Three Years Later…
February 21, 2008
On February 22, 2008 it will have been three years since the death of Fr. Luigi Guissani.
Don Guiss, as he was affectionately called, was the founder of the Catholic Lay Movement, Communion and Liberation. He founded it in the 1950s when he noticed the overall lack of humanity in the italian youth he was teaching.
Ordained as a priest when he was twenty three, he dedicated his life to educating others on faith and instructing his followers on how to live life fully.
Communion and Liberation is a Catholic Lay movement that has spread across over eighty countries, and has gained the support of Pope John Paul the II, and the Pope Benedict the XVI.
Communion and Liberation consists of people meeting every week, called the School of Community, to read Guissani’s works and discuss how it reflects the the experiences of their own life. The main focus it encourage one to think about their own life and how to discover what corresponds to their hearts.
At Guissani’s funeral in 2005, the then Cardinal Ratzsinger gave the passionate homily detailing the greatness of his life. Pope Benedict has Memores Domini, members of the movement who have dedicated their life to it, living with him and participates in School of Community with them every week.
There will a Commerative Mass, led by Cardinal Sean O’Malley on February 29, 2008 at St. Mary’s Church in Waltham, Massachusetts.
