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<\/a>Archival photo: Pasquale Foresi with the young people of the Focolare Movement.<\/p><\/div> The prayer for unity is found in the seventeenth chapter of St John\u2019s Gospel<\/strong>. Chiara Lubich<\/a> saw the words of that prayer as her mission in life, which she immediately shared with her first companions. We publish a 1979 commentary by Fr Pasquale Foresi.<\/em> \u201cThat they may all be one<\/a>.<\/strong> As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me\u201d (Jn 17:21). \u201cThat they may all be one.\u201d This phrase is the continuation of a previous one in which Jesus also prays for those who would believe him through the words of the apostles. It is the Word that makes us one, and of one mind through the unifying power of the Word that is Christ. The Word of God will continue, down through the centuries, through diverse cultures, continuing to make those who accept it one. Another feature of the unity brought about by the Word is this: Whereas in any school of philosophy the disciple must never stray from the fundamental intuitions of the master, Christian unity is a vital activity. It is unity of mind and heart, it is family.<\/strong> That all may be one<\/strong>. This word \u201call\u201d points to the most absolute and widest universality with no exceptions<\/strong> [. . .]. In this verse, the word \u201call\u201d is linked to the word \u201cone\u201d. These are the two striking features of the Church<\/strong>: universality (catholicity) and unity. Paul affirms this Christian calling to unity when he writes to the Ephesians: \u201cOne Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all\u201d (Eph 4:3-6). Pasquale Foresi<\/a>, Luce che si incarna<\/a>. Commento ai 12 punti della spiritualit\u00e0 dell\u2019unit\u00e0, (Rome: Citt\u00e0 Nuova Editrice, 2014) 131.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cUnity\u201d is the word which the Focolare tries to bear witness to and announce with its own life. A comment on the biblical text by the theologian Pasquale Foresi (1929-2015), co-founder of the Focolare Movement.<\/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-306596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306596","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=306596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}