"If I did not know You, not even my breath would have any meaning.” Sandra Sabattini, the girl from Rimini and friend of Fr. Oreste Benzi, will be beatified on 24th October. There was nothing “heroic” about her 23 years of life if not a great love.
"Christian life, therefore holiness, is taking Baptism seriously". These words of Blessed Ildefonso Schuster, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, describe better than anything else the short life of Sandra Sabattini, who will be proclaimed Blessed on Sunday, Oc...
Luigi Amicone, journalist, writer, a great friend of Fr. Giussani, has passed away. We publish the letter that Julián Carrón has sent to his family.
Dearest Annalena, Francesco, Lucilla, Gloria, Clara, Teresa and Giovanni, I embrace you with all my heart and together with me, the entire Movement.
Right after Giorgio told me the news of Luigino’s death, I went to re-read the pages of a dialogue he h...
The GS Beginning Day as recounted by an ex-GS student. “I looked at the young people sitting in front of me. Then, like now, in a room full of faces and random stories, Someone happens to be present.”
After the embraces and greetings of those who had not seen each other for more than a year, the hundred or so young people from different cities in the Veneto region, who had come to Padua for the GS Beginning Day, slowly took their seats in the hall. The...
The words of the President of the Fraternity of CL at the funeral of Pier Alberto, one of Fr. Giussani's greatest friends, who died on 15 September.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled,” Jesus told His disciples and repeats to each of us today. But howncould the disciples not have been troubled, thinking of what was about to happen? What reason did Jesus give them? What reason does Jesus give us now? ...
The unexpected adventure of “The Tree of Tales” exhibition at the Rimini Meeting as described by those involved. This is what happened during the days of our exhibition, and what is still happening now…
“I believe that, so as not to lose our bearings, we need to make our own the truth contained in good stories […] we need a human story that can speak of ourselves and of the beauty all around us. A narrative that can tell us that we are part of a living a...
