\u201c<\/strong>I was deeply struck by this country; it made a beautiful impression on me\u201d, <\/strong><\/em>Chiara Lubich wrote in 1964 during her first trip to New York,<\/em> <\/strong><\/em>\u201cThis country seems particularly suited to the spirit of the Focolare. There is no air of ethnic superiority, but rather a distinct sense of internationality. There is simplicity. At mass I prayed for the Movement in this continent and I hope that God listens to my prayer because I am praying for the diffusion of His Kingdom..<\/em>. <\/em>\u201d Chiara later returned to the USA, making a total of 7 visits. <\/em><\/p>\n Making this event especially meaningful, the Focolare Movement\u2019s president Maria Voce and co-president Giancarlo Faletti, pay an official month-long visit to North America. They will meet the various Focolare communities and friends of the Movement in different cities throughout three nations.<\/p>\n In commemoration a variety of celebrations in Canada and the United States. For the occasion Focolare President Maria Voce and co-president Giancarlo Faletti cross the Atlantic on 16th March. They will stay in North America until 18th April where they will visit Canada, USA and Santo Domingo.<\/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-292198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292198","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=292198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110316-02-180x200.jpg\")
<\/strong> <\/em>In North America, the seeds of the Focolare Movement\u2019s Spirituality of Unity were sown right back in the 1950\u2019s. It was only in 1961, however, that the first Focolare was born when three courageous young people arrived in an immigrant neighbourhood in New York with one aim: to put the Gospel into practice. \u00a0Since then this way of life spread thanks to the silent effort of hundreds of others who these young people met and who made the Focolare Ideal their own: the Ideal of contributing to bringing about Jesus\u2019 prayer, \u201cFather may all be one\u201d (Jn, 17, 21)<\/p>\n\n
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