It is with joy that we welcome today the testimony of Cristina Calvo, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through her journey with the Laudato Si’ Center, we discover how caring for our common home becomes a path of living faith and shared hope.
My experience in San Damiano was deeply meaningful because it is part of my mission as a focolarina: to build bridges of dialogue and collaborate with other movements and institutions, such as ASSISI Terra Laudato Si’.
Welcoming and accompanying the many visitors who participated in the initiatives during this jubilee year was an immense gift. I was able to see how the unity of charisms—Franciscan, Clarian, Laudatist, and Focolarino—is a living and concrete witness: a sister Church, committed to universal fraternity and care for creation.
Sharing moments with the novices and friars of San Damiano was an immersion in Franciscan and Clarean mysticism, an experience that makes St. Francis and St. Clare present as witnesses of a Gospel lived to the end, even 800 years later. Every encounter, every word shared, and every gesture of welcome reminded me how precious it is to live spirituality through relationship, concrete commitment, and mutual care.
This experience confirmed to me that fraternity, care for the Earth, and unity among charisms are not just ideals, but concrete practices that transform lives and communities.
Every step counts: walk with us toward our Common Home.
