Rimini, Italy, Aug 26, 2012 / 16:23 pm
Three young Canadians all give one reason for volunteering at this year's Rimini Meeting – they encounter Jesus Christ through their involvement with the lay Catholic group Communion and Liberation.
"What I really remember of my first encounter with Communion and Liberation was that I had never met people – Catholic or non-Catholic – who were so alive, so free, and so fascinated by reality," Francesca Silano, 24, told CNA in an Aug. 23 interview.
Standing on either side of her were 25-year-old Giacomo Zucchi and 22-year-old Marc Charabati, both from Montreal and both with an identical experience of the movement that was founded in the 1950s by the late Father Luigi Giussani.
"For me it's been the way through which Christ revealed himself to me, in a sense, became present in my life," said Zucchi, a law student at the University of Montreal. Zucchi said he belongs to the movement because it's where he sees Jesus "more clearly" and where he is "helped to see him more clearly everywhere else in my life."