{"id":328346,"date":"2016-06-13T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-economy-of-communion-eoc-in-bolivia\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:23","slug":"the-economy-of-communion-eoc-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-economy-of-communion-eoc-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy of Communion (EoC) in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20160613-03\"<\/strong>\u201cCochabamba is really the heart of the country, the fourth largest city of <\/strong>Bolivia<\/a>, located in a fertile valley surrounded by the Andes Mountains. The journey is already preparing me to overcome my own personal mountains and take the leap of leaving behind my culture, presumptions and prejudices so that I can be sufficiently disposed to grasp the beauty of this experience where each of us wishes to be a gift for the other.\u201d \u201cOn the morning of the 26th we visit the Old City,<\/strong> which has a traditional air about it and conserves many colonial images that can be found in the numerous temples and in the large villas. In the afternoon we visit the Universidad <\/em>\u00a0Cat\u00f3lica Boliviana San Pablo<\/em> for a meeting with 70 young people from different departments. Discussions of theory follow experiences that are preceded by a group exercise by Aldo Calliera<\/strong> who invites us to find our true north because \u2013 he says \u2013 the world has lost its compass. For us in the Economy of Communion<\/a>, our north is the other person.\u201d The 1st Conference for EoC business owners began on May 27th<\/strong> and I was fortunate to attend, watching and listening so that I could tell about the extraordinary event that was made up of the stories of many businesses that, day in, day out are putting their money on communion.\u201d In his welcome speech Argentinian business owner, Ram\u00f3n Cervi\u00f1o,<\/strong> reminds us that we\u2019ve come for an experience of communion, because communion is the true wealth of the EoC.\u201d \u201cThe programme takes us to the very roots of the charism of unity<\/a> to rediscover the origins of the EoC. \"20160613-01\"<\/strong>Thus, we go to visit the Centro Rinc\u00f3n de Luz<\/a>, <\/em>a social project that offers academic support to children living in a very poor quarter. Their families don\u2019t always manage to assist them in their school work. They live in small huts of one or two rooms, often under-nourished and even beaten . . . Maricruz, who is now one of the directors, was once herself one of those children. Solidarity begets more solidarity. The virtuous circle of reciprocity is key to responding to such concrete social problems.\u201d \u201cWe also visit the Casa de los Ni\u00f1os<\/em><\/a>. Chiara Lubich<\/a> had once shared that she wished that one day all orphanages could be closed and every child enjoy the warmth and love of a family. Many people like Ar\u00edstides began to follow her dream and got to work wherever and however they could, providing temporary lodging and support for the families of those children who suffer the greatest abandonment, the ones afflicted with AIDS. In the recent years, with the help of others, they\u2019ve been able to offer dignified lodging to a hundred families. In spite of the suffering of those families, many of them HIV positive, the beauty of the little village shows that it\u2019s possible to embrace innocent suffering and fill it with joy, games, flowers and a spirit of hope.\u201d \u201cIn the meeting among Mexican, Paraguayan, Argentinian and Bolivian business owners we share our dreams, failures and successes. A special meeting is held on May 28th at the Gran Hotel Cochabamba<\/em>, with 120 people including business owners, students, experts, officials and people interested in knowing more about a new culture for the economy. Sunday, May 29th is a day of feasting: It\u2019s the 25th anniversary of the Economy of Communion! There is singing, dancing, local foods and much sharing.\u201d \u201cThank you Bolivia for having helped me to rediscover my true north where Heaven and earth seem to mingle.\u201d Source: Website Cono Sur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first conference for Economy of Communion (EoC) business owners in Cochabamba, May 27 \u2013 May 30 with 120 people and their stories of communion.<\/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-328346","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\/328346","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=328346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}