy of Communion”, held in Buenos Aires in May 2026.
Witnessing unity for the human family
Pope Leo XIV met with 83 cardinals and bishops, Friends of the Focolare Movement, coming from 40 countries. He invited them to be, within their local Churches and in a world marked by divisions and conflicts, witnesses to a unity capable of building lasting peace.
Margaret Karram on the ‘Within Your Gates’ Forum”
“This initiative truly touches my heart.” Margaret Karram returns to the Holy City, where she lived for 24 years, to take part in the inauguration of the ‘Within Your Gates’ Forum, organised by Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa and the University of Notre Dame.
Season of Creation 2026: The Transformation of a Community
The “Season of Creation” is an ecumenical Christian initiative that begins every year on 1st September and ends on 4th October, the feast of St. Francis. This year with the theme “Living Water”, Christians around the world are invited not only to contemplate water at the river banks, but to immerse themselves in what it represents: life, relationship, healing, hope and the love of God that flows through all of creation. Here is a testimony from Congo, in Africa.
The platinum Rule
Idea of the Month – September 2026
‘Love does no harm to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law’ (Rom 13:10)
Word of Life – September 2026
1st September, the “Season of Creation” begins
In the message published on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Leo XIV urges us to face today’s ethical and cultural crisis that includes the desire for war, domination and the pursuit of profit. What is needed is “an authentic ecological conversion” that comes from the heart.
Chiara Lubich: “untying humanity’s most difficult knots”
A prayer by the founder of the Focolare Movement to Our Lady, Untier of Knots
Living the Gospel: seeing our brothers and sisters
The Word of the Gospel proposed for this month is: “My soul magnifies the Lord”, the opening words of Mary’s song when she met Elizabeth.
The commentary on the Word of Life says, “The words of this hymn invite us to understand God’s salvific intervention in our personal and community life, leading towards the new heavens and the new earth that the social revolution of the Gospel inaugurates.”
These experiences show us that praising God means taking the side of the little ones and believing that the world can, and must, change.
Franco Fortuna, a Saint Next Door
Franco Fortuna, a religious education teacher and deacon, devoted himself to the service of the local Church and to the formation of many families linked to the Focolare Movement. He has sown a lot of love in those who knew him. He left this Earth on 12th August, 2025,
Thought of the day
Allow forgiveness to be experienced
Allow forgiveness to be experienced