{"id":330698,"date":"2017-11-09T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/555th-year-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:03:35","slug":"555th-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/555th-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"555th year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>&#8220;Hidden treasures&#8221; in Vienna<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>555th anniversary on 31<sup>st<\/sup> October 2017! What am I talking about? Let me explain: 500 years since Luther\u2019s Reformation, 50 years since I was born and 5 years since I have moved to Austria.<\/p>\n<p>When I realised this coincidence, I wondered how to celebrate the big round anniversary uniting my personal history with the ecumenical one.<\/p>\n<p>I am a Swiss citizen; my mother is reformed and my father Catholic. My siblings and I were baptised into the Reformed Church, but after we went our separate ways. As a child I joined the Catholic Church, hence my strong passion for the unity of Churches. I now live in a Focolare community in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, in a meeting of consecrated people in the Ecumenical Centre in Ottmaring, attended by the Lutheran Bishop Emeritus Herwig Sturm, I presented a performance on Luther, based on images, spoken word and dance (I am a ballet dancer by profession).\u00a0It occurred to me, why not celebrate my birthday by offering the same performance to the public?<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_slider et_pb_slider_fullwidth_off et_pb_gallery_post_type\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PA296669.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PA296733.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PA296670_bis.jpg);\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On 29<sup>th<\/sup> October, more than 60 people gathered in Am Spiegeln, in the Meeting Centre of the Focolare Movement in Vienna, for my \u2018ecumenical birthday show\u2019. Instead of bringing birthday gifts, I asked my guests to offer a contribution towards translations of the meeting of Friends of the ecumenical network <em>Together for Europe<\/em> which was to take place in the Meeting Centre a few days after my birthday.<\/p>\n<p>What a joyful occasion it has been to bring the money raised through the show to the International Steering Committee of Together for Europe!<\/p>\n<p><em>Roswitha Oberfeld, Vienna (Austria)<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hidden treasures&#8221; in Vienna 555th anniversary on 31st October 2017! What am I talking about? Let me explain: 500 years since Luther\u2019s Reformation, 50 years since I was born and 5 years since I have moved to Austria. 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