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Cristiana Capotondi: “The pain helped me to reflect”

A strong, fearless, simple and extraordinary woman, capable of giving love during World War II, in her Trento, and of giving up her family for a greater good. His name is Chiara Lubich and it is also the title of the tv film by Giacomo Campiotti (Red bracelets) which will air on January 3 in prime time on Rai 1. To interpret the woman who gave her life to God, without taking vows, and created the Focolare Movement is Cristiana Capotondi.

Campiotti leads us in 1943, under the bombs, when Chiara, at 23, was teaching children and had the dream of graduating in philosophy.

That dream changes shape and turns into a much greater desire: to help others and to follow the words of the Gospel. The verse he made his own is: May all be one. In this pandemic period it rings powerful.

Together with five young girls she helps the most needy and their first “focolare” will be born from their friendship”, The initial nucleus of his community which today numbers two million people in 80 countries spread over five continents. Chiara Lubich was initially opposed by the church, but then it was understood and will contribute to the dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. It also became the first non-Muslim white woman to speak in the Harlem mosque in New York.

«I have many things left of Chiara Lubich in my heart», Cristiana Capotondi confesses to us via Zoom,« her sentence “There is no thorn without a rose”, which overturns the proverb “There is no rose without thorns”, that is, even in the most painful experience you can see a positive sign , it is a very useful vademecum that I carry with me every day ».

At a time like this, his message rings out loud. “We are experiencing social and emotional distress very similar to that of war», Says Cristiana,« “Being all together” to solve the problem we have and to revive society after the health emergency it is an encouragement that politicians should take».

The actress, in a dramatic year that is about to end, has found positive stimuli. “Perhaps the pain has allowed us to talk about important topics and to make profound reflections»He affirms, and we must not be ashamed of this».

«I shared a lot», keep it going, “And for an introvert like me it’s a good result: I came out enriched. For the first time I felt the desire for sociability, I realized that men, despite having conquered the Moon and created a mode of communication without physical presence, need to be investigated. We still have to understand who we are ».

And of 2021 he tells us: “I’ve never wanted a new year so badly. The start won’t be better than 2020, but we have more tools to tackle it. 2021 will be intimist, an astrologer friend told me, smiles, “I don’t mind inner battles at all, I listen to them willingly.”

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