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"Benedict XVI focused his message for this year's World Day of Peace on protecting creation. We echo his words with a letter taken from a letter exchange on this topic between Chiara Lubich and Nikkyo Niwano, founder of the Buddhist Movement Rissho Kosei-kai." Rocca di Papa, March 8, 1990 Dear Mr. Niwano,First of all, I hope this letter finds you in the best of health. Cordial greetings also to the members of your family whom I remember with great esteem and who are present in my prayers.I hope that you have received good news from your grand-daughter, Mitsuyo, who is the guest of one of our families in Paris.Since I received your letter in October, we have been very busy following the great changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe, which have probably had noteworthy repercussions also beyond the boundaries of our continent. First of all, I hope this letter finds you in the best of health. Cordial greetings also to the members of your family whom I remember with

Tokyo, November 24, 1985 Every year the Day for Peace is celebrated on 1 January. We're publishing some notes that Chiara prepared on this topic in answering two questions asked by the young people of the Buddhist Movement Rissho Kosei-kai. {rokbox title=|Chiara to the 300 young Buddhist leaders of the Rissho Kosei-kai :: 24/11/1985| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19851124-scritto-p.jpg|}images/scritti/19851124-scritto_en.pdf{/rokbox} Peace is an effect of unity.When there is unity between God and the human person, we have inner peace. When there is unity among brothers and sisters, there is peace among brothers and sisters. When there is unity among peoples, there is peace in the world. The text is a second draft with respect to the original 1) What, in your opinion, is the meaning of the word "peace"? Peace is an effect of unity.When there is unity between God and the human person, we have inner peace. When there is unity among brothers and sisters, there is peace among brothers and sisters. When there is unity among peoples, there is peace in the world.

From Chiara’s Diary {rokbox title=|Dal diario di Chiara :: 22/11/1980| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19801122-diario-p.gif|}downloads/chi_19801123_en.pdf{/rokbox} 22 November 1980 It’s more than a month before Christmas and the city streets of Zurich are already covered in lights. Bahnhofstrasse and parallel streets. A never-ending row of shops, a sophisticated but exorbitant richness.We are in what is perhaps the richest country of the world.To the left of our car a row of shop windows catches our attention. Through the window it is snowing gently: an optical illusion. Boys and girls on sledges pulled by reindeer and Disney animals. Still more sledges and Father Christmas and little deer, piglets, hares, frogs, puppets and red dwarfs. Everything is moving gracefully. Oh! There are the angels… But no! They are fairies, recently invented to adorn the snow-white scene.A child with his parents stands on tiptoe and watches, fascinated.But in my heart is disbelief and then, almost rebellion: this rich world has trapped Christmas and all that goes with it, and has evicted Jesus!It loves the poetry, the atmosphere, the friendship

Rome, Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 1960 downloads/mp3/chi_19761230_en.mp3 {rokbox title=|Scritto di Chiara :: 24/04/1960| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19600424-scritto-p.gif|}images/scritti/19600424-scritto_en.pdf{/rokbox} I love you I love younot because I have learned to tell you so;not because my heartsuggests these words,not even because faith has made me believethat you are love;and not even because you died for me.I love youbecause you have entered into my lifemore than the air in my lungs,more than the blood in my veins. You have come and enteredwhere no one could enter;when no one could help me,each time no one could console me.Every day I have spoken with you.At every moment I have looked at youand in your countenanceI have found the answer;in your words the explanation;in your love the solution.I love youbecause for many yearsyou have lived with meand I have lived with you.I drank from your law,and did not know it.I was nourished with it,became strong in itI found new courage,but I was unaware of itlike a child who drinks its mother's milkand still does not knowhow to call

Taken from Chiara’s diary {rokbox title=|from Chiara’s diary :: 13/12/68| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19681213-diario-p.gif|}images/scritti/19681213-diario_en.pdf{/rokbox} 12 / 13 /1968A love that continuesWhen friends or relatives leave for the hereafter, we say they have passed away, we think they are gone.But it is not true. If we think like this, where is our faith in the communion of saints? ... ... No one who enters into God is lost: because if anything remains in a brother or sister for whom “life is changed not taken away,” it is charity.Yes, because everything passes. Even faith and hope pass away with the rest of the world as we know it. Only charity remains (see 1 Cor 13:8).Now, what remains is the love that our brother or sister had for us, if it was a true love, rooted in God. And God is not so miserly with us that he takes away what he has given us in them.But now he gives it to us in another way. Our departed brother or sister continues to love us in