Genfest 2024, a worldwide Festival of fraternity promoted by the young people of the Focolare Movement, will take place in July at Aparecida, Brazil and it will showcase the “local” commitment of many Focolare communities.
The Prayers for Unity will be held online at 17:50 for 18:00 UK time on every 2nd Monday of the month. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone else who would like to participate.
“Dare to be One. A call from Jesus to live the future, now” was the title of the 40th Ecumenical Conference of Bishops friends of the Focolare Movement, which recently took place in Germany.
Mariapolis 25-28 July 2024. The summer gathering of the Focolare in Great Britain.
What is impossible if we are isolatedbecomes possible if we make reciprocal love and unity the driving force of our lives. There are many ‘little flowers’ that remind us of the early times of the Focolare Movement. Yet, as the experiences show, our hearts are not limited to our locked down environment, but remain open to the needs of our family around the world too.
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There are many ‘little flowers’ that remind us of the early times of the Movement. Yet, as the experiences show, our hearts are not limited to our locked down environment, but remain open to the needs of our family around the world too.
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Hundreds of thousands of teenagers leading the worldwide sports relay race. Boys and girls from different ethnic groups, cultures and religions race together to bear witness to their commitment to peace and to promote a way to reach this peace : the Golden Rule.
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You have already been cleansed by the word I have spoken to you (Jn 15:3).
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Joining in support for the NHS has sparked many initiatives for building fraternity
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Maria Voce, President of the Focolare Movement, sends her Easter greetings: to experience a continuous passing from death to resurrection through love of neighbour. Only in this way will we overcome this painful time of pandemic and other suffering.
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Message of Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, to all those who are preparing for the next Genfest 2024, the event of the Movement’s young people that will take place in Aparecida, Brazil, and in different parts of the world with various local Genfests.
Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we offer a short video documentary on a recent meeting of people from the Focolare Movement belonging to various Churches.
A short video supporting the theme of the year: ‘We are called and we are sent’ – part of the Conference Call of 7 October 2023. ‘By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’ (Jn 13: 35)
Lesley Ellison is from Liverpool. She was the first non-Catholic to enter a Focolare community. Building unity beyond age-old prejudices, distrust and rifts. Generating, day after day, a dialogue that has become a way of life.
Mary and Paul Gateshill speak about the practice of ‘Prayer for Unity’ which gathers people regularly from all over the world. Interview by Andrea Fleming (2022).
“This year for many Christians the days of Holy Week and Easter – which the Western Churches celebrate on April 12, while the Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate on April 19 – will be a special experience because the coronavirus pandemic will prevent them from participating physically in the liturgical celebrations. In the following text that Chiara Lubich wrote during Holy Week in 2000, she suggested how to live these “holy days”.
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Their live streaming sessions from Loppiano keep alive the hope that fraternity can reach everywhere. Their new single is coming out any day now.
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Gen Verde live streaming from Loppiano… #distantimauniti
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