{"id":341754,"date":"2013-03-11T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-five-years-on-a-continuous-presence\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:45","slug":"chiara-lubich-five-years-on-a-continuous-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-five-years-on-a-continuous-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: five years on, a continuous presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Mumbai<\/strong>, India<\/strong><\/a>, there will be several events aiming at understanding more fully the contribution of the charism of unity<\/strong> to dialogue between religions. They will be like a journey that begins with Chiara Lubich\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> visits to India in 2001 and 2003 and finishes with the present day. At the same time in Avellaneda<\/strong>, Argentina<\/strong><\/a>, the charism will be looked at in terms of its dialogue with contemporary culture. In Tanzania<\/strong>, on the other hand, at the Catholic University of Iringa<\/strong> the leading figures will be young people in commemorating the special relationship that linked them to Chiara. And it would be possible to outline many more events throughout the world that will commemorate Chiara Lubich (22 January 1920 to 14 March 2008) five years after her death.<\/p>\n

There will be conferences of a cultural and academic nature, the launching of social initiatives, Eucharistic celebrations, moments of artistic expression. Across the world hundreds of events will be held to look at Chiara\u2019s charismatic impact and to understand more of her thought<\/strong>. Of particular note is the international meeting<\/strong><\/a> that will take place in Rome, called Chiara Lubich: Life, Light and Culture<\/em><\/strong>. It will take place in the Great Hall of the Sapienza University of Rome<\/strong> on 14 March and in the hall of the Mariapolis Centre in Castel Gandolfo<\/strong> on 15 March.<\/p>\n

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This year the anniversary of Chiara Lubich\u2019s death takes place in a historic moment of particular significance for the Roman Catholic Church, which is focused upon the important task of choosing a successor to Benedict XVI<\/strong>. The Movement\u2019s members are very aware of it and they will take this opportunity to witness still more to the vitality and effectiveness of the Ideal of Unity<\/strong> in every aspect of human life, in every point of the earth. It is a treasure that can be offered to the whole Church, possibly with greater decisiveness now more than ever, to put into practice what two popes, first\u00a0John Paul II<\/strong> and later Benedict XVI<\/strong>, have wished for the Movement, namely to make \u201cthe Church always more the home and the school of communion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

There will also be events of a particularly ecumenical character, for instance, in Geneva, Swizterland<\/a><\/strong>, where the event has the full backing of the city\u2019s Ecumenical Centre, and in Oslo, Norway<\/a><\/strong>, where participants representing the various churches will come together in a spirit of communion. And, to give another example, in San Antonio, Texas (USA<\/a>)<\/strong>, on 23 February there has already been conference looking specifically at the spirituality of communion. Furthermore, in Thailand<\/a>, Korea<\/a>, Melbourne in Australia<\/a>, and in the whole of Europe<\/a><\/strong> there will special occasions where it will possible to say \u2018thank you\u2019 and speak about a person who is recognized as one of the leading figures of the twentieth century, one who opened previously unexplored ways of dialogue to promote cohesion among individuals and peoples of different religions and cultures, and so promote peace and universal brotherhood.<\/p>\n

To find out more about these initiatives across the world, click here: https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 14 March 2008 Chiara Lubich died. Five years on, Chiara, the founder of the Focolare Movement, will be commemorated in many ways across the world. The backdrop is the preparations by the Movement\u2019s members to welcome Roman Catholic Church\u2019s new Pope.<\/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":[893,894],"tags":[2804],"class_list":["post-341754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2","tag-5th-anniversary-chiara-lubich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341754","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=341754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}