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January 22 marks the anniversary of the birth of Chiara Lubich, Founder of the Focolare Movement. Today we share a short excerpt from a speech she delivered in Innsbruck (Austria) on November 9, 2001, during the \u201cA Thousand Cities for Europe\u201d Congress, dedicated to the theme of universal brotherhood.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Universal brotherhood, even apart from Christianity, has not been absent from the minds of great and exceptional persons. Mahatma Gandhi said: \u201cThe Golden Rule is to be friends of the world and to consider as \u2018one\u2019 the whole human family. Whoever distinguishes between the faithful of his own religion and those of another misinforms the members of his own and opens the way to the rejection of religion and its values.\u201d [1]<\/a>\u00a0(\u2026)<\/p>\n

However, the One who brought universal brotherhood on earth, as an essential gift to humanity, was Jesus, who prayed for unity before he died: \u201cFather, that they may all be one\u201d (Jn 17:21). In revealing to us that God is our Father and consequently that we are all brothers and sisters, he introduced the idea of humanity as one family, the idea of the \u201chuman family\u201d made possible by universal brotherhood in action.<\/p>\n

Consequently, he destroyed the walls that separate those who are \u201cthe same\u201d from those who are \u201cdifferent,\u201d friends from enemies, walls that isolate one city from another. And he loosened the bonds that imprison people in so many ways, from the thousands of forms of suppression and slavery, from every unjust relationship. In this way he brought about an authentic existential, cultural and political revolution.<\/p>\n

Thus the idea of fraternity began to make way in history. We could trace back its presence in the evolution of thought throughout the centuries, finding it at the basis of many fundamental political ideas, at times clearly, at times more veiled. This fraternity was often lived, although in a limited manner, each time, for example, a people joined together to fight for their freedom, or when social groups struggled to defend the weak, or whenever people of different convictions rose above mistrust in order to affirm a particular human right.<\/p>\n

Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIn buona compagnia\u201d, a cura di Claudio Mantovano, Roma, 2001, p. 11.<\/p>\n

Photo \u00a9 Horacio Conde-CSC Audiovisivi<\/p>\n

News source: https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-humanity-as-one-family\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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