The Prophecy Makes History: 20 Years of Economy of Communion

This international EoC assembly will take place on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Economy of Communion, launched by Chiara Lubich in Brazil, in May 1991.
The event will be a celebration and a reflection, a chance to deepen and understand the steps necessary for future development from 2011 to 2031:to continue to believe in an economy of communion, to live it, to make it grow beyond all boundaries, to plant trees that we cultivate today and which will bear fruit tomorrow.

The beatification of Pope John Paul II is by now imminent and together with the whole Church we feel enveloped by an immense joy and profound gratitude. Joy and gratitude for the gift She is giving to us in recognizing the holiness of this great Pope, expressed in his well-spent and consumed life, up to the last moment, for God and for us human beings.

The extraordinary richness of his teachings continues to amaze, as well as his witness of love which has aroused gratitude worldwide both in Christians and faithful of other religions, and in people with no religious faith.

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Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti offer the lively young Dominicans of the Focolare Movement “something more”. They invite them to “do great things” and to “share with everyone the joy of living “with Jesus” and “for Jesus.”

It was a special Saturday for the large Focolare family in the Dominican Republic. Seven-hundred people met in the Church’s Casa San Paolo, a small country with a dozen provinces, two-hundred by three-hundred kilometers, but rich in local beauty and “campanalism” with both its positive and negative implications.