In dialogue
Our dialogue
is the dialogue of life,
the dialogue of the people
in which everyone can participate.
Chiara Lubich, Ecumenical meeting of bishops who are friends of the Focolare Movement,
Rocca di Papa, 26 November 2003.
In this video message recorded by Chiara Lubich for a meeting of SERMIG (Youth Missionary Service) on the 21st of January 2004, she presents the dialogues that are lived within the Movement, according to the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council. It was the last time that the foundress of the Focolare Movement spoke about this. In this speech, she refers only to four dialogues. The fifth dialogue with the various areas of contemporary culture was still in the process of developing within the Movement. The activities related to it were at that time defined only as “inundations”, but today they are considered as the fifth dialogue.
Dialogue has always been one of the characteristics of the lifestyle that emerges from the charism of unity. It is seen as a privileged way to achieve its goal, unity, and to achieve peace between individuals and nations.
It is a dialogue that is born from life and is committed to contributing to:
- an ever-deeper unity among the faithful of the Catholic Church, as well as among ecclesiastical institutions, associations, groups and movements born from both new and ancient charisms within the Catholic Church
- relationships of fraternal communion and common witness of unity among Christians belonging to various Churches and ecclesial Communities;
- bonds of fraternity and activities of common interest with people of various religions through all living the “Golden Rule”
- based on great shared universal values, deep relationships are established with people of non-religious beliefs, and together concrete activities and actions are carried out in a common commitment to the fraternity of the human family;
- new insights and studies in collaboration with experts from various fields of contemporary culture.
