- Mattarella in Mariapolis for the celebrations in honor of Chiara Lubich
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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 25 January 2020 The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella was the guest of honor at the Mariapolis Center in Cadine (Trento) for the centenary celebrations of the birth of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement.The Head of State Mattarella has highlighted how unity and fraternity do not admit prejudice . The concept of unity represented by the life and teachings of the founder of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich, "does not end with the Church". Unity, Mattarella said "translates into fraternity towards all the others, starting with those closest to us, which is sometimes the most difficult. And without prejudices or barriers because fraternity is a universal value that does not allow borders or distinctions. Chiara Lubich considered fraternity as a political category, "recalled the President of the Republic. For the Head of State Mattarella: "Fraternity is also a political element, an engine of well-being".
'Our democracies need brotherhood'
During the commemoration of Chiara Lubich, the Head of State then highlighted how: "Our democracies need a sense of fraternity, without fraternity we risk being exposed to the domain of interests only, we risk not having the strength to overcome inequalities that are growing, to prevent the law of the fittest and there would be only individualism ".
Mattarella cited the words of Chiara Lubich in international fora, on the meaning of fraternity "after the abyss of war, the holocaust, nationalism transformed into hatred". The president quoted the words pronounced by Chiara Lubich during a meeting in Stuttgart in 2004: "The expression of fraternity in politics is to love the homeland, that of others as one's own. The greatest dignity for humanity would in fact be that of feeling like a single people, enriched by the diversity of each one and for this reason, keeper, in unity, of the different identities ".
'Dialogue between religions decisive for peace, we must drain the hate garrisons'
"Dialogue between religions is very evident in this historical season, it is decisive for peace. We must drain the hateful devices that exploit and distort religious messages, expressing in contrast with them, the will to overcome, annihilate and die ".
'You can be strong while being open to others'
"You can be very strong despite being meek and open to the reasons of others. Indeed, as Chiara Lubich's life shows, only in this way is she really strong," said the President of the Republic.
The mayor of Trento , Alessandro Andreatta , during his speech at the Centro Mariapoli in Cadine, argued that: "Chiara Lubich was able to look beyond the borders and rubble of the war. It was no coincidence that she developed her vocation in Trento, a city era torn by conflict but bridge and link between the Mediterranean and Europe. A girl who almost 80 years ago put herself at the service of the poor and continues to invite us to welcome, to engage with others and for others ".
Metropolitan Archbishop of Trento , Lauro Tisi , during the celebrations dedicated to Chiara Libich, underlined how: "The most impressed element of this woman is the reading of the abandoned Christ. In which anti narcissism is given: she reinterprets the death of Christ as an excess of love that becomes non-violence, even protection of the enemy, liberation of the other with respect to crediting oneself. One thing of an actuality impressed because we note today a narration of oneself that is the origin of a a lot of problems. If we want to help Europe we have to start from the rediscovery of the other ".