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ROME 25 Sep. 10 / 10:41 a.m. (ACI)
The Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Archbishop Angelo Amato, chaired this morning's Mass for the beatification of the young Italian Chiara "Luce" Badano who died 18 years and with his testimony of deep love and charity through the pain of his illness "invites us to rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm of the faith."
According to the L'Osservatore Romano, said so this morning Archbishop told thousands of faithful gathered in the Roman Sanctuary of Divine Love: "Blessed Chiara Badano is a missionary of Jesus, an apostle of the Gospel as good news for a world rich in prosperity, but often sick with sadness and unhappiness" he said.
By elevating the altars to the young, the first member of the Focolare movement recorded in the book of the blessed, who lived between 1971 and 1990, the Vatican prelate invited all "to rediscover the enthusiasm of faith to all, young people especially, but also adults, the men, the priests. "
"Everyone has been given enough grace to be holy. Respond with joy to this invitation of holiness and thank Benedict XVI for the gift of the beatification of our Chiara Luce, "as he called the founder of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich.
" This, "he went on a concrete sign of the confidence and esteem Pope has for the youth, who see the young face of the holy Church. "
After highlighting the love that Chiara Badano was the spirituality of the Focolare, the Archbishop highlighted the courageous and confident girl's testimony before the bone cancer that eventually led her back to the Father's House. "Affected to 16 years for osteosarcoma, accept the cross in pain, but with quiet strength:" I have no legs and I liked as cycling, but the Lord has given me wings. " Suffered, but the soul singing. Morphine rejected because, "I removed lucidity and I can offer Jesus my pain '."
In the final months of 1989, Chiara Lubich gives it its new name "Luce" (light) is "a name was a very wise because Chiara a burst of divine light, which surprised everyone, young and adults "with works of charity like feeding the elderly, or the lady who never went to church and to learn of his death was given one, or delivery of all his money to a volunteer who would dig 30 wells in Benin who was said of Jesus: "I do not serve, I I have everything. "
One of his last gifts, Archbishop Amato explained, was that of his corneas to two young men who now see through it." This girl, fragile appearance, was actually a woman "who talked about her "wedding dress" for her funeral: "I do not cry because I'm happy," he said.
A press release of the Focolare Movement in Uruguay, this beatification involving some 10 000 young people from around the world. Also includes the testimony of some members of this movement, like Ramon, of Brazil, who says that "Chiara showed me that it's worth giving your life for something big, universal brotherhood."
Meanwhile, Paolo, an Italian, said that "society leads us to distance ourselves from all that is his sufferings, Chiara Luce teaches us to embrace the difficulties and transform them into love of neighbor", while Tatenda South Africa said that "what attracts her is the triumph of life and joy. He left us a path to follow. "
The note also indicates that this day is made a party for young people in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall where there will be drama, music and testimonies.
26 is held Sunday at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, a Thanksgiving Mass at which Pope Benedict XVI will link with a message from the Plaza de San Pedro.
The party in the Church to remind the new Blessed, Chiara "Luce" Badano, has been scheduled for Oct. 29.
Source:
http://www.aciprensa.com/noticia.php?n=31185
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