{"id":292212,"date":"2011-03-19T05:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/italy-with-the-warmth-of-its-people\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:41:58","slug":"italy-with-the-warmth-of-its-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/italy-with-the-warmth-of-its-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: with the warmth of its people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Brotherhood, the importance of dialogue, care for the least fortunate, the urgent need of legality. Chiara\u2019s third anniversary, was the chance for the Italian Focolare communities to approach topics close to all Italian\u2019s hearts in the light of the Spirituality of Communion.<\/em><\/em>  <em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-29075\" href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/news\/2011\/03\/19\/italia-con-il-calore-di-un-popolo\/20110319-04\/\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-200x200 wp-image-29075 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0pt none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110319-04-200x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/em>In <strong>Brescia<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> for example, the founder of the Focolare Movement was commemorated with a round table discussion entitled <strong>\u201cChiara Lubich, a life for unity. <\/strong><strong>The challenge of brotherhood\u201d<\/strong>. In <strong>Milan<\/strong>, Archbishop Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi celebrated mass in the Basilica of Sant\u2019Amrogio. All of the major cities in the Lombardy region remembered Chiara in this third anniversary of her departure for Heaven.  <strong>Rome<\/strong> paid tribute to Lubich by highlighting the pathways to dialogue opened by her Charism. <strong>\u201cChiara Lubich, a woman in dialogue. Inspiration for dialogue between religions and within the arena of contemporary culture\u201d-<\/strong> this was the title of a meeting held in the prestigious \u201cPalazzo della Cancelleria\u201d, or Palace of the Chancellery. Two female speakers gave talks at the event: Lisa Palmieri form the American Jewish Committee and Shahrzad Houshmand professor of Islamic Studies at the Gregorian  University.  Concerts, masses, book launches, thematic meetings, even a guided tour to discover \u201cChiara\u2019s Rome\u201d given by Oreste Paliotti. The Italian capital thus paid tribute to Chiara with a full programme in venues throughout the city. \u201cThis programme of events marking three years of Chiara\u2019s passing\u201d; the promoters of the events explained, \u201caims at underlining and highlighting the life of the Focolare\u2019s Roman community, widespread in the most diverse environments of each municipality and neighbourhood in the city\u201d (romaamor.it).  In the central Italian regions of <strong>Abruzzo<\/strong> and <strong>Sardinia<\/strong> the events organised for the occasion were numerous and widespread. In <strong>Lazio<\/strong> there were 18 events in remembrance of Chiara: from Poggio Mirteto and Tuscania right up to the Roman coast there were masses, community meetings, book launches, thematic roundtable discussions throughout the provinces as well as in its town centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy, Chiara Lubich\u2019s native country and starting point of the Charism of Unity\u2019s diffusion throughout the world, paid homage to the founder of the Focolare Movement with the warmth of a people and a culture that know how to look its present-day challenges in the eye.<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292212","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\/292212","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=292212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}