Last Saturday, the two leaders of the Christian Churches of the British islands, the Anglican Primate Rowan Williams and the Catholic Primate Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, paid tribute to Chiara Lubich in Westminster Cathedral, the mother church of English Catholicism, in the presence of eight hundred people, members of the Focolari movement, Anglicans, Methodists, members of the Salvation Army and the free Churches, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists. Card. Murphy-O’Connor spoke of Lubich’s last few years as "a veritable night of the soul", comparing her to Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Saint Therese of Lisieux, and thanked the British members of the Focolari movement for "their example of love and testimony that is so like that of their founder". "We thank God for all that Chiara gave to each of us", added Rowan Williams, "for a vision of true unity, not the unity of control but the unity of that deep peace that comes from the love and charity of God that takes us where there are no more foreigners to be feared but only those that God calls". "We, who have had the privilege of living in her light, can pray for her vision to be ours, for that unity to become ours", concluded the Anglican Primate.
