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Teenagers and young adults are invited to join in an immersion of the life, light, and love of Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, an Italian teenager who lived a brief but intense life full of charity and hope, through a variety of song, dance, and audio visuals hosted by the Youth for a United World of the Midwest.

April 9, 2011, 5:30pm CST (Sunday Mass celebrated at 4pm)North Riverside Village Hall (2401 S Des Plaines Ave, North Riverside IL - MAP)Pizza & Fellowship @ 7pm

Free Online Registration now open or contact y4uw.midwest@focolare.us

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Focolare Movement Celebrates 1st Beatified Member She is the first member of the Catholic lay Focolare Movement to be raised to the altars. Cardinal Bertone celebrated a thanksgiving Mass in her honor on ...

Read more about Blessed Chiara Luce of the Focolare Movement in articles and videos published in newspapers and magazines from around the world...

 

The Focolare Movement  Communications Office FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — September 20, 2010

Gary Brandl - garybrandl@newcitypress.comClare Zanzucchi - livingcity.ed@livingcitymagazine.com

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Video: Chiara Luce Badano Presented in Dialogue

Presented at the Midwest Mariapolis 2010

 

Links: Chiara Luce Badano

Catholic New World of the Archdiocese of Chicago YouTube: Chiara Luce's beatification www.focolare.org Clear Light to Follow: Living City Magazine Ordinary, Extraordinary Life: Living City Magazine

Chiara Luce Badano (1971-1990) - beatified Saturday, Sept. 25th, 2010 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome, Italy.

 

Bishop Maritano, promoter of the cause, said Chiara Luce is "an incredible witness of faith and strength for the youth of today". And Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, said in 2000: "How much light in her words, in her letters in her life. She is a model and witness both for youth and for adults".

 

 

Focolare Movement                                                                                                             Press Release 3/19/2010

Information Service

CHIARA LUCE BADANO

(1971-1990)WILL  BE  BEATIFIED on Saturday, September 25, 2010at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome, Italy

Bishop Maritano, promoter of the cause, said she is:

“An incredible witness of faith and strength for the youth of today.”

And Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, said in 2000:

“How much light in her words, in her letters, in her life!

She is a model and witness both for youth and adults.”

Chiara Luce Badano had a generous and lively personality. She was born in 1971 in Sassello, Italy, an only child conceived after 11 years of marriage.  At age 9 she heard about the Focolare’s ideal of unity from some of her friends and discovered a new way of living and thinking which satisfied her thirst for God.Click here for complete article in Living City Magazine.