Following the Pope's visit to Canada, this section features a series of reflections and contributions recounting this experience and its meaning for us. This week, we share Maria Laura's witness from Edmonton.
The meeting dedicated to Fr. Giussani's centenary with testimonies from Guzman Carriquiry, Fabrice Hadjadj, Mother Maria Francesca Righi and Joseph Weiler.
"To understand we have to look where there is something truly new." John Zucchi recounts how the Pope's "penitential pilgrimage" among the indigenous communities has provoked him. Their pain, and the "encounter".
The words of Pope Francis during the meeting with indigenous peoples at the Maskwacis cemetery in Edmonton, where some of the victims of residential schools in Canada were remembered.
"Christianity was not born to found a religion; it was born as a passion for man." Fr. Giussani's speech at the 1985 Rimini Meeting, from which the title of the 2022 edition is taken: "A passion for man."
The contribution of the President of the fraternity of CL at the theological conference held June 20th at the Pontifical Lateran University, which helps to “look more deeply at what co-essentiality between charism and institution means.”
The virtual exhibition created for the Giussani's centenary of the birth of CL's is now also available in English for Windows and Mac PCs. All the information and instructions for the guided tour can be found on the website
The texts of the meditations of Father Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order, on the occasion of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL.
“Anticipation of vacation is evidence of the will to live; for just this reason it must not be ‘vacation’ from oneself. Then summer will not be an interruption or a postponement of taking life seriously.” (June 5, 1964)
