Accendi una cellula viva

Roma 1978 Se ti guardi attorno, per certe città dove passi, rimani sgomento e ti pare che la realizzazione di una società cristiana sia lontana. Il mondo con le sue vanità sembra dominare… E diresti utopia il testamento di Gesù se non pensassi a Lui, che pure ha visto un mondo simile a questo e, al colmo della sua vita, è parso travolto da esso, vinto dal male. Anche Lui guardava a tutta quella folla che amava come se stesso, Lui, Dio, che l’aveva creata; ed avrebbe voluto gettare i ponti che dovevano riunirla come figli al Padre, ed unire fratello a fratello.  Era sceso per ricomporre la famiglia: far di tutti, uno. E invece, nonostante le sue parole di fuoco e di verità – che bruciavano il frascame delle vanità, e dissotterranti l’eterno che è nell’uomo – la gente, molta gente, pur comprendendo, non voleva capire e rimaneva con gli occhi spenti perché l’anima era oscura.E ciò perché li aveva creati liberi. Egli poteva, sceso dal Cielo in terra, redimerli

2021-08-31T02:02:08+02:0021 January 2012|

Light a Living Cell

Rome 1978 If you look around you in some cities you pass through, you are left dismayed and it seems to you that the realization of a Christian society is far off. The world with its vanity seems to dominate.... And you would call the testament of Jesus a utopia if you did not think of him. He saw a world like this too, and at the climax of his life he appeared to be overcome by it, defeated by evil. He, too, looked at all that crowd which he loved as himself. He, God, who had created it. And he would have liked to build the bonds which were going to bring them together as sons of the Father, and unite brother with brother. He came to bring the family together again: to make all one. Instead, despite his words of fire and truth – that burned away the happiness of vanity, uncovering the eternal that is in man – the people, many people, even though they understood, did not

2021-08-15T23:29:24+02:0021 January 2012|

Una spiritualità per i dialoghi

Palermo, 17 gennaio 1998 Giornata di riflessione sull'ebraismo e dell'apertura della Settimana di preghiera per l'unità dei cristiani - Chiara Lubich: "Una spiritualità per i dialoghi"

2022-09-12T12:00:27+02:0018 January 2012|

Seek the things that are above…

Every year the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is held in many parts of the world from 18th to 25th January. Elsewhere it is celebrated at Pentecost. The motto for the Week of Prayer in 2012 refers to Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 15:51-58) and says ‘We shall be transformed because of the victory of Christ Jesus our Lord.’ The Word of Life for this month explores and comments upon this theme. Commetary on the Word of Life: If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. (Col 3:1) Paul is speaking to the community of Colossae. A world exists, he says, where there reigns true love, full communion, justice, peace, holiness and joy. It is a world that sin and corruption can enter no more, a world where the Father's will is perfectly done. This is the world Jesus belongs to. He has opened it up for us with his resurrection, passing

2021-08-15T23:29:44+02:0031 December 2011|

A Continuous Christmas

December 1955 Dearest all, prompted by different circumstances we came up with the idea to live a Word of Life every month. We feel that this practice is also suggested by the upcoming festivity that all Christians await with joy: Christmas. We would like it to be as regular as possible and wish to seriously commit our will to it. In this very important celebration we would like to seal our faithfulness to God by offering something concrete. We feel that He appreciates nothing other than the total offering of our heart to Him, so that He may impress on it His image and physiognomy, so that His life may be imprinted on it. The Gospel shows us how Jesus has a way of reasoning, loving and wanting all of His own, unique and so superior to the way of living, also of us Christians, that for all eras He will be able to make people extract “something” from the Gospel that will be useful to humanity of that era; and

2021-08-15T23:29:34+02:0023 December 2011|
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