"I just finished watching the recording of Hans Van Mourik Broekman's talk, and I found it very inspiring. I have so many notes! I wish every school would share its testimony with their teachers as an encouragement." Brian, who just met us, surprised me thus a few days ago after watching the recording of the first meeting we organized last October in Dublin to celebrate the centenary of Fr. Giussani's birth. Or Regina, a friend of Elisa, who had invited her for the first time, who confides that those two meetings gave her the strength to go on with her work that had become extremely difficult.

What happened? And how did it come about? At the end of 2021, I changed jobs and started working in an American multinational company with its European headquarters in Dublin, working in a global team, composed of people scattered across America, Israel and of course Dublin. It was like being catapulted into the world, and the initial fatigue was immediately accompanied by a strong and unexpected "yearning” for those people of (almost) every race and country who participated in the video work calls so that they could meet Christ, the One who filled my life with meaning and gusto. It was a yearning that was combined with an immense gratitude for Fr. Giussani and the movement that had been their channel for meeting Him. So I proposed the gesture to the community and a dozen friends made it possible to organize two meetings entitled "A life lived to the full" one in early October and one in mid-November in the chapel of the University where Chiara, a dear friend of the movement, teaches.

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