Focolare Ireland Spring Gathering in Dungarvan, 13th to 16th April 2023

A representative group from all over Ireland took part in the “Spring Gathering”. The THEME was:
LET’S CONNECT WITH GOD, WITH EACH OTHER, WITH NATURE AND WITH SOCIETY.
The Mariapolis is the Focolare summer gathering where people of all ages, backgrounds and faiths meet to take timeout together. It is like a retreat but different because it is lived together with each day having talks, workshops, outings and fun, moments of reflection and discussion.
Focolare takes its inspiration from Jesus’ prayer: “May they all be one” (Jn 17:21) and includes Christians of various denominations, followers of the major world religions and people with other beliefs.
A “little city” where the only law is love.
Many summer Mariapolises are held in a variety of settings, with different programs, yet each of these temporary “Cities of Mary” (hence the name Mariapolis) is a portion of society renewed by evangelical love. Cultural, racial, religious and generational differences disappear in this mosaic of humanity made one family by a common desire to live out the Golden Rule “Do to others as you would want done to you”.
Mariapolis is an occasion to gather with many and, in a dialogue of true openness, learn to be a gift for one another.
A representative group from all over Ireland took part in the “Spring Gathering”. The THEME was:
LET’S CONNECT WITH GOD, WITH EACH OTHER, WITH NATURE AND WITH SOCIETY.
A Mariapolis took place in Iceland 22nd-25th June.
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