{"id":292320,"date":"2011-04-07T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/maria-gloria-huille\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:42:22","slug":"maria-gloria-huille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/maria-gloria-huille\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Gloria Huille"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Teacher of social studies and home economics; at the age of 50 she meets the Focolare and starts a new life beside Chiara Lubich: a summary of Maria Gloria\u2019s radiant 100 years.<\/p>\n

100 years old and Maria Gloria still has that same look in her eyes, that same smile, that same simplicity and solemnity, not to mention her clarity of mind and readiness to smile. On 13th<\/sup> March, the day of her 100th<\/sup> birthday, when the other focolarine asked her, \u201cWill we too reach 100?\u201d, she answered, \u201cLuckily it only happens to few!\u201d<\/p>\n

Leafing through the pages of her life,<\/strong> we discover that Marie Louise Celine Huille comes from a numerous family of nine children, three of whom entered religious orders.<\/p>\n

She started to work at 21 years of age as a Home Economics teacher in Paris (a job that, at the time, had a higher status than that which we give it nowadays). Then she worked as head-mistress and teacher in various social service institutes in France, Portugal, Morocco, USA,\u2026<\/p>\n

She dedicated herself to finding new systems for simplifying women\u2019s labour and, with a friend, she developed a project which was revolutionary for its time: applying principles of scientific organisation- like those used in a factory – to housework.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In August 1963, at the age of 50, she met the Focolare Movement<\/strong>. A revolutionary breakthrough in her already committed and worthy life. With the freshness of a young girl she dedicated herself completely to the focolare community and Chiara gave her a new name \u201cMaria Gloria\u201d as a particular encouragement to imitate the Mother of God. When Jean Marie Villot, the Cardinal Secretary of State at the time, asked Chiara if she could send some focolarine women as assistants, Chiara didn\u2019t hesitate to send Maria Gloria.<\/p>\n

This surprise-filled adventure later continued when she went to work in Chiara\u2019s house<\/strong> after the Cardinal\u2019s passing. She and the other assistants who had worked for the Secretary of State continued their task in Rocca di Papa (Rome) in Chiara\u2019s focolare right up until the Focolare\u2019s founder passed away.<\/p>\n

During those years, Chiara found solace in Maria Gloria\u2019s extraordinary life experience and often listened to her advice. With Maria Gloria, Chiara discovered that things done with care and love are not only beautiful but useful.<\/p>\n

To commemorate a century lived in such an extraordinary way, \u2018Casa Verde\u2019, the focolare where Maria Gloria now lives with other elderly focolarine women, hosted a celebration. The Mayor of Rocca di Papa joined the festivities<\/strong>, presenting her with a valuable book containing photograph\u2019s of Rocca di Papa along with a parchment that read: \u201cMaria Gloria, a women whose dedication to women and to others kept her young. She shared her talents and strength with the admirable aim of discovering the beauty of creation and helping others do the same, transforming this beauty into daily tasks\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One hundred years old\u2026 and still on top of the world! (13 marzo 1911)<\/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-292320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292320","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=292320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}