WRITINGS Collection
Collection of texts written by Chiara Lubich
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From Chiara’s diary {rokbox title=|From Chiara’s diary :: 25 March 1967| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19670325-diario-p.gif|}downloads/chi_19670325_en.pdf{/rokbox} 25 March 1967 Two things struck me during Holy Week: Jesus’ fear – “He began to feel fear” (Mk 14:33) – and his plea to the Father to be freed of the enormous burden that was overwhelming him. How many times we too “feel fear”… for thousands of reasons. Let us drown our drops of fear in his great fear! And how many times we plead with God, and then, while we voice our request, we re-explain ourselves, adhering to his will if it turns out to be different from ours. Perhaps our pleas are not useless… perhaps they have a “reason.” Also Jesus pleaded, thus showing himself to be close to us, truly man! Transcription
From Chiara’s Diary I have preached around the world that God is Love and now because of the events that have been taking place, one after the other, I have the impression that God has forsaken me. I wrote this yesterday as well, but it is totally different. In any case, this evening I went into church to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and I found written there: “Bonum certamen fidei” [“Fight the good fight of faith”] This then is what awaits me in the coming days: the great struggle for faith, to believe in Love. In fact, what I feel in my soul is completely different from what I felt before: whereas before everything spoke to me of the love of God, now these events, these tremendous trials make it disappear. And not to be loved by God makes me feel that I am a nothing, a zero that brings tears to my eyes. But with the grace of Our Lady, I will fight to have faith, to have
October 25, 1977 Città Nuova {rokbox title=|Dialogo aperto :: di Chiara Lubich - "Città Nuova, 25/10/1977| size=|561 350| thumb=|images/scritti/19771025_CN-p.gif|}downloads/chi_19771025_it.pdf{/rokbox} CHIARA ANSWERS “We young people feel a strong need to play a leading role in life. How can we reconcile this with Jesus’ invitation to renounce ourselves and therefore, to “annul ourselves,” in order to follow him and to have Eternal Life?”"Maria - Roma Jesus did not come on earth solely to prepare us for Eternal Life. Certainly, this was his main mission. He was also concerned with the earthly life of men and women. His public life was filled with so many physical miracles! He taught us to ask the Father for our daily bread, to trust him for what we will wear and what we will eat. He promised the hundredfold in this life to those who put him in the first place in their heart, putting aside all other affections…. However, what he wants is that already here on earth we live like when we will be in heaven.
From Chiara’s Diary {rokbox title=|Dal diario di Chiara :: 17/01/1972| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19720117-diario-p.gif|}downloads/chi_19720117_en.pdf{/rokbox} 17.1.72 The essential is missingWe are in Lent.Why is it so difficult to talk about penance in our modern times?Good people, in certain areas, especially country people, and above all, women, still accept the parish priest's invitation to penance. And do it. We hear of pilgrimages entailing bodily sufferings which throngs of Christians make to Fatima and to Lourdes, and they are not usually fanatical people.The fact is that, despite the survival of these events, for Christians today in general the word penance has rather fallen into disuse.And perhaps this is right. Perhaps it is fortunate because it warns us that to add a penance to the Christian life as it is being lived (or rather as it is not being lived), is like cultivating a flower in a pot destined for the balcony of a house that is not yet built.We can feel that the greater part, the essential, is missing, and that, therefore, the lesser part, the
April 1999 Commetary on the Word of Life: I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture (Jn 10:9). Those who were listening to Jesus were familiar with the image of the gateway, from the dream of Jacob (“This is the gateway to heaven,” Gen 28:17) to God’s beloved Jerusalem with its ancient portals. (See Psalm 24:7) Psalm 118:20 reads: “This gate is the Lord’s; the just shall enter it.” Jesus makes it his own, and fills it with new meaning. He is the gate to salvation, who leads us to pastures where divine goods are freely given. He is the one and only mediator and through him men and women can go to the Father. “He is the door to the Father,” says Ignatius of Antioch, “through whom have entered Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the prophets, the apostles and the Church.” (Phila IX, 1). I am the gate... Yes, the image of the gate surely touched the hearts of
From Chiara’s Diary Chiara was born on the 22nd of January. On that very date, in 2000, she received honorary Roman citizenship. That morning she had written in her diary: Today 80 years old at 6:30 AM.Today Roman citizenship.Infinite thanks, Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit. She received the following letter from Pope John Paul II: {rokbox title=|Letter from Pope John Paul II :: From the Vatican, January 13, 2000| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/20000113_gp2-p.jpg|}downloads/gp2_20000113.pdf{/rokbox} To MissChiara LubichFoundress and President of the Focolare MovementI was very happy to learn that on January 22, on the occasion of your 80th birthday, the Municipal Administration of Rome intends to solemnly confer you with honorary citizenship... On this happy occasion, I, too, wish to extend my very best wishes, while I join with you in rendering thanks to God for the inestimable gift of life.After having called you through Baptism to become his beloved daughter, he wished to unite you more intimately to Christ poor, chaste, and obedient, through a total consecration to his love, in order to be,
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