{"id":291442,"date":"2007-01-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/40th-anniversary-of-the-gen-movement-always-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:18","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-the-gen-movement-always-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/40th-anniversary-of-the-gen-movement-always-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"40th anniversary of the Gen Movement \u2013 \u201cAlways on the way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cThe Gen Movement was born to make the world rehope in Someone who never deceives\u201d.<\/em> In a live message launched on worldwide level, Chiara Lubich recalled the duty of the \u201cGen<\/a>\u201d – \u2018new generation\u2019 of the Focolare Movement \u2013 born 40 years ago, amidst the youth protests of late 1960\u2019s.\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

With Chiara\u2019s handover, year 2007 is not a simple recurrence of the 40th anniversary but marks a new stage in the Gen life: \u201cYou are on a journey. \u2018Always on the way.\u2019 But the Way is Jesus. \u201cMay this 40th anniversary bring the Gen Movement to a greater commitment in living with Jesus as your travelling companion,\u201d \u201cBy reliving him, you will set in motion from your corner of the world that necessary and decisive turn-around that humanity needs to experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This worldwide event linked youth that live the spirituality of unity.<\/strong> Among the 44 countries linked via satellite into one network there was: Holy Land, Philippines, Brazil, South Africa, Korea, United States, Egypt, Uganda and Tanzania; 23 simultaneous congresses were being held aside from the over 2,000 youth, from all over Europe and representatives of other continents, were gathered in Rome.<\/p>\n

The Gen from all over the world answered with enthusiasm and generosity to the challenge in becoming \u201cathletes of God, heroes of the Gospel, witnesses of truth, evidence that God is fullness, peace, beauty, richness, abundance, love, mercy, trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some flashes<\/strong> \u2013 From Cairo: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time that I participate to such a historical event as this!\u201d;<\/em> from Venezuela: \u201cmy heart expands on seeing the whole world linked up, not only via satellite, but above all spiritually\u201d;<\/em> from Hong Kong: \u201cThough it is difficult, I want to say my Yes to Jesus: a \u2018yes\u2019 which is forever, immediate and with joy\u201d;<\/em> from Italy: \u201cHe fills every void. But he demands all my heart and all my soul: what a great Ideal!\u201d<\/em> A very joyful moment was the greeting of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to a group of Gen that participated at the public audience on Wednesday 10th January 2007, after the conclusion of their congress.<\/p>\n

The Gen Movement is born in 1967<\/strong>, proposing to the youth of the whole world a peaceful revolution, that changes hearts, and from there, making a difference in society, renewing its structures, bringing everywhere the life of Gospel: \u201cThis is the revolution we want to bring about: we do not like neither the west nor the east, neither capitalism nor communism; we like Christianity; we like the capital of God,\u201d this was one of the founding mottoes of the Gen Movement.<\/p>\n

\"\"Not only Christians<\/strong> \u2013 As the Focolare Movement spread, among the Gen there were Christians of other denominations and faithful of other Religions. They belong to areas of the world in conflict, such as in the Holy Land, Iraq, Colombia, and they are ready to witness a life based on the culture of peace. There are around 18,000 Gen scattered all over the world. They are the animators of the Giovani per un Mondo Unito (Youth for a United World Movement<\/a>)and together with them and with many more youth, they commit themselves in building \u201cfragments of fraternity\u201d, thus giving life to actions that can influence the public opinion, and they strive to give an answer to social inequalities present in their countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Message of Chiara Lubich to the youth of the Focolare Movement gathered in the \u201cplanetary\u201d congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}