A couple from Croatia and their experience with the Focolare Movement’s “Paths of Light” project
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.
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 10th World Meeting of Families just concluded. “Be the seed of a more fraternal world” was Pope Francis’ mandate to all those families present.
La historia de una familia “ampliada” que se abre a un amor que no es automático
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 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.
From diversity to complementarity, towards reciprocity. This is the theme explored during the long weekend of April 28-May 1, on the occasion of a meeting, in Nocera, which was attended by 16 couples from different regions of Italy.
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In preparation for World Family Day we wanted to make ourselves available to the Irish Church wherever it needed to be.
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The family is a laboratory, a protected and safe environment, where a child develops his personality. Pro-social behaviour is exactly the same.
[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.
Easter Monday is a special Monday: a special day in which everyone is happy. A day to dedicate fully to our relationship so that the beauty of married life would not fade away without us noticing it.
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There is a characteristic which we would like all our children to have: self- esteem.
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A conviction that we have and which must be weeded out is, that there is a bad character and a good character, there is just a character. This is a prejudice which we parents often have. Each child is different, each child has his own character, his own personality.
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