On 8 May 2021 at a traffic light in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil), Lorenzo, aged 24, and his mother, Themis, saw a poor man with a sign: “I’m hungry, help me”. This is how the project “Troque-a-fome-por-flor” (Swap hunger for a flower) began. The result is a network of florists and volunteers that now employs more than 70 people and is also spreading to other cities in Brazil. https://vimeo.com/619912229
Be open to God’s surprises
Religious men and women in the history of the Focolare Movement: a contribution to the spread of the charism of unity, told in the pages of a book just published by Città Nuova
Around 1,000 participants from 80 countries gathered at this unprecedented conference in Castel Gandolfo, Rome, to mark the tenth anniversary of the encyclical Laudato Si’ and to address some of the most pressing issues surrounding the climate crisis.
“What would Jesus say? What would Jesus do at this moment?” And it is precisely this question that Chiara Lubich started from in this excerpt taken from Genfest 1990.
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