{"id":389016,"date":"2025-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=389016"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:43:35","slug":"the-freedom-that-comes-from-facing-up-to-your-own-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-freedom-that-comes-from-facing-up-to-your-own-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The freedom that comes from facing up to your own history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the second half of September 2025, the General Council of the Focolare Movement met with the Delegates from its 15 geographical regions of the world at the Mariapolis Centre in Castel Gandolfo (Rome). \u201cExploring our History\u201d was the title of a session in which, among other contributions and moments of sharing, participants heard the powerful and deeply moving experience of the <g id=\"gid_0\">Regnum Christi<\/g> Movement through the testimony of <g id=\"gid_1\">Eugenia \u00c1lvarez<\/g>, a consecrated member and a current member of its General Council. Eugenia offered an interpretation, in the light of the Gospel, of some particularly troubled periods of their movement&#8217;s journey and of the subsequent path of healing that led to a renewed momentum and a revival of vocations.  <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201c<em>In order to discover how we are called to live the present,\u201d she said, \u201cwe need to connect with our deepest aspirations, read the history through which God has shaped us and recognise the concrete reality in which we find ourselves: the people we are and the circumstances in which we live.\u201d<\/em> These words referred to discernment of the present reality, a process born from a balance between hopes and history.<\/p>\n\n<p>After her presentation, we had the opportunity to interview her. Here is what she shared with us: <\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong>Activate English subtitles \u2013 The original is in Spanish<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intervista Eugenia\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGcwuxlZgoE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em><strong>Eugenia \u00c1lvarez<\/strong> is from Venezuela and has been a consecrated member of Regnum Christi since 1999. She holds degrees in Education and Development from the An\u00e1huac University (Mexico) and in Religious Sciences from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome). She has studied Spiritual Theology at the S\u00e8vres Centre in Paris and has completed courses in Spain to become a \u201cSpecialist in Spiritual Exercises\u201d and in the \u201cTheology of Consecrated Life\u201d.   <\/em> <em>She currently serves as General Councillor of the Society of Apostolic Life \u201cConsecrated Women of Regnum Christi.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Photo \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/regnumchristi.org\/\">https:\/\/regnumchristi.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:152px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Eugenia \u00c1lvarez, General Councillor of the Society of Apostolic Life, \u201cConsecrated Women of Regnum Christi\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":389011,"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":[2893,2839],"tags":[4100,4123,3349,3196,4122],"class_list":["post-389016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centro-internazionale-2","category-chiesa-2","tag-di1-en","tag-movimenti-e-nuove-comunita-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en","tag-regnum-christi-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389016","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=389016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389021,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389016\/revisions\/389021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}