Our Principles are the synthetic and incisive expressions,
drawn from daily experience,
matured since the early months at Casamaina (AQ),
where p. Matteo received his first young people
in February of 1991
and they served right away to give solidity
and prominence to the values,
attitudes, and behaviors that they were discovering and maturing.
The Principles were born on the basis
of concrete situations that occurred
in the first few months of the Community:
not wasting wood, the hardness of some towards newcomers, instability, superficiality in one’s responsibilities ......
So the Principles were formulated
as a guidance
to the positive solution
of such real daily problems.