On August 11th we celebrated Danilo Zanzucchi’s 100th birthday. He and his wife Anna Maria were responsible for the New Families Movement for over 40 years. Theirs is a very rich story, a story of love given, received and generated. We went to visit them at their home in Grottaferrata…
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Fewer words, more action!
A prayer by the founder of the Focolare Movement to Our Lady, Untier of Knots
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 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,
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