October 15, 2022 marks the Centenary of the birth of the Servant of God Fr. Luigi Giussani. This year offers the opportunity to deepen and learn more about his story and the newness it continues to bring today to the lives of many and to the service of the Church.
Here you can find the main events and initiatives, including interviews, stories, videos: people or facts that speak of him and of the people generated by his experience. For information and proposals contact Centenary
From the Vatican, October 18, 2022 Dear Brother, I would like to express my thanks for the letter dated October 15, which you sent to me on behalf of the movement of Communion and Liberation. I greatly appreciated the expressions of your affection ...
1982, Pontifical Recognition of the Fraternity: “What has happened (…) is certainly the greatest grace in the entire history of the movement” (Fr. Giussani) 2002, 20th anniversary of pontifical recognition of the Fraternity: “The letter which the Ho...
BRAZIL Travelling to Italy from São Paulo just to attend a meeting and returning the next day was not my idea of how to spend my few days of vacation and how to spend my money. But when Fr. Aurelio enthusiastically spoke to us of the beauty of gathering ...
The first thing that prompted me to watch the Audience live was a very human desire: to be part, in my own way, of what was happening to all the people dearest to me. They were all there. For what reason? Because of a story of gratitude. For nothing else ...
Rafael Gerez. You’re relatively young, but you had the opportunity to meet Fr. Luigi Giussani personally and to enter into a relationship with him while you were a university student involved with the young people of CL. What did the encounter with him me...
I am a teacher and have taught for the last 34 years in the village of Mutuati, 200 kilometres north of Nairobi, in Kenya. This June I will retire, having reached the compulsory age of retirement that is sixty years. I am married with a family of twelve c...
"I saw the same work we are doing here: the verification of faith in the totality of life. Today those people, even though they are on the other side of the world, are my friends because they help me grow in this.” For Giovanni Pellegrini, a fifth-year ph...
When Fr. Carrón announced the centenary of the birth of Fr. Giussani, he proposed that we take a personal interest in the gesture for a single and essential reason: “To witness what Fr. Giussani has generated in us.” I was provoked to consider what differ...
Communion and Liberation is a very small reality in Tunisia: the Memores Domini women (Fausta, Giovanna, Olivia, Chicca, Maria Luisa, Laura), and Paolo and Giorgio – the two "musketeers" as we jokingly call them – are here for work. There are very few of...
A few weeks ago, in the headquarters of the Apostolic Vicariate in Alexandria, Egypt, Monsignor Claudio Lurati, Apostolic Vicar of the Latins in Egypt, inaugurated the celebration of the Centenary of Fr. Giussani's birth with a greeting to all those prese...
In Paris we celebrated the centenary of Fr. Giussani's birth. They were two wonderful days, including meetings, exhibitions, and above all life together. A totally unexpected richness, which surprised everyone, starting with those who were encountering us...
In 2012, the Archbishop of Milan accepted the petition to open the cause for the beatification and canonization of Fr. Giussani. Here is the text of the private intercession, cemetery hours and other information.