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.

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)

Seventeen organizations and movements
make a difference at a health fair
in San Diego 

 It’s a sunny morning in the Martin Luther King Jr. Park in San Diego, a green area that is the central recreational site in the neighborhood. Home mostly to disadvantaged families in which, come the end of the month, there’s little money left. Meals tend to be low cost — burgers, fries, and no fresh fruit or vegetables.

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.

Read more on the international Focolare website...

See also: Living City article