In the souk in Aleppo we hear form Jalal: war means destruction and loss, that is true, but crossing the threshold of the Focolare we find a home and a community, a refuge and place of comfort, hope and joy, where people support one another in getting up and starting over again. https://vimeo.com/343239935
Proclaim God’s love
On 16th July, the anniversary of the Pact of Unity between Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani, Tonadico (Italy) awarded the international prize “Tonadico-City of the Pact” for the first time. The inaugural award went to, Gerhard Pross, one of the initiators of the ecumenical network “Together for Europe”.
A chance encounter in hospital rekindles the concrete sense of helping one another, restores hope to someone who was ready to give up and gives life to the memory of a desire: to be builders of a better world.
From shaping clay as a child to the desire to see sculpture and sacred art as a language capable of bringing God to the people of our time, Ave Cerquetti, a longstanding member of the Focolare family who died at the age of 95, left a legacy that combines art, spirituality and above all communion.
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