The world is taken by fear with the burst of COVID19 globally. As a local community of the Focolare Dumaguete City, we braced ourselves for the inevitable. When the first death of a Covid19 patient was reported in our city, we were shaken. It did not take long before we were under a lock down and advised to do home quarantine.
[more]The Covid19 that has been rampant in the world in recent months has been a wake up call for some
[more]This morning a surprise and a lot of joy for our families at Loreto School. On the day of the Annunciation we received a special touch from Mary for her Citadel of Loppiano: the snow!
We proposed to live the quarantine of colours in time of social isolation.
We presented it today to the families to help each other to live as harmoniously and in communion as possible this unforeseen and complex moment. We are all committed to ensuring that the emotional life and communion among all, generated by GIM, will always support families in these difficult days.
The departure of Carlo Casini has caused us heartache, it has left a huge void, it’s almost as if a piece of us is missing.
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A meeting for engaged and young couples was held at Castelgandolfo from the 30th of January till the 2nd of February and the participants came from various countries, including non-European countries. Some sessions of the programme were in common, others distinct so as to go in depth to specific aspects and topics of the two different realities. In any case, the experience gave everyone a new or renewed awareness that “There is only one love” as the title of the course states and that, in this love, they can find the key to live and witness their ‘forever’.
[more]In this period of pandemic by coronavirus from Loreto School a rainbow of hope
[more]We have put this video on our website www.newfamilies.org and have made our own the appeal of these young people .
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Pablo writes to us from Incisa Valdarno, near Florence.
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