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Worship, Liturgy and United Community on the Second Vatican Council's anniversary.This is an excerpt of Chiara Lubich's diary of May 4, 1968. 'So if you are about to offer your gift at the altar and you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with him, and then come back and offer your gift to God’ (Mt. 5:23-24).Divine worship and love among brothers and sisters, the love which creates and rebuilds unity, are absolutely inseparable. If a community does not 'fulfil' itself in Christ in full communion it is unfitted, according to the Gospel, to offer true worship to God... Text

Assisi, October 26, 2000 …Urs von Balthasar says that when the Holy Spirit sends one of his charisms, a little window is opened for the first time in heaven, through which it is possible to know truths which, although contained in the patrimony of the Church, appear to be new .Through the charism of unity, that little window revealed to us, for as much as it is possible for us human beings to understand, many of these mysteries which are like the two sides of the same medal: Jesus forsaken and unity. I believe that the little window of St. Francis was unity and poverty. …But generally speaking, charisms – as I said before – have something in common with one another. I feel that this is the case of our charism and that of St. Francis. I am not sufficiently prepared for this analysis. Nonetheless, I can attempt to point out some similarities, also in view of the information that was kindly given to me.Everyone knows, for example, that –