Belgium, a people in search
LettersThe Pope's visit was a provocation, not only for Catholics. It reopened questions even among non-believers who sang in the choir and were deeply marked by the visit.
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Letters - 2024
Bethlehem: A path that continues
LettersRafiq Nahra, patriarchal vicar for Israel in Nazareth, led the movement's Beginning Day in the Holy Land. In in Arabic for the first time
Twenty minutes of emotion
LettersA Russian lady who has known the Meeting for some time is at the fair for Navalny's book presentation. Thanks to a borrowed smartphone she is able to listen to the live broadcast. Then the tears: “Here you are talking about my country.”
Free again
LettersMeeting GS and the boy who would become her husband. A path that was then no longer shared, until a friend's invitation and the idea of starting School of Community again.
That "piece of heaven" in Athens
LettersThe Fraternity Exercises for the small community of Greece, inviting friends from other movements. An account of an “event of grace, unity and deep communion.”
Malaysia: At the origin of a friendship
LettersGames, songs, a testimony, and good food. The chronicle of a day spent sharing themselves with other families, parishioners and colleagues, rediscovering a sense of true freedom.
Japan: What does it have to do with the stars?
LettersA small group of friends from Hiroshima and Tokyo, who live at a distance for most of the year, spent a few days together in the mountains to deepen their friendship. The Japanese community's first vacation.
GS Uganda: With eyes wide open to beauty
LettersAn account of the vacation of the young people from the Luigi GiussanI High School in Kampala on Lake Bunyonyi in the south of the country. Unexpected events, games, breath-taking scenery... And “a prince's wedding” lunch.
To not get used to the bombs
LettersA teacher, a student “wounded” by the war in Ukraine, and an Oscar-winning film that is like a “punch in the stomach,” but also an invitation to rediscover the Pope's call for peace.
Brazil: “The hug that reaches your marrow”
LettersA trip to Salvador de Bahia, after listening to the testimony of Paola Cigarini who has been working among the favelados for years. "To understand where the gaze I saw in her comes from."
"What I saw at the Rhein Meeting"
LettersTwo days in Cologne for the event organised by CL. This year's title: "Why are we not enough for ourselves?". Luca speaks of the faces of friends who came from all over Germany, and the amazement "for what the memory of Christ gives us."
Germany: "The only force to oppose hatred and war"
LettersWhile the World Security Conference was taking place, the Munich CL community organised a moment of prayer for peace to which Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher also participated.
Taipei: "A friend in our home"
LettersThe presentation of his book at the Fujen University, the Mass for Fr. Giussani, the School of Community with young workers…Monsignor Massimo Camisasca's visit to Taiwan.
Chile: "That gift that we are already living"
LettersThe CL community vacation at the foot of the Chillán volcano: hikes, testimonies, and listening to Russian and local songs. With the evidence "of a Presence that is already happening in our lives.”
Caterina and that 'yes' to say in every moment
LettersThe news of pregnancy, the joy and gratitude. Then, the diagnosis of a disease that would not allow the baby to survive. "I was overwhelmed by pain and anger," says the mother. Until an encounter...
"A sweet Companionship"
LettersJone Echarri's letter to friends of the movement after the death of her husband Carras: “I am serene and confident. I ask you to continue to accompany me."
Japan: "No longer luck or misfortune"
LettersMarco has been living away from Italy for eight years. A job with many uncertainties and tight deadlines, which put his health and family balance at risk. Despite feeling 'at home' in his new CL community, something was not right. A testimony from Tokyo