WRITINGS Collection
Collection of texts written by Chiara Lubich
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A letter from June 1944 My little sister in the immense Love of God! Listen, I beg you, listen to the voice of this little heart!You have been blinded with me by the luminous blaze of an Ideal that is greater than all and sums up all: the infinite Love of God! O, my little sister! He is the one, He is my God, your God, who has bound us together with a bond stronger than death, because it will never decay, one like the spirit, immense, infinite, delicate, strong, immortal like the Love of God! It is Love that makes us sisters! It is Love that has called us to Love! It is Love that has spoken in the depths of our hearts and has told us: “Look around you. Everything in the world passes away. Every day has its evening, and evening is quickly here. Every life has its sunset, and the sunset of your life is quickly here! And yet, don’t despair. Yes, everything does pass, because nothing
From Chiara’s Diary 12/10 /1968 At times, a certain preoccupation comes to the soul. How do I appear to God? What and how much dust covers my soul? Even though it seemed to me that I had not committed any deliberate sins, neither mortal nor venial, how ugly I must be? And to say the truth, we wouldn’t know how to give a judgment on this.It seems to me that in this case, the only thing to do is to immediately stop looking at ourselves, to “forget ourselves” in order to look only at God, at His will, at Jesus in our neighbors. To be constantly “outside of ourselves.” To seek not our own sanctity, but the Saint. Herein lies charity and authentic holiness.
Chiara’s diary {rokbox title=|Chiara’s diary :: 9/4/68| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19680409-diario-p.gif|}downloads/chi_19680409_en.pdf{/rokbox} 9 / 4 /1968At times we are filled with nostalgia for heaven. At times we feel the weight of life here on earth and of the waiting.But then Someone immediately calls us from within to recollect ourselves and be alone with the Eternal One; He calls us to be consoled and to be resigned to continuing like this for as long as He wants... ... In these moments you feel like a child who is picked up and hugged in his mother’s arms. Nothing is now missing. And while being refreshed you recover strength and feel that no, it is not good to go straight to the eternal enjoyment of what God’s goodness has prepared for us, and besides that would not be justice, because eternal happiness must be merited. So you make decisions to live the Christian life well, true resolutions of daily heroism, in order to reach perfection during all the days that are left of your life. It is
An excerpt from Chiara’s Diary {rokbox title=|An excerpt from Chiara’s Diary :: 3/3/67| size=|561 350| thumb=|images/scritti/19670303-diario-p.gif|}images/scritti/19670303-diario.jpg{/rokbox} 3 / 3 /1967I am discovering that “hope” is a great virtue. Why are we not fully happy at times? Why do sufferings, tears and sorrows blind us? It’s because we are lacking the “hope” that, thinking about it... ...and glancing over the Gospel, seems to be its style – as Paul VI would say – in trustful (hopeful) anticipation of the divine promises of which the Gospel is the treasurer.In order to renew our Christian life, to give it that limpid smile of the children of the Gospel, we now need this virtue, lived with perseverance. The God of hope! Yes, it’s like this, may the true and one God “fill you with all joy and peace” (Rm 15:13): the two things that are missing in the world, the gift that the focolarino must bring to it. (click on the image to enlarge it)
The All-Beautiful {rokbox title=|Mary :: Theotokos, Loppiano | size=|561 350| thumb=|images/foto/madonna-india-p.jpg|}images/foto/madonna-india.jpg{/rokbox} Guardando la natura sembra che Gesù dia il suo comandamento nuovo anche ad essa.When we look at nature, it seems that Jesus gives it his new commandment too.I observed two plants and I thought about pollination. Before this happens the plants grow upward, as if they were loving God with all their being. Then they unite, almost as if they were loving one another as the Persons of the Trinity love one another. From two they become one. They love one another to the point of abandonment, to the point of losing their personalities, so to speak, like Jesus in his forsakenness. Then from the flower that blossoms, a fruit is born and life, therefore, continues. It is like God’s eternal Life imprinted in nature. The Old and the New Testaments form a single tree. Its flowering happened in the fullness of time, and its only flower was Mary. The fruit which followed was Jesus. The tree of humanity was
Easter 1975 {rokbox title=|Pasqua 1975| size=|561 350| thumb=|images/scritti/1975-pasqua-gen3-p.jpg|}images/scritti/1975-pasqua-gen3.jpg{/rokbox} Dear Gen 3*, Easter is drawing closer and it seems that it was just Christmas. I have the impression that time is passing quickly and I feel in the depth of my heart - I confide this to you – that I have resigned to let it pass quickly as long as it is all love. That is, as long as at the eve of each day I can say: “Also today I have loved.” When I will then go up to Jesus, he will tell me that I have lived as a perfect Gen. On this Easter that reminds us of how Jesus, after dying, was resurrected, and how we too will one day rise up with our bodies, I would like that all of you would live so that each evening you can say: Also today I have loved. Almost every day I receive news about people who have left for the heavenly Mariapolis: adults, the elderly, youth and gen.We do not
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