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Luca Fiammenghi / Fraternità di CL

The Voice of a History

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Pippo Molino, musician and composer, describes in a recent book the place of singing in the movement: “It is born in a living community. It is one with the experience we have. And a choir is pure charity.” From the January issue of Tracce.

"Morning Sun" by Edward Hopper

A True Realist

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This month’s “Book of the Month” is The End of the Affair, published in 1951 by the twentieth-century English novelist Graham Greene.

Education and the Road to Destiny

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The Tampa Bay Community hosted a panel to discuss the content of The Risk of Education and saw firsthand the grace of the charism given by the Holy Spirit to Fr. Giussani

A Unique Lens

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The friends that organized the Leonard Cohen exhibit at the 2024 New York Encounter share their judgment on the work.

Living the Liturgy

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A book including Fr. Giussani’s meditations on the liturgy is now available in English through Slant Books

A Friendship Full of Wonder

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Friends in Houston, TX host a cultural event discussing the role of wonder in the dynamics of knowing.

The Net

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A new publication by Human Adventure Books addresses the question: “How can you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?”

Spirto Gentil Society

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Changed by the friendship with a couple that moved away, Bill and his wife decide to open their home with the hope of meeting and embracing more of these friends.

This Little Flame

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“These days of knowing the Movement have educated me to a wovenness with the lives of others that is new for me.”

Photo by: Paolo Bendandi // Unsplash

God Was Waiting For Me

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Invited to reconsider the value of Charitable Work, Laura begins a journey and experiences God’s caress.

An Inextinguishable Source of Unity

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After seeing his friends, Massimo is left “with a bigger desire, and a simple prayer to learn to recognize Him wherever I am, whomever I’m with.”

<em>Healing of a Blind Man </em> by Eustache Le Sueur

In Him I See Who I Am

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Fr. Brian reflects on how the charism of CL helps him to be a priest, even within the discovery of his own limits.

Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Giotto

He Dwells Among Us

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An invitation to read January’s Book of the Month, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI.