{"id":308076,"date":"2021-10-28T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/happy-birthday-chiara-luce-badano\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:47","slug":"happy-birthday-chiara-luce-badano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/happy-birthday-chiara-luce-badano\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Chiara Luce Badano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blessed Chiara Luce Badano was born on 29th October 1971. <\/em>\u00a0E<\/em>vents<\/em> held <\/em>in <\/em>various parts of <\/em>the world<\/em> will mark this\u00a0 day.<\/em> In\u00a0 her birthplace<\/em> Sassello <\/em>(Italy),\u00a0 Holy Mass<\/em> will be celebrated and <\/em>\u00a0<\/em>there will also be the<\/em> Timeout<\/em> and\u00a0 the projection of an unpublished \u00a0video interview with her parents, compiled <\/em>by the Chiara Badano Foundation.<\/em> Blessed Chiara Luce Badano would have been 50 years old today. \"\"<\/a>She was born 50 years ago, on 29 October1971, and today she is a role model for thousands of young people. Chiara passed away just a few days before she was 19. ‘Luce’ (Light), the name added to her original one, was given to her by Chiara Lubich, wishing her \u00a0a life in which she would \u00a0be a bearer of that light which comes from God’s love. She met the Ideal of unity when she was a teenager and she became a Gen, \u00a0a member of the young generation of the Focolare Movement. \u00a0She always cared for others and she lived as a normal \u00a0young girl, perhaps never imagining that she would have to face a very serious illness at the age of 17. If Chiara Luce were alive today, what would she be like and what would she have lived for? This is a question\u00a0 many of us ask ourselves because we feel that Chiara Luce is still so close to us, that\u00a0 she is one of us, even today. \u00a0So we put this question to three of her closest friends, Chicca and Franz Coriasco and Cristina Cuneo, from the Chiara Badano Foundation<\/strong>.<\/strong> Chicca answered: “Based on the experience we lived with her, we\u00a0 imagine that she would\u00a0 absolutely be a normal young girl, but aware \u00a0of the fact that by living the Gospel and Chiara Lubich\u2019s ideal, one can do great things\u201d. What would have been her priorities in life? Cristina emphasised: \u201cWe believe that it is today\u2019s young people who can answer this question. In fact, in one of Chiara Badano’s last messages, that was almost a testament, she spoke of ‘handing over’ the torch to young people ‘like at the Olympics’. And this is \u00a0what so many are doing today by their commitment to diminish inequalities and social injustice, to care for the environment, to safeguard the common good, in the most painful situations each one encounters. \u00a0All the more so \u00a0during \u00a0this period of \u00a0the pandemic emergencies. They try to heal open wounds as she tried to do throughout her life: in her own small way, but always\u00a0 very concretely”. Franz added: “In one of her essays she wrote: ‘Often, man does not live his life because he is immersed in times that do not exist: he is immersed either in the memory or regret of the past or projected into the future. In reality, man possesses only the present moment, that must be lived in its fullness, exploiting it to the full… In this way we become aware of the value of\u00a0 life, a precious gift that cannot and must not be wasted or burnt by sterile selfishness and useless ambitions’. The Timeout<\/em>\u00a0 was a daily appointment for \u00a0her; every day at midday she stopped to join many others \u00a0in the world \u00a0and pray for peace. This was a fundamental urgency for her, and we believe it remains so for all of us even today\u201d. Chiara Luce was beatified on September 25, \u00a02010 after \u00a0the Church acknowledged the miracle of the sudden healing of a boy from \u00a0Trieste (Italy). The first celebration to mark this event is to be held on October 28 at 20.00. (Easter Time – United States and Canada) and organised by New City Press, Living City and YCNA (Youth Center for North America). It consists \u00a0of artistic pieces, interactive moments and speeches by people touched by Chiara’s testimony of life. The programme\u00a0 also includes a message from a\u00a0 witness who met Chiara directly. During this event, two new books in English are to be launched:\u00a0 \u00a0“Blessed Chiara Badano. Her Secrets to<\/u> Happiness<\/u>‘ , addressed particularly to children, with its text \u00a0by Geraldine Guadagno and its illustrations by Loretta Rauschuber, \u00a0and \u00a0\u00a0‘In my staying is your going. The Life and<\/u> Thoughts of Chiara Luce Badano<\/u>“, edited by the Chiara Badano Foundation. On October 29 at 18.00 (Italian time), Holy Mass will be celebrtated\u00a0 at \u00a0her hometown, Sassello (Italy). This will be live streamed on the website chiarabadano.org<\/a>. \u00a0It will be followed by the projection of the video “Chiara Badano: a life of light” (directed by Marco Aleotti). In this video, which one can watch in the coming days\u00a0 on the website dedicated to her, \u00a0there are \u00a0unpublished interviews with her parents who talk about her and their family life. On Saturday 30th October, the liturgical feast will be held. At 12.00 (Italian time), the meeting place will be the cemetery of Sassello, where in unity with Chiara Luce\u00a0 there will be the Timeout: one minute silence to ask for peace in the world. This event will be live streamed<\/u>. At 15.00 p.m. (Italian time) Bishop Luigi Testore will celebrate \u00a0Mass at the Holy Trinity Church in Sassello. Father Gianni Califano, the postulator will also participate. \u00a0At the end of the Mass, the award ceremony of the Chiara Luce Badano 2021 Prize will take place . <\/p>\n

Lorenzo Russo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blessed Chiara Luce Badano was born on 29th October 1971. \u00a0Events held in various parts of the world will mark this\u00a0 day. In\u00a0 her birthplace Sassello (Italy),\u00a0 Holy Mass will be celebrated and \u00a0there will also be the Timeout and\u00a0 the projection of an unpublished \u00a0video interview with her parents, compiled by the Chiara Badano Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-308076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308076","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}