General Assembly Diary 6, 29 January 2021

Today the Assembly discussed the President’s report on the past six years. The participants received the document over a week ago and so each one had time to examine it in detail. Many questions emerged, some of which were put to the President, Maria Voce, and to the Co-President Jesús Morán in the early afternoon.

On the third and final day of spiritual retreat of the General Assembly, the icon of the Holy Trinity was at the centre of the meditations, reflections and communion. It was presented as a model of a “collective holiness” (Maria Voce) and relationships of love that bring out the “plan of God” on each person (Claudio Guerrieri).

“Who knows if our role is not so much to give ‘light’, but rather to enter into the darkness, into the mud, into the desperation of lack of dignity, […] into the thousands of different kinds of poverty of our times?” This provocative question may best capture the second day of the spiritual retreat of the Focolare General Assembly.