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His friend Chava tells us that \u201cAlejandro never waited to receive<\/strong> when he had an opportunity to give. He showed great patience with us, and waited for us as we tried to learn and live the spirituality of unity<\/a>. Alejandro was killed while he was doing something worthwhile<\/strong> \u2013 visiting a cousin in hospital. He died while loving, as we would all like to die. I ask myself if I am really very radical in the way I live the Gospel, as radical as he was. His death is life, not darkness. It\u2019s a strong push to live our ideal more radically, following Jesus all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n On Saturday, 20 July 2013, Alejandro received the daily \u201cpassword\u201d via WhatsApp.<\/em> The \u201cpassword\u201d is a brief slogan that Focolare members try to put in practice throughout the day. That day the slogan was: ‘Our final exam will be on whether we have loved our neighbour.’ He immediately responded to his friend Andrea who had sent him the password: \u201cThese are powerful words and, yes, you\u2019re right, we have to live it.\u201d Just a few minutes later he was at the hospital bedside of an ill cousin. Suddenly two assassins entered to murder someone, and the unfortunate witnesses of the crime were also killed.<\/p>\n Alejandro met the young people of the Focolare in 2011. Right away he wanted to know more about the ideal that animated their lives, and he began living Jesus\u2019 message with them. His life became a testimony of God\u2019s love for others, in everything he did: in the family, with his friends, at work and with many other people as well.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat struck me most about him,\u201d says David, \u201cwas seeing the strong mark that he\u2019s left in so many people. . . and also his great desire and thirst for God<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n The Gen<\/a> from Torreon write: \u201cWe consider our friend, Alexander, as a martyr for the united world, <\/strong>and for this reason his blood is not a tragedy, but a blessing for anyone who wants to unite in the battle for peace in our region, in our country and in the world.<\/p>\n During these days when the World Youth Day is taking place in Brazil, Pope Francis has urged more than a million young people to be radical in the faith. Alejandro is certainly someone who did not step back, but took this invitation to heart. And he put into practice Chiara Lubich<\/a>\u2019s constant appeal to the young: \u201cAim high!\u201d This is why he leaves behind such a trail of light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The murder of a young Mexican member of the Focolare Movement, who was an inconvenient witness to a crime while visiting a cousin in hospital. Friends remember him here.<\/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-342130","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\/342130","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=342130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Testimonio-Alejandro-Rodr\u00edguez-Adame_c.jpg\")
For the Young For Unity Group in Torreon<\/a>, Mexico \u2013 an area immersed in violence \u2013 it was a shocking blow, and yet they responded courageously \u201cso that the spiritual richness would not be lost\u201d of their friend\u2019s life with whom they shared a commitment to give witness to universal brotherhood and to spread a culture of non-violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Testimonio-Alejandro-Rodr\u00edguez-Adame_b.jpg\")
\u201cI knew him from when we first began this adventure,\u201d Willie recounts, \u201cI was very struck by his willingness and his ability to immediately put into practice every new point of the spirituality of unity that he discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n