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’.

From the Focolare Movement, in the words of the president, Maria Voce.

“Best wishes to all who live that the world might be a true family!

May the life of the Word be the Bethlehem Star that proclaims and invites us to encounter Jesus among us, in a Christmas that lasts forever.”

~ Maria Voce (Emmaus)

Reflection by Chiara Lubich

"The true countenance of God to believe in is that of all times, but each era knows how to better explain it, to better penetrate it. To go straight to the truth, inarguable because infallible, it is best to see how Paul VI shows the countenance of God in his Profession of Faith, in his Creed: 'We believe in one God..."

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Reflection by Chiara Lubich

"We often make resolutions. We are not always successful at keeping them. But in some rare cases you realize it is not you making them. It is Another who is calling you sweetly, but decisively, from within."

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