{"id":341570,"date":"2012-12-13T07:44:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/brazil-the-federal-senate-commemorates-focolares-founding\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:10","slug":"brazil-the-federal-senate-commemorates-focolares-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/brazil-the-federal-senate-commemorates-focolares-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: the Federal Senate commemorates Focolare’s founding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u2018On 7 December 1943 Chiara Lubich had no intention of starting a Movement. All she wished to do was \u201cmarry God\u201d and she consecrated herself to him; he was everything for her. Only later on was this act seen as the symbolic beginning of the Focolare Movement<\/a>.\u00a0 Nonetheless, as Chiara wrote at a later date, on that day her \u201cinner joy was inexplicable, secret, but contagious.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

In Brasilia <\/a>7 December 2012 the Federal Senate met in a plenary session<\/strong> for a solemn ceremony to commemorate the Movement\u2019s beginning and its founder, Chiara Lubich<\/a>. Important politicians from Brazil were present.<\/p>\n

The event, held in the Senate Hall, was presided over by Senator Wellington Dias. Among those present were Luiza Erundina, a member of Congress, Senator Pedro Simon, Deputy for the State of Amazonas, Jos\u00e9 Ricardo Wendling, of the federal judiciary, Reinaldo Fonseca, and Nilson Mourao, the Secretary for Justice and Human Rights. Mgr Marcony, parish Priest of Brasilia Cathedral gave a greeting.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Luiza Erundina (Brazilian Socialist Party,\u00a0Deputy for S\u00e3o Paulo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Guliana Fonseca, on behalf of the Focolare Movement<\/strong>, read a message <\/a>from the Movement\u2019s President, Maria Voce<\/a>, who thanked \u2018those who have organized, supported and run the event.\u2019 She mentioned, among the Movement\u2019s various activities in Brazil, the three little towns and their witness to the spirituality of unity and, with special emphasis, the Economy of Communion<\/a> project \u2018which in 1991 began in the social context of Brazil and which is currently taking off in many other parts of the world.\u2019<\/p>\n

The message concludes by saying, \u2018I take this opportunity to renew our commitment to work with many \u201cmen and women of good will\u201d so that society may be guided by robust ethical principles, such as justice, equality, liberty, solidarity, the common good, peace.\u2026 For the construction of a civilization that seeks to bring humanity into one large family, with full respect for our diverse cultures and religious traditions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Among those who spoke were Sergio Previdi, President of the Brazilian Movement for Unity in Politics<\/a>, and Andr\u00e9 Rodrigues Pereira who, on behalf of the Focolare\u2019s young people, presented the United World Project<\/a> launched at Genfest 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source\/photo gallery: www.focolares.org.br<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A solemn ceremony on 7 December 2012 in a plenary session of the Senate with speeches by the nation\u2019s politicians to commemorate the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-341570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341570","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}