The topics, the faces, the App to book exhibitions and meeting, the pavilion for kids and sports... A month to go until the Rimini event, we take stock of the new edition with the director, Emmanuele Forlani...
Their encounter with Fr. Giussani, marriage, their yes to mission. "By always remaining attached to this story, things began to happen…. The testimony of Margaret and Mauro Biondi.
"Why are you getting married in Sicily?" asked Fr. Giussani. "Because that is where our story began," Margaret replied. But he pretended not to understand, recalls Mauro, a Sicilian who has lived in Ireland for almost forty years. "Fr. Giussani knew that ...
Fr. Giussani's bond with the Buddhist monks of Mount Koya. Saito Wakako recounts how she was born and raised: Fr. Ricci, the Cascinazza, the Rimini Meeting. And the tragedy of the tsunami. A friendship that is the sign of authentic religiosity.
My name is Wakako Saito and, by family tradition and that of my homeland, Japan, I am a Buddhist. Since 1990 I have been a researcher at the Koyasan University in Mount Koya, where I study and work on the dialogue between Buddhists and Catholics. I spent ...
From different cities in Kazakhstan and Italy to the mountains of Almaty. To spend four days together. And learn to recognize Christ present, "who is mysteriously incarnated before our eyes."
Without a doubt we can say that the main protagonist of the vacation we spent in Almaty in early July was the heart. A heart filled with the desire to satisfy the thirst for beauty, truth, meaning, happiness. A heart that is loved and embraced. One hundre...
The Lithuanian CL community's three-day vacation. In a time of fatigue for all, an experience of unity, charity and gladness, and the surprise of being "loved and loving before the Presence that brought us together."
In mid-July, I went to Lithuania to visit our friends from the community. I went to Vilnius together with Giuseppe, Giorgio and Marco. As soon as we arrived we realized, through what our friend Darius was telling us, how dramatic the situation in Lithuani...
Raphaella Wang, Jen-Chuan, Lucy, Rebecca Tsai and Kun-Li. Some "portraits" from the CL community in Taiwan that are included in the exhibition for the presentation of the Chinese edition of Why the Church.
For the launch of the Chinese edition of Why the Church in Taiwan, missionaries from the Fraternity of St. Charles Borromeo asked several people from their parish and community to recount what the Church is for them and how it changes their lives. Along w...
Chesterton's "The Surprise," Giovanni Scifoni's Saints, Roberto Mercadini's Leonardo and Michelangelo. ... The theatre and music shows on the agenda at the Rimini Meeting.
Thirteen exhibitions covering the most diverse themes: the centenary of Giussani, Pessoa, Families for Hospitality, science, photography... Here is what we will find among the pavilions of the Rimini Meeting.
"It is the centenary of his birth. It was inconceivable that, in addition to the meetings about him, there would not be something else, a physical place that can be seen and visited." Thus ‘Giussani 100’, the virtual exhibition on the founder of CL, which...
Jone Echarri is the physical therapist who worked with Fr. Giussani during his illness. We offer here an extract from her testimony at the International Days dedicated to the founder of CL (Madrid, March 31–April 2, 2022). From August Traces.
Luigi Giussani is a man who was surprised, seduced, and captured forever by the event of Christ. This encounter dominated his whole life and was the reason for his entire existence: to live and bear witness to the beauty that had called him and which he h...
The topics, the faces, the App to book exhibitions and meeting, the pavilion for kids and sports... A month to go until the Rimini event, we take stock of the new edition with the director, Emmanuele Forlani.
There is less than a month to go and in Rimini friends, volunteers, professionals, young and old, are all abuzz preparing for the Meeting, the first edition that will be completely open to the public after the pandemic. What to expect from this edition? W...
The contribution of the President of the fraternity of CL at the theological conference held June 20th at the Pontifical Lateran University, which helps to “look more deeply at what co-essentiality between charism and institution means.”
Responding to Cardinal Kevin Farrell’s invitation to engage in appropriate formation work on the theme of the charisms in the Church, I think it could be useful to share with you, while we wait for the official acts, the video of the theological conferenc...
The virtual exhibition created for the Giussani's centenary of the birth of CL's is now also available in English for Windows and Mac PCs. All the information and instructions for the guided tour can be found on the website.
Although the scenario is different, we re-propose the words of Fr. Giussani on the war in Iraq (Corriere della sera, April 8, 2003), as a contribution to the judgment on the current situation in Ukraine.
Dear Editor,
In the bursting of bombs and the burning of cities, what brings back the truth of things to my eyes is the thought of Jesus’ death. I am not able to explain it to myself except by saying this: following Christ who goes to His death on the ...
The statement released by the movement regarding the conflict. "We are with all those who are working to stop the horror of this war. But how fragile is the desire for peace if it does not become a task, a daily responsibility."
