{"id":327928,"date":"2016-01-23T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/trent-italy-the-chiara-lubich-mariapolis-centre-celebrating-its-30th-year\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:02:48","slug":"trent-italy-the-chiara-lubich-mariapolis-centre-celebrating-its-30th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/trent-italy-the-chiara-lubich-mariapolis-centre-celebrating-its-30th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent (Italy): the Chiara Lubich Mariapolis Centre celebrating its 30th year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \u201cThis the house built on the rocks, (Word of Life) will remind us of the one Jesus spoke about. Winds and storms may blow but it will not collapse,\u201d Chiara Lubich<\/a> said on 24 May 1986 at the inauguration of the Mariapolis Centre<\/a> of her birthplace. 23 January 2016:<\/strong> it will be a feast day at the Centre which is today dedicated to her, in memory of 30 years of history, testimonials, dialogue and communion in the light of the charisma of unity. The event will open with the message of Maria Voce<\/a> and a video that traces almost 30 years of history. Then there will be some testimonials of the local members of the Movement in the civil and ecclesial fields, and the greetings of the Archbishop of Trent, Bishop Luigi Bressan, and the Mayor, Alessandro Andreatta, and other authorities. After 30 years, the Centre of Cadine has been faithful to its own vocation<\/strong>: to be a place of encounter and formation for those who wish to commit their lives to irradiating the life of the Gospel and bringing back through mutual love, the presence of God in the world. Flashback to the past<\/strong>. In the 1970s the Focolare Movement<\/a>, diffused throughout the region, felt the need for a formation centre. After various futile searches, efforts were focused on Trent. When she was told about this, Chiara responded: \u201cI had always thought of it as a city chosen by God.\u201d A few months later the entire Movement was living the Word of Life: “Sell all you have, and give it to the poor.\u201d <\/em>The desire to put this Word of the Gospel into practice<\/em> pushed Nostra Fadanelli, a follower of the Movement, to donate nine hectares of a wood for the construction of the Mariapolis Centre. The design was entrusted to Carlo Fumagalli, a focolarino architect who, with the awareness of having to build a Centre in the city where the Movement was born, traced the stages of her history in Trent and in the Primiero Valley, reproducing some details in the building\u2019s architecture. The project was presented to the Archbishop at that time, Bishop Gottardi who said: \u201cThis has to be a \u201dmonument\u201d to Chiara Lubich, of course, when she will be in Paradise. And it will be the best monument if, with regard to the history of Trent, it will be\u2026 a Mariapolis with an \u201cecumenical flair,\u201d and link up to the ecumenical mandate of the City of Trent, expressed by Pope Paul VI in 1964. And he concluded: \u201cYou have this mission!\u201d From that moment on, the generosity of each member of the Movement started circulating, each with his own possibilities and the fantasy of those who build their \u201cown\u201d house. In October 1980<\/strong>, while the bureaucratic procedures were underway, news arrived that they were looking for a house for the International Mariapolis Centre<\/a>. So they all decided to donate the funds collected up to then: a big sum which surprised Chiara herself. It seemed to be a crazy idea, but upon acquiring the permits to build, a new and substantial sum arrived, three times what they had given, which made them experience the promises of the Gospel: \u201cGive and you shall be given.\u201d So in 1982,<\/strong> the day section of the building of the centre started: the foyer, meeting halls, kitchen and dining room. Everyone wanted to help, giving their time and forces, and in the last year of the works, about 800 people alternated with the artisanal works, finishing and workforce. A memorable day was when the road and square were paved with porphyry, which was finished the day before the inauguration. On 24 May 1986<\/strong>, before about 2,000 people, among whom were representatives of the most important churches in Europe, Chiara herself inaugurated the Mariapolis Centre, underlining its ecumenical and formative vocation, and called the centre, \u201cWord of Life.\u201d \"CentroMariapoliChiaraLubichCadine_a\"<\/a>After Chiara\u2019s death in 2008, on 24 January 2009<\/strong>, with a highly ecumenical ceremony in the presence of Maria Voce who succeeded Chiara as President of the Focolare Movement, and many other civil and religious celebrities, the Centre was dedicated to<\/strong> Chiara Lubich.<\/strong> In these 30 years, tens of thousands of people have been guests of the Centre, mostly members of the Movement but not only them, given that it has also opened its doors to other meetings promoted by the Diocese, Catholic Movements and other lay associations of the territory. The Centre hosts in particular, conventions, formation schools, and various groups of the Movement from all over the world, who come to retrace in Trent and the Primiero Valley, the early days of the movement, when all was just beginning. The Centre bears witness to the dawn of the Movement, and the urgency to keep a \u201cdialogue platform\u201d active among individuals and peoples, and between the churches and great religions, to refocus and give room to fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A story in line with its own calling, as a place of encounter and formation according to the spirituality of unity, born from Chiara Lubich\u2019s charisma.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327928","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=327928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}