You are invited to: Expo 2013: Building a renewed humanity!

April 27-28, 2013 @ Sheraton O'Hare Airport Hotel, Chicago

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Join us in creating a dynamic event that will serve as an example of unity, putting the person at the center of human endeavor, and a foundation for future collaboration.

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The 12,000 young people of a hundred countries who will be present at the appointment in Budapest (Aug 31 to Sept 9), represent tens of thousands of their contemporaries in the world who share the ideal of fraternity.

The Genfest was born from a prophetic intuition of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The Genfest is a meeting of young people who want to show the world that universal brotherhood, a united world, is an Ideal worth living for.

 "Let's bridge" is the title of the 10th edition of the Genfest, the "celebration" of the youth. 

The Wound and The Blessing

The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It originates in the illusion that the market, through the actions of an “invisible hand” operating in impersonal market relationships, can present us a good common life exempt from the possibility of being wounded by the other. Luigino Bruni offers an authoritative and innovative look at the cultural and anthropological premises underlying contemporary market economies and their promises. He suggests that the market has betrayed its promises and points out the need for balancing the increasing tendency toward isolation with the human need for relationships. Bruni proposes gratuitousness – free and open reciprocity, quite different from altruism – as a means of maximizing the benefits of the market (and the equality and freedom that market contracts propose) without losing the joy that comes from putting the relationship with the others in the market as the primary good.

Read more at New City Press ...

Focolare's annual gathering offers youth and adults an experience of how life is transformed when love and unity are at its core. Here are some of the upcoming Mariapolises.

To find out more see the list below.