{"id":341404,"date":"2012-09-22T03:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/proclaiming-the-gospel-through-music\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:38","slug":"proclaiming-the-gospel-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/proclaiming-the-gospel-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Proclaiming the Gospel Through Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Young people, who have made a decision to proclaim the Gospel by music, started the bands Eis<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (meaning \u2018one\u2019 in Greek) and Hope. <\/em>They come from Teramo and Fermo in Italy<\/a>. They see themselves as part of the Focolare\u2019s Diocesan Movement and are working in their dioceses. Already they have met thousands of people.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hope<\/em> started in 1995,\u2019 Fabio says, \u2018when Pope John Paul II held the \u201cEurhope\u201d meeting for young Europeans. It was an unforgettable event and has been followed by many other occasions where Hope<\/em> has given, as it continues to give, its contribution in the diocese of Fermo and beyond.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Eis<\/em>, on the other hand, only started three years ago,\u2019 Alice explains. \u2018It was during a youth summer camp run by the diocese of Teramo. The group has already met more that four and a half thousand people in 17 concerts.\u2019<\/p>\n

What about publicity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018The bands are getting known spontaneously,\u2019 says Alice. \u2018Someone really likes a concert and then invites us to their own town. Perhaps a journalist writes an article, a local radio asks for an interview… and then shows follow on, one from one another, everywhere from church halls to stages set up in the squares for the whole town. The blogs of the two bands are full of enthusiastic people, some quite young, who really like what we\u2019re doing. It\u2019s not just people liking it though. Often there are chances to meet and even real changes happen in people\u2019s lives!\u2019<\/p>\n

But the \u2018bands don\u2019t want to be only about the things they do,\u2019 Alice and Fabio both point out. \u2018Before all else,\u2019 says Fabio, \u2018we strive to be united, so that each of us who makes up the group tries to live with mutual love at the basis of everything. And then we do what needs to be done \u2013 we\u00a0 prepare the show, gather everyone\u2019s ideas, take time to do numerous rehearsals…\u2019<\/p>\n

It can\u2019t all be easy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Of course nothing\u2019s simple,\u2019 Fabio immediately says. \u2018But every time we try to start again, expressing our ideas and, at the same time, being ready to put them aside if they\u2019re not needed. We want everything to be born from the unity of our group, from the unity that makes Jesus present among us (Matt. 18:20).\u2019<\/p>\n

Hope<\/em> and Eis<\/em> at the moment are doing two separate musicals on the life of Chiara Luce Badano<\/a>, a young person from the Focolare beatified in 2010. The shows speak of a modern person, one who can be copied. They show a young woman who knew how make her life into an amazing \u2018work of art\u2019, managing to accept illness and death at 18 years of ago as God\u2019s love for her and for her family.<\/p>\n

\u2018The written impressions that we have from the concerts are extremely positive,\u2019 Alice says. \u2018For someone called Giuliana, of example, the figure of Chiara Luce managed make a whole town wake up to the issue of holiness.\u2019<\/p>\n

Chiara Lubich<\/strong><\/a> suggested music to young people, at the end of the 60s, as an instrument for evangelizing. The two well-known groups, Gen Rosso<\/em><\/a> and Gen Verde<\/em><\/a>, were started. Other bands\u00a0 also began, like Gen 70<\/em> in the parish of Vallo Torinese (in Piedmont). One of the people who formed it, Maria Orsola<\/a> (who died when she was 15) is currently in the process of being beatified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young people spreading a message of joy and hope by means of music. Bands that sing out the Gospel and offer an experience that is radical and deeply committed.<\/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-341404","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\/341404","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=341404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}