” ” ” “On learning of the death of Chiara Lubich, the president and Secretary General of the Italian Bishops Conference, card. Angelo Bagnasco and mgr. Giuseppe Betori, sent to father Oreste Basso, co-president of the Movimento dei Focolari, the following telegram: "We express our deepest condolences for the disappearance of Chiara Lubich, the founder of Movimento dei Focolari, an experience of communion that, with its presence, enriches the life of the Church in Italy and in the world. We remember with special gratitude the strength of her testimony that proposed a path of faith, based on the principle of unity, a source, in the Church and in the world, of itineraries of life inspired by fullness and joy. Grateful to the Lord for what he gave us through the person and the work of Chiara Lubich, we entrust to the memory and to the prayer of the Christian communities her encounter with the Heavenly Father".” “
