A couple from Croatia and their experience with the Focolare Movement’s “Paths of Light” project
Alice Carwardine, an Australian Catholic, began her ecological conversion during Lent 2018, by writing a list of exactly forty changes. In seeking a Gospel text to serve as inspiration for this conversion, she chose the moment when Jesus enters the temple and overturns the tables of the money changers and the chairs of the dove sellers (Mt 21:12).
The existence of struggling couples, separated couples and those in new unions is a cry for help in the world. The “New Families Movement”, a branch of the Focolare, endeavours to support these families.
The Loreto School, the freshness of the first 40 years.
This year five families from four continents are attending the school, which was inaugurated by Chiara Lubich, who also indicated the name “Loreto”. Since 1982, 500 others have participated, while almost 1,500 families have stayed for shorter periods.
The Focolare Movement is a partner of the Laudato Si’ Movement for the Care of Creation. Tomas Insua, the Executive Director, speaks of the great synergy in the commitment to improve our common home.
“Love excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Everything! Anything! It is love in spite of everything.
La historia de una familia “ampliada” que se abre a un amor que no es automático
We publish a series of interventions that Mario Iasevoli, PhD in Medical, Clinical and Experimental Sciences at the University of Padua, held in Loppiano in March 2017 as part of the Family Highlights event for the 50th anniversary of the birth of New Families.
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All the families who are now, or ever will be, in the world, can look to the family of Nazaret as a model and prototype.
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I think that Mary is very happy with these families that in some ways are like the first Christian families.
[more]This publication now brings together in a single printable digital version the 10 guides, accompanying the special edition with the collection of 10 videos of the pope in dialogue with families (already individually available on the website www.amorislaetitia.va).
With these words the Holy Father introduces us to the theme of the education of children, which is “a call, a challenge, a joy”.
Developed within the Focolare Movement, Up2Me has been piloted so far in 28 countries. It grew from the need frequently expressed by children and youth who find themselves facing big issues like life, health, sexuality, modern life styles, emotions, future life choices … without adequate tools to deal with them.
The Holy Father speaks about “foreverness” in marriage, in this fifth video of the 10-part series prepared as part of the celebration of the «Amoris Laetitia Family» Year. This time Pope Francis addresses himself particularly to spouses.
“Don’t be afraid to fail: fear is the greatest obstacle to welcoming Christ and His plan for our lives! Be careful of fear!”, the Holy Father powerfully warns us.
The search for a relationship, the desire to share life with someone beside you, is a natural need that we have all felt or dreamed about, but it can remain a figment of the imagination or become couple a reality.
[more]They are families that seem like the others, but in reality they have a secret of love, because they are united to each other and distinct, in a certain way as in the family of Nazareth.
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Even though the economical sacrifice is great, we feel this moment of formation is precious, for our individual growth, as parents, in our social life, to have the right priorities and to sow an eternal seed in our daughter.
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