{"id":342910,"date":"2014-03-27T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/recife-the-chiara-lubich-chair\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:12:10","slug":"recife-the-chiara-lubich-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/recife-the-chiara-lubich-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Recife. The Chiara Lubich Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fraternity, in this case, is not \u201ca romantic or solely religious value, <\/strong>but an appeal to the intelligence, a concrete project that accepts the risk of history,\u201d of a country, of Brazil<\/a>, which is \u201cmarked by serious inequalities, but also emerging as a country that occupies a strategic position in the world.\u201d These were the opening words of Jesuit Pedro Rubens,<\/strong> Rector of UNICAP describing the significance of the Chair. Prof Paolo Muniz<\/strong>, Director of the Asces Faculty (the project partner) added: \u201cThese universities now turn their reflection and research to the work of Chiara Lubich <\/a>who, aside from being a great spiritual leader, is also an inspirer of a new light that illuminates all fields of human knowledge.\u201d Focolare president, Maria Voce was invited<\/strong> to give the opening address at the <\/strong>event, which was the heart of her visit <\/strong>to Brazil<\/a>. During her presentation she described the anthropological vision of the human person that emerges from the spirituality of Chiara, which is firmly rooted in Scripture. Voce began by asking who the human person is. In answering this question, she examined the dynamic of Love in the Triune God, the reflection of this love in human life and in the cosmos and the call to be \u201cLove-in-relation\u201d. She recalled that \u201cwe are, if we are the other\u201d which means \u201cbeing empty of ourselves,\u201d \u201ctotal gift of ourselves.\u201d The lifestyle that springs from this dynamic provides the \u201cfertile ground for authentic humanism, concrete fraternity.\u201d The Bishop of Palmares, Dom Gerival Saraiva,<\/strong> highlighted the social dimension of knowledge, which can be understood in more concrete terms thanks to projects such as this. \"\"The thought of Chiara Lubich has been the object of study and research in several universities, and in several different academic areas. The Focolare founder received 16 honorary doctorates and degrees<\/a>, the 1996 UNESCO Peace Education Award, and the 1998 European Council\u2019s Human Rights Award. In honour of the occasion, Cidade Nova published a new book entitled: Fraternidade e Humanismo: uma leitura interdisciplinare do pensamento de Chiara Lubich (Fraternity and Humanism: an interdisciplinary approach to the thought of Chiara Lubich). <\/em>\u00a0<\/em> For further reading:<\/strong> Opening Address by Maria Voce in Italian<\/a> At the Catholic University of Recife, the Chiara Lubich Chair for fraternity and humanism \u2013 Radio Vaticana <\/a> Universidades lan\u00e7am C\u00e1tedra sobre fraternidade e humanismo<\/a> \u2013 Cidade Nova UNICAP cria a catedra Chiara Lubich de fraternidade e humanismo \u2013 Rede Globo<\/a> http:\/\/www.catedrachiaralubich.org\/<\/a> Follow the journey on<\/strong> the<\/strong>\u00a0 Mariapolis Journal – login required<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 25, 2014. The Chiara Lubich Chair is established at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP) to promote the study of fraternity and humanism.<\/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-342910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342910","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=342910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}