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Maria Voce in Canada, USA and Santo Domingo

March 16, 2011

50 years of the Focolare in North America

The Focolare Movement’s president, Maria Voce, and co-president, Giancarlo Faletti, pay an official month-long visit to North America from March 16th to April 18th. In Canada, the first stage of this trip, they had a meeting with the Canadian Bishops, the Focolare community and a special meeting with young people.

Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti arrived in the United States on March 25th. They will participate in the following events, giving special significance to the 50th anniversary celebrations:

  • April 2 Poughkeepsie, NY: Encounter with U.S. Focolare members.
  • April 3, New York: Solemn Mass of thanksgiving celebrated by Archbishop Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 2:00pm. Open to the public.
  • April 5, New York: Cultural event at Fordham University, with four panels: “The Spirituality of Unity—a Gift for Our Times”; “The Economy of Communion”; “Personal Fulfillment in a Communitarian Spirituality”; and “Love of Neighbor and the Law”. To register go to: Law.fordham.edu/unity
  • April 7, Washington, D.C.: “E pluribus unum”, a program open to the public featuring a multiethnic, multireligious community coming together as one people in the service of unity, at Caldwell Hall, Catholic University of America.
  • April 10, Chicago: Interreligious meeting.
  • April 11, Chicago: Evening theological presentation at DePaul University. For more information contact: foc.chicago@sbcglobal.net
  • April 16, Santo Domingo: Celebrations with the Focolare communities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

For more information about these events go to: www.focolare.us/us/component/registrationpro/events

For those interested in knowing more about the Focolare Movement, its spirituality of communion, and its engagement with various aspects of American culture and life, go to: www.focolare.us.

– Press release

– 50th – brochure

–Interview with Maria Voce. “Memo to a divided church: Meet the Focolare” by John L. Allen Jr. – National Catholic Reporter

– Living City’s exclusive interview with Focolare President Maria Voce. By Clare Zanzucchi

Updated on March 16, 2011

Information Service Focolare – SIF

Three years since Chiara Lubich’s passing

March 14, 2008 – March 14, 2011

“Chiara Lubich: A charism, a life for Christian unity” is the title of this international ecumenical day-meeting on 12th March 2011 in Trent, her native city: one of the many and varied events that will take place in cities around Italy and throughout the world in remembrance of the Focolare Movement’s founder.

Messages from various religious leaders and figures in the Ecumenical world are due to arrive for the event: from Patriarch Bartholomew I of Istanbul; from Card. Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for promoting Christians Unity; and from Rev. Olav Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches. Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement, will offer a reflection during the day.

It will be possible to follow the meeting of 12th March live on satellite TV with Telepace and by internet http://live.focolare.org/20110312/ (9.50-12.30  e 15.00-17.40).

Three new publications on Chiara Lubich:

To know more about Chiara Lubich you can visit the official website of Chiara Lubich’s Center

– Press release

Updated on March 14, 2011

SIF – Focolare Information Service

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