{"id":326546,"date":"2014-07-14T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-pact-of-unity-july-16-1949\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:57:36","slug":"the-pact-of-unity-july-16-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-pact-of-unity-july-16-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pact of Unity, July 16, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1279292488Lubich-Giordani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-108530\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1279292488Lubich-Giordani-210x168.jpg\" alt=\"1279292488Lubich Giordani\" width=\"189\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>  Montet, Switzerland, August 15, 2001. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/chi-e-chiara\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a> was surrounded by 50 young people and several professors from the Focolare\u2019s Centre for Studies who were about to give birth to the Abba School and the future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iu-sophia.org\">Sophia University Institute<\/a>. Chiara wished to speak to them from the heart, conveying to them that particular experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/chi-e-chiara\/igino-giordani\/\">Igino Giordani<\/a> that lies at the foundation of the Focolare Movement: the <b>Pact of Unity <\/b>at Holy Communion. It was July 16, 1949; Chiara was 29 years old.  A study on the Pact of July 16, 1949 has been published in a book entitled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/it\/news\/2012\/09\/28\/il-patto-del-49-nellesperienza-di-chiara-lubich\/\"><i>Il Patto del \u201949 nell\u2019esperienza di Chiara Lubich<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrochiaralubich.org\/en\/component\/docman\/doc_download\/1478-chi-20010815-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download mp3<\/a>  Video in italian  http:\/\/vimeo.com\/100116616<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Lubich recounts to a group of young people, the mystical experience of the summer of 1949 which laid the foundations for the nascent 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-326546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326546","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=326546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}