{"id":291584,"date":"2008-03-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-last-farewell-to-chiara-lubich-in-st-paul-outside-the-walls-in-rome\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:44","slug":"the-last-farewell-to-chiara-lubich-in-st-paul-outside-the-walls-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-last-farewell-to-chiara-lubich-in-st-paul-outside-the-walls-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"The last farewell to Chiara Lubich In St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned with deep emotion the news of Chiara\u2019s death which has crowned a long and fruitful life. Chiara\u2019s life has been marked by her tireless love for Jesus Forsaken.\u201d This is the beginning of the telegram by Pope Benedict XVI which reached us this morning. \u201cIn this hour of painful detachment\u201d, the Holy Father assures us his spiritual closeness \u201cwith affection\u201d, \u201cto her relatives and to whole Work of Mary \u2013 Focolare Movement founded by her.\u201d He is also close \u201cto all those who appreciated the Movement\u2019s commitment to constant communion in the Church, in the ecumenical dialogue and in the brotherhood among all peoples.\u201d The Pope thanked the Lord \u201cfor the witness of her life which has answered the yearnings of contemporary society in full fidelity to the Church and the Pope\u201d. Benedict XVI expressed the hope that \u201cthose who have known and met her, admiring the wonders that God has done through her missionary zeal, will follow in her footsteps maintaining alive her charisma.\u201d The Pope concludes by invoking \u201cthe maternal intercession of Mary\u201d and giving his apostolic blessing to \u201call.\u201d  The last farewell to Chiara Lubich will take place on Tuesday 18th March at 3:00 pm in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The ceremony will be presided by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. It will be broadcast live via Internet and satellite.  Throughout the whole morning there has been a constant flow of visitors to her home. The funeral parlour will be set up this afternoon at 4:00 pm and will continue up to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tuesday at 11am<\/span><\/strong>. It is located at the International Centre of the Focolare Movement in Rocca di Papa (via Frascati 306). \u00a0 She will be buried in the Chapel of the same International Centre of the Movement in Rocca di Papa. \u00a0 The Mayor of Trent Alberto Pacher has declared today a day of city mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 18th March at 3:00 pm. It will be presided by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Message of Pope Benedict XVI<\/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-291584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291584","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=291584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}