Rubrica

Work and accommodation

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A request for help for a young man from Cameroon in Ravenna, northern Italy, sets in motion a network of solidarity and inspires solutions and opportunities for other migrants in the city. ... Read More

Living the Gospel: God has primacy in our lives

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The phrase "Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mt 22:21) contains an imminent request to live out our faith radically and this is what loving really means: to do the will of God who gives us everything and to do it wholeheartedly; recognizing His voice amid the deafening noise of the world and choosing it as the best way forward in everyday life. ... Read More

Living the Gospel: Become contagious

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Looking at the gestures of love performed by others sometimes generates a pull, like magnets, attracts us, softens our hearts and awakens in us a desire to "join in," to do the same. It is something that does not go unnoticed, capable of truly impacting many. ... Read More

Livia Groff Goller: meeting Jesus in the other

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On 8 August 2023, at the age of 99, Livia Groff (widow of Olivo Goller), a married focolarina from Trent (Italy) and part of the first Focolare community formed around Chiara Lubich, returned to the house of the Father. We remember her through a short extract in which she tells us what true conversion was for her.  ... Read More