We had this special issue of "Insieme" ready to go ahead of schedule, but it took far longer to reach you than we expected.
We apologize to all of you—longtime friends and newcomers alike—and ask you to believe that the delay was purely technical: our cyclostyle machine, which we had been using, became unavailable. We hunted in vain for a replacement, then had to scrape together the money to buy an offset press. The whole process took longer than anyone anticipated.
And now here we are again, asking your forgiveness, thanking everyone who helped us through it, and celebrating together this hard-won first issue of 1980. We dedicate it to announcing the international pilgrimage of Faith and Light Communities to Lourdes for Easter 1981.
On the road again, then, toward a destination some of us know well and others have longed to reach for years. For all of us, it will be an extraordinary encounter: we will gather "together" with Communities from twenty-three countries around the world.
The Editors, 1980