{"id":328726,"date":"2016-11-14T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/an-unstoppable-generation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:41","slug":"an-unstoppable-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/an-unstoppable-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unstoppable Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-144860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/50thGen.jpg\" alt=\"50thGen\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>The <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/scelte-e-impegno\/gen\/\">Gen Movement<\/a><strong> has been around for fifty years<\/strong>, and still possesses the same freshness and the same ideal as when it first began. The Gen are the new generation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chi-siamo\/\">Focolare<\/a>. They will be gathering for their congress at Castel Gandolfo on November 17-20, 2016. A thousand young people will attend from all parts of the world. It\u2019s not just any congress this time, but the big celebration of their 50th anniversary.  <strong>In 1966<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a> <strong>had appealed to the Focolare\u2019s young people<\/strong>, that they engage the greatest number of their peers in living Jesus\u2019s prayer \u201cthat all may be one.\u201d Today, the Gen are everywhere: they belong to different religious faiths, speak many languages and dialects, and show the same enthusiasm and evangelical zeal that they had at the beginning.  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ChiaraLuce_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ChiaraLuce_03.jpg\" alt=\"ChiaraLuce_03\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The first person to be raised to the glory of the altars by living Chiara Lubich\u2019 spirituality of unity, was a Gen \u2013 young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/2012\/10\/29\/beata-chiara-luce-badano\/\">Chiara Luce Badano<\/a>. She died in 1990 at the age of 18 and was beatified in 2010. She has become an example of belief in God\u2019s love, both for young people and adults, even amidst illness and suffering. Each year, her feast day is celebrated around the world on October 29th.  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tanzania_ChiaraLuce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-144874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tanzania_ChiaraLuce.jpg\" alt=\"Tanzania_ChiaraLuce\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago the Gen held a celebration in Iringa,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/focolare-worldwide\/africa\/tanzania\/\">Tanzania <\/a>where they presented her as a model of Christian life. They showed a video on Chiara Luce to a hundred young people, which was followed by testimonies and traditional dances. \u201cI learned so much: for example, that I should love whoever is beside me. Here I discovered that it\u2019s possible to be together in love, despite our differences.\u201d \u201cWhat touches me is Chiara Luce\u2019s patience. She accepted her illness in its entirety, living every moment without complaint.\u201d  Despite all obstacles, the Gen forged ahead, for 50 years. They are truly the<em> &#8220;Unstoppable generation&#8221;!<\/em>  Chiara Favotti  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  Fragments of history of the Gen Movement  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033570  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033565  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033568  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033569  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191039964  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/191033564<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thousand Gen2 from around the world gather in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, for their world congress and to remember one of their own: Chiara Luce Badano.<\/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-328726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328726","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=328726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}