“I found myself in the hospital due to a serious accident. It was the first time I ever experienced such pain.” Sr Felicitas from the Philippines recounts . However, it was precisely in the hospital that I experimented God’s love through the people who came to visit me. Some priests brought me the Eucharist which in that moment was everything to me. The chaplain was warm and helpful. Surrounded by so much love I responded in the same way: it was a chain of reciprocity.” Sr Felicitas’ experience stresses the impact of the spirituality of communion as a possible answer to the demands of community apostolic life in the world: “It is an extraordinary coincidence between what the Church and the world ask of consecrated life,” Sr Antonia Moioli, head of the consecrated of the Focolare Movement affirmed. “The seed Chiara has sowed inside us germinates and at times blooms and become a prophetic voice that indicates the way to humanity that has gone astray and becomes an “exterior castle,” irradiating love. “Grow and live in the spirituality of unity,” is what the Prefect for the Congregation of the Institutes of Consecrated Life Associations, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, asked of the religious men and women members of the Focolare, “because when charisms meet, they become vigorous and the Work of Mary (Focolare Movement) make charism shine, it enlightens them. Words are not needed – he continued – just be witnesses of the Gospel lived; this is the road to change. The specific vocation of the consecrated religious men and women is to open the prophetic roads while testifying to the values of the Kingdom. This is what the Church and humanity expects today, and to fulfil this we must return to our own charisms and liven it up.” Giuseppe Zanghì (Peppuccio), philosopher and scholar, regards Chiara Lubich as a bring of a light that has created the conditions for a new culture, that flowed from Jesus Forsaken: He is the God of contemporary man. «His reflections – again Sr Antonia explains – spurs us to be a light in the darkness, sentinels that announce the dawn. Will we be able to fulfill the prophetic vocation typical of consecrated life? In the past, monasteries and communities were the prestigious centres of culture and spirituality ; can we still look to this ancient-and-new reality as a challenge?” “Right here today we have found a treasure chest,” Maria Voce, Focolare President affirmed, “and together we can give this treasure to the entire Church and all the world, which, in order to believe in Christ, needs to see how Christians love one another. These riches God has given us, making of us his family, is for the benefit of humanity. This is the sense of that “going all out” Pope Francis continues to underline., and the universal brotherhood of humanity begins with the fraternity among us, in every convent, every community, every congregation and order and in the entire Church.” The Congress of the consecrated opens out to a future to be built, not alone, but together with many others, that makes of us the testimonials to a love that defies all differences.