{"id":291782,"date":"2010-05-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/maria-voce-in-france-first-stop-lourdes\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:40:19","slug":"maria-voce-in-france-first-stop-lourdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/maria-voce-in-france-first-stop-lourdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Voce in France: First stop Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" \"\"Maria Voce started her visit to France (4-12 May) in Lourdes<\/strong> on Tuesday 4th May. It was raining and snowing – just like when Chiara Lubich make a historic visit there in 1958.<\/p>\n

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The Focolare Movement participates actively in local church and civic affairs throughout France.<\/strong> These activities can be parish-based or at the level of ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue – several Muslims, Jews and Buddhists are members of the Movement. Members of the Movement are very involved in inter-religious activities in the town of Evry, to the southeast of Paris, while others support the work of the WCRP (World Council of Religions for Peace). Many participated in \u2018France\u2019s Social Weeks\u2019 and in the ecumenical meetings for Together for Europe<\/em>; in Nantes there was an event called Gusts of Unity<\/em>, which involved 800 participants from 10 different movements and new ecclesial communities. There are over thirty business men and women involved in the Economy of Communion<\/em>, a project that works for a fairer sharing of wealth<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Often it\u2019s the day-to-day presence of members of the Movement<\/strong> who try to take a spirit of peace to their places of work or study that makes a difference. There are many examples \u2013 Ennouar, a Muslim who is a friend of the Focolare and works as a bus driver in Tremblay-en-France, Jean-Christophe and Ewenaelle who are in contact with many other families; Bruno, a student who gives one evening a week as a volunteer with the Red Cross etc.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>During her visit Maria Voce told how in the fifties she also had been to Lourdes <\/strong>and on that occasion had asked Our Lady\u2019s help in understanding what her vocation would be. After meeting the Movement and Chiara, Maria Voce never returned to Lourdes again until now, when as President of the Focolare Movement she wanted to begin her trip to France in Lourdes, to thank Mary and to entrust to her the Movement that carries her name (The Work of Mary).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In collaboration with \u2018Nouvelle Cit\u00e9\u2019 we are following the visit of the President of the Focolare to France. First stop: Lourdes<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291782","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=291782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}