Annamaria and Danilo Zanzucchi are first married couple entrusted with writing meditations for the Good Friday observance in Rome.

As announced by the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Annamaria and Danilo Zanzucchi of the Focolare Movement to write the meditations for the 2012 Way of the Cross, which will take place during Good Friday observances on April 6^th at Rome’s Colosseum. This year’s meditations will acknowledge the family’s vital role in sanctifying the world.

(Link to the meditations )

Theme for 2012:
"We will all be changed by the Victory of our Lord Jesus Christ" (cf. 1 Cor 15:51-58)

The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (PCU) gives witness to the unity that Jesus asked for when he prayed “that they all may be one” (John 17:21) and focuses on all that Christians of many traditions have in common.

Chiara Lubich's message of the 25 December 1973, addressed to the members of the Focolare Movement.

«If I should have to leave this world today and you were to ask me for a single word, one last word that sums up our Ideal, I would say – certain of being perfectly understood – ‘Be a family’.

Claritas is a new online academic journal, published by Purdue University Press in cooperation with the Focolare's Città Nuova publishing house in Rome. Scholars from around the world are looking forward to its first issue.  Callan Slipper, an Anglican theologian and one of the editors and designers of this project, answers some questions about it.