{"id":327366,"date":"2015-06-15T06:25:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/thank-you-fr-foresi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:00:42","slug":"thank-you-fr-foresi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/thank-you-fr-foresi\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Fr Foresi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live streaming <\/strong>of funeral 18 June (3.30 pm Italian time): <\/strong>http:\/\/live.focolare.org<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\"Pasquale

Pasquale Foresi with Chiara Lubich<\/p><\/div> In recent years he lived quietly in his focolare at Rocca di Papa,<\/strong> together with other first focolarini:<\/a> Marco Tecilla, Bruni Venturini and Giorgio Marchetti, who had been his travelling companions for a long time. He was a key figure in the history of the<\/strong> Focolare<\/a>. He was only 20 years old in 1949 when Chiara Lubich<\/a> asked him to share the responsibility of the new Movement with her. In fact Chiara always saw Pasquale Foresi<\/strong> as someone with a unique design in the development of the Focolare Movement<\/a>, the design of incarnating the charism of unity<\/a> in concrete ways. For this reason she considered him, together with Igino Giordani<\/a>, <\/a>a co-founder of the Movement. In 1949, when he met Chiara and the Movement<\/strong>, Pasquale Foresi was a young man looking for his path in life. He felt called to the priesthood and studied at a seminary in Pistoia, Italy, and the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome. He recalled<\/strong>: \u201cI was happy and content with my choice, but at a certain point I had second thoughts. It was then that I got to know the Focolare Movement. In the members of the Movement I found an absolute faith in the Catholic Church and, at the same time, a radical gospel life. So I understood that my place was there, and soon the idea of the priesthood returned.\u201d \"VillaHe was the<\/strong> first focolarino to be ordained to the priesthood, followed by others who also felt called to serve the Movement in this way. Pasquale saw <\/strong>in what was being done<\/a> by Chiara Lubich and the first group<\/strong> of people around her \u201ca spring of gospel life gushing forth in the Church\u201d and he began an association with them that would lead him to make a fundamental contribution to the Movement\u2019s development, as one of Chiara Lubich\u2019s closest collaborators. Referring to his main tasks in the Movement,<\/strong> he wrote:<\/strong> \u201cAs a priest I was responsible for our first contacts with the Holy See. Another particular task, over the years, was following the Movement\u2019s growth and development throughout the world and working with Chiara on writing the various Statutes. I also helped start up and follow some of the Movement\u2019s centres and works, such as the \u2018Mariapolis Centre\u2019 at Rocca di Papa which runs courses for the members; the little town of witness at Loppiano in Italy; the Citta Nuova<\/a> <\/em>publishing house in Rome, and other works<\/a> that developed in different parts of the world over time.\u201d But there is one area of Fr Foresi\u2019s life<\/strong> alongside Chiara<\/strong> that perhaps represents his specific contribution to the development of the Movement better than others. He explained: \u201cIt\u2019s in the logic of things that every new spiritual current, every great charism, has an effect on culture at all levels. If you look at history you see that this has always been the case, influencing architecture, the arts, ecclesial and social structures, the various fields of human knowledge and especially theology.\u201d In fact he spoke frequently and published<\/strong> numerous articles and books<\/strong> on the theology of Chiara\u2019s charism and on its social and spiritual dimensions, authoritatively highlighting its newness in the context of both life and thought. His words contain \u201ckeen analysis, breadth of vision and optimism for the future made possible by the wisdom that derives from a strong and new charismatic experience, as well by the depths of light and love, humility and faithfulness that only God can achieve in a person\u2019s life\u201d. (Taken from the Preface to \u201cConversations<\/em>\u201d questions and answers on the spirituality of unity). The Focolare Movement throughout the world remembers him with immense gratitude.<\/strong> See also:<\/span><\/span> Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live streaming of funeral 18 June.<\/a> Pasquale Foresi \u2013 more familiarly known as Chiaretto \u2013 the first focolarino priest and co-founder of the Focolare Movement, died on 14th June. Our memories of him are full of affection and gratitude.The funeral will be held on Thursday, 18 June at 3.30 pm (Italian time) at the Focolare Movement’s International Centre in Rocca d Papa.<\/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":[893,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327366","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=327366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}