Spagna: visita di Maria Voce

Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement, accompanied by the co-president Giancarlo Faletti and some of her collaborators is visiting the Iberian Peninsula from the 14th to the 30th of January 2011.
The visit aims to knowing personally the developments, life and people of the Focolare Movement in this Country. The main stops are: Barcelona (14/18 of January), Seville (19/22 of January) and Madrid (23/30 of January).

Positive RevolutiON! – Is one of the most awaited appointments. The 29th of January in Madrid, youngsters from all over Spain will be coming together to discover and build.. a positive world! Since many months, two hundred youngsters have being preparing this event in close contact with Maria Voce, who will also be attending.www.positiverevoulton.es

“I would like to share with all this youngsters the beauty and the joy of spending their lives for great Ideals! I would like to show them the fascination of this challenge, of aiming high and of becoming saints: this is how they will achieve real happiness and the fulfillment of all their aspirations!” – said the president of the Focolare Movement.

A day to be spent together: 17 workshops, concerts and forums. An event totally projected towards building a just world and in solidarity with everybody.
This is a further step towards the next big youth international appointment in Madrid.

Maria Voce recalled -in an interview to two Spanish magazines Ciudad Nueva and Ciutat Nova last December- what Chiara Lubich had said when her last trip to Spain was coming to an end in 2002. Chiara had invited everybody to build unity, a unity capable of contemplating and holding within itself the strong existing social and cultural differences: “This is to be valued still today, as much or even more than yesterday. Lately, even Benedict XVI, talking to Spain, had invited everybody to live «as a family», embracing «all Spanish people without exceptions, as well as who lives in Spain without being native-born»”.

Maria Voce will also be meeting the Church authorities and visit the places regarding the great Spanish saints: Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross.
In Seville she will also be visiting some of the enterprises which have joined the Economy of Communion project.