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.
Mariapolis 25-28 July 2024. The summer gathering of the Focolare in Great Britain.
“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.
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.
From the Ecumenical Centre of Ottmaring, Germany, where the General Council of the Focolare Movement is on retreat, an interview with Maria Voce on the Declaration that was made public on February 21, 2017.
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In Birmingham, focolarini animate an elementary school of the Sikh community. The head of a mosque invites them to present the spirituality of unity.
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If you have ever walked in a mountainous region, you will know the joy of pausing for breath as you glance back and see how far you have travelled.
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Ask ten people to describe a Mariapolis, and you will probably get ten very different answers.
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2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Focolare Movement’s section dedicated to the family. It is an ideal opportunity to take the time to appreciate the enduring value of this basic cell of society.
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When you embark on a journey, especially a long and hazardous one, you don’t expect to reach your destination immediately. You value each stage of the journey with its challenges and encounters, trusting in the hope that step by step you will eventually get to where you are going!
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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).
During 19-28 September 2016, a delegation of 40 people from Cameroon, including nine traditional leaders, native Kings of the Bangwa Tribe of Lebialem, Southwest Cameroon, made a pilgrimage to Italy.
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There is no alternative to being together; The Gospel – a source of hope; A culture of respect and esteem; Overcoming divisions; Our commitment: 5 highlights of the concluding message.
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Twenty years after the conferment of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize on Chiara Lubich and on the 8th anniversary of her death (March 14, 2008), an event at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, proposes the culture of dialogue as a means of peace.
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