Chris: There are four of us living in the women’s Focolare house in Birmingham: Anja from Germany, Marigia from Portugal, Talita from Brazil and me, English. Many – if not all – Movements in the Church have a ‘rule’. We have one too, it is the size of a small book. The very first page recalls the Gospel of Matthew, ‘Love one another as I have loved you’ with this phrase, called the premise: ‘before anything else, members of the Movement must live mutual and continual charity, that makes unity possible and gives rise to the presence of Jesus.’
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