“We came to know love”

The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation
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Discovering a Friend in Enzo Piccinni

John tells the story of how he encountered the life of Enzo Piccinni, first through reading about him in Dearest Friend, and then on pilgrimage to his tomb.

Though Enzo died many years before I was born, I have been given the exciting and provoking experience of having met and continuing to meet him through the impact he had on the lives of others through stories told of a uniquely mysterious man. At the New ...

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Hope Reborn: Sharing the Hope of Comunità Cenacolo

Members from the Miami community participate in a screening of Hope Reborn, a film that shares the experience of prayer, work, and love within Comunità Cenacolo

Several months ago, the CL Community in Miami received a special invitation from our friends from Comunità Cenacolo to attend the US premiere of the movie Hope Reborn. Hope Reborn is a full-length, faith-based film about Comunità Cenacolo, a spiritua...

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The Power of Grace

A man like many, unworthy and full of limits, yet in him God’s work is made manifest. Davide Prosperi's commentary on Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, one of the recommended books to read over the summer

“The glory of God is man fully alive” (St. Irenaeus). But which man? Even the miserable one, the lost one, the unworthy one? I reread The Power and the Glory, perhaps Graham Greene's greatest novel, recommended as one of the books to read over the summ...

Nagasaki photographed on September. 14, 1945, just over a month after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb (© AP Photo/LaPresse)
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Nagasaki. Life after the bomb

The hematologist Masao Tomonaga, a survivor of the Nagasaki explosion, has dedicated his life to studying and treating the effects of nuclear radiation. “They are inhuman weapons. Peace depends on what is in our thoughts”

The bomb released in the sky over Hiroshima took only thirty-four seconds to hit the ground and transform the city into a mute desert. After the blinding light, a wave of 108-million-degree heat vaporized humans, plants, and animals. Then the shock wave r...

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A Beauty Worth Sharing

Tatiana shares the experience of the CL Summer Vacation in with other members of the Puerto Rico community.

This has been a very special year for our community in Puerto Rico. One of the most beautiful graces we received was having our vacation as a community for the first time in many years. This beauty is worth sharing with others. We started the vacation...