The book is also available for purchase through McGill-Queen's University Press. The book can also be acquired in pounds sterling. Father Luigi Giussani engaged tirelessly in educational initiatives throughout the course of his life. Much of his thoug...
Translated by John Zucchi. (The book is also available for purchase through HAB Books) The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature ...
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a pun...
In his introduction, Fr. Julián Carrón asks: "Why is hospitality a miracle? It seems like something we should take for granted—opening the door of our home and letting someone in should be normal." And yet, he notes, "it is so exceptional that when it hap...
In May 1999, seven thousand people crowded the basilica in Bologna, Italy to offer a farewell to Enzo Piccinini, a surgeon who died tragically at the age of forty-eight. Who was this doctor who had left an indelible mark on so many lives? Formed in an ...
The experience of suffering has posed a profound existential challenge to human hearts and minds throughout history. But it has become especially problematic in our time, when, with our good intentions and technological prowess, we seek to relieve the suf...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussan...
Education is transmitting the meaning of life; it is not a word, it is an experience. The problem of education, first and foremost, concerns us adults, because the opportunity that our young people may have of encountering a path for their journey depe...
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part...
In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement’s founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoki...
"Who better than Fr. Giussani has shown us the meaning of living with this Presence in our gaze? And what's better than hearing him tell us about the nature of the charism and transport us once again--as he often did--back to the center, Christ?" Juliá...
The gaze, voice, and words of Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation, ten years after his passing. An excellent documentary in memory of a great protagonist of our time, Fr. Luigi Giussani, on the tenth anniversary of his death. Photograp...
On Saturday, March 7, 2015, on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of Communion and Liberation and the 10th anniversary of Fr. Luigi Giussani's passing, the Holy Father Pope Francis encountered the Movement in an audience in St. Peter's Square. ...
For the mediaeval world, the permanence of Christ in history was a fact – Christ was really a presence. These Lauds are the result of a simplicity, as a virtue, that accepted the evidence of the wonder That Man aroused. The wonder He aroused was like a p...
What an impact of beauty and truth these have songs in us! What intense, living devotion they provoke in us. They move us to sincere and profound piety. The Philippine pietas is the only true popular pietas of the sixteenth century. St. Philip Neri was ab...
In the middle ages when they really did know how to sing, the highest musical expression was a melody made up of “a-a-a-a” that was called “Jubilus” (it is still preserved in some noble museums of the territory around Milan, but the Milanese priests no lo...
The notes from the Communion and Liberation Adults' Beginning Day in Lombardy, which was held at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago (Milan) and via video link-up, on 23 September 2023. The texts of the interventions by Francesco Cassese and Davide Prosperi. ...
The texts of Francesco Fadigati's testimony and Matteo Severgnini's synthesis of the Gioventù Studentesca Equipe, which was attended by over six hundred high school students, along with some adults and teachers. La Thuile, 8-10 September 2023
Synthesis by Fr. Francesco Ferrari to the Equipe of University Students of CL. La Thuile (Aosta), August 29–September 1, 2023. "[...] This morning I will not summarize the abundance that these days have been, I just want to elaborate on what, also togeth...
The texts of meditations by Fr. Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order, on the occasion of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL. From April 14 to 16, around 32,000 people, including 5,000 gathered in person in Rimini and t...
The booklet of the Holy Father Pope Francis' Audience with Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the centenary of Fr. Luigi Giussani's birth (October 15, 2022, St. Peter's Square). With an introductory greeting by Davide Prosperi, President of th...
The texts of the meditations of Father Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order, on the occasion of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL, held via video link from Friday April 29 to Sunday May 1, 2022.
On May 29, 2022, via video conference from Milan, the meeting of Student Youth members finishing their last year of high school with Davide Prosperi and Francesco Barberis.
Pier Luigi Bernareggi (1939-2021), Pigi, was a student of Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Communion and Liberation movement, in the 1950s, at the Berchet High School in Milan. There he encountered the experience of GS (Gioventù Studentesca, the o...
A missionary tool to make CL’s ecclesial reality, its purpose and pedagogy, history, and the associations that have been born from its charism, known in a simple but complete way.
Notes from Beginning of the Year Day for adults and university students of Communion and Liberation, which was held via video link on September 26, 2020. The booklet includes Julián Carrón's reflection and the transcript of the television interview with ...
On October 10 2020, the Student Youth (Gioventù Studentesca) Beginning Day took place via video link in Italy and abroad, with Julián Carrón and Francesco Barberis. The title of the day was: You only see what you admire. Pdf and epub
On Holy Saturday, April 11, 2020, Fr. Pigi Banna and Fr. Julián Carrón held a video link meeting from all over Italy, with members of Gioventù Studentesca. Notes from their contributions.
On February 12, 2020, in Milan, a meeting was held with Fr. Julián Carrón and Francesco Barberis, with members of Gioventù Studentesca. Students from more than eighty cities in Italy, Switzerland, Portugal and the Czech Republic also connected to the meet...
On 6 October, 2019, almost two thousand high school students from Lombardy met for the Beginning of the Year Day for Gioventù Studentesca. The title of the day was: "Who Is This Man?". The meeting with Fr. Carrón and Francesco Barberis took place in the...
About sixty years from the its first edition--curated by GS and published in Milan in 1961--this short text preserves its valuable content and method.
