Letters - 2023
![People in Prague pay their respects to the victims at the scene of the massacre (Photo Ansa/Epa/Martin Divisek)](/cm-files/img/2023/12/28/praga-ansa-b-n.jpg)
Bewildered faces on the trams, newspaper articles, masses for the victims and people's donations. A few days after the massacre at the university, a letter from Fr. Stefano, priest of the Fraternity of St Charles in the capital of the Czech Republic.
![Martiros Saryan, 'Ararat and Saint Hripsime Church', 1945](/cm-files/img/2023/11/22/ararat-and-saint-hripsime-church-1945-jpg-large-n.jpg)
A shared Armenian evening with friends in a small town in Luxembourg. Armenian dishes, art and music, to re-discover the "mysterious attractiveness of the beauty and the truth through the unknown."
![Indi with her mother (Facebook)](/cm-files/img/2023/11/15/indi3-b-n.jpg)
The story of the little English girl, her death, her parents. What does it mean to care until the end? A doctor's letter
![Encuentro Quito, Ecuador](/cm-files/img/2023/11/06/encuentroquito-b-n.jpg)
Encuentro Quito 2023, a 'small meeting' dedicated to peace in the South American country, for months the scene of violence and a climate of social insecurity.
![Vilnius (Photo: Unsplash/Dan Marian Stefan Doroghi)](/cm-files/img/2023/10/30/dan-marian-stefan-doroghi-unsplash-b-n.jpg)
CL celebrated thirty years in the Baltic country. An event in Vilinus attended by many friends, including from Italy: "We felt part of the same people".
![The Be'eri kibbutz after the October 7 attack (Ansa-Dpa/Ilia Yefimovich)](/cm-files/img/2023/10/16/kibbutz-be-eri-ilia-yefimovich-dpa-ansa-copia-b-n.jpg)
A Ukrainian refugee in Italy, she turned 21 on October 7, the day of the Hamas attacks. She had planned to celebrate with friends, but in the face of so much horror, amidst tears, she could not pretend that nothing had happened...
![The Meeting's exhibition on the Trappist monastery of Azer, Syria (Archivio Meeting))](/cm-files/img/2023/09/15/azermeeting-b-n.jpg)
They curated and explained the exhibition on the Trappist monastery of Azer, at the Rimini Meeting: the account of the preparation and the days lived by the volunteers who acted as "guides".
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Fr. Pier is a missionary in Karaganda and had the opportunity to participate in the Pope's visit to the Asian country. Here is his account.
![The exhibition of Charles Péguy (Archivio Meeting)](/cm-files/img/2023/09/07/meetingpeguy-b-n.jpg)
A young university graduate recounts her two days in Rimini. Here is what struck and enthused her about what she saw.
![A hike during the holiday](/cm-files/img/2023/09/06/photo-2023-07-25-15-41-00-b-n.jpg)
The walks in the Dolomites, a party in the village square, the news of a friend's death. And a question that weaves through the few days spent together: what does it really mean to undertake a journey?
![The presentation of "The Religious Sense" in Garching bei München](/cm-files/img/2023/08/30/2023-07-14-20-46-16-b-n.jpg)
A small community near Munich that takes seriously the challenge of what it means to “be a presence”. The result is the presentation of "The Religious Sense" in the parish, and not only.
![The evening of songs in the parish of Bonnevoie, Luxembourg](/cm-files/img/2023/07/13/lussemburgo-b-n.jpg)
On the occasion of the Bonnevoie parish festival, the CL community proposed an exhibition on Fr. Giussani and an evening of songs to all.
![The Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher (Photo: Raimond Klavis/Unplash)](/cm-files/img/2023/07/12/raimond-klavins-xvt-h-igqwu-unsplash-b-n.jpg)
Seven retirees in Jerusalem to serve the works of the Custody of the Holy Land. Humble works in the holy places, and many encounters with those who live Christianity in that land full of contradictions.
![(Photo: Finan Akbar Ohoun/Unsplash)](/cm-files/img/2023/07/12/finan-akbar-ohoun94xtf8-unsplash-b-n.jpg)
She was born in Rome, lived in Milan where she married a Japanese man. And in 1980 she had moved with her family to Hiroshima. She was at the origin of the CL community in Japan. The normal story of a special woman.
![A bombed hospital in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region (Photo: Ansa-Zumapress)](/cm-files/img/2023/07/10/vilnianskansa-copia-b-n.jpg)
A doctor in Venice, through friendship with a colleague in Uzhorod, has become involved in several missions to the war-torn country over the past year.
![The CL community welcomes the Pope in Budapest](/cm-files/img/2023/06/20/visitadelpapa-clungherese-b-n.jpg)
The Fraternity Exercises, the Pope's visit to Budapest, European Responsibles' Diaconia. For the Hungarian community, "This is how God came looking for us."
![Monsignor Paolo Pezzi with Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio to Syria](/cm-files/img/2023/06/15/siria-russia-b-n.jpg)
Not since 2011 had such a large group of pilgrims visited Syria. They were a group of 44 Russian Catholic and Orthodox faithful led by Monsignor Paolo Pezzi in the footsteps of St. Paul. An account of those days
![Photo: Unsplash/Brandi Alexandra](/cm-files/img/2023/05/29/unsplash-brandi-alexandra-b-n.jpg)
A Sunday morning with the Missionaries of Charity among the homeless. Gerald's coffee, Cyrian's gaze, the Gospel gifted among the tents... An account of a day of charitable work in San Francesco.
![In the countryside of Lugo (Photo Ansa)](/cm-files/img/2023/05/25/lugoansa-b-n.jpg)
More stories and testimonies from the territories flooded in Emilia Romagna. Because you can help even at a distance, even without your boots or hands in the mud.
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"In the face of what is happening, either you stop at appearances, or you go to the bottom of what you consist of, and become aware of who you are." Two testimonies from Forlì and Cesena.
![The visit to the Shrine of Our Lady Consolata in Paljurska during the vacation of the Balkan communities in Macedonia](/cm-files/img/2023/05/12/vacanza-balcani-b-n.jpg)
From Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Romania... The small communities of the movement from the Balkans gathered in Macedonia at the end of March for a vacation.