{"id":243990,"date":"2022-01-01T02:52:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/postbiografia\/dio-e-amore\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:22:09","slug":"dio-e-amore","status":"publish","type":"postbiografia","link":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/postbiografia\/dio-e-amore\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against the background of the collapse of everything, in the hatred and violence of war, in 1943 Chiara made the &#8220;dazzling discovery&#8221; of the One who remains: God, who she experienced as Love.<br \/>\n\u201cA fact. I was teaching. A visiting priest [\u2026] asked to speak to me. He asked me to offer an hour of my day for his intentions. I answered: why not the whole day? Impressed by this youthful generosity [\u2026] he said, \u00abremember that God loves you immensely\u00bb. It was like a bolt of lightning. &#8220;God loves me immensely&#8221;. &#8220;God loves me immensely&#8221;. I said it, I repeated it to my companions: God loves you immensely. God loves us immensely. From that moment I saw God present everywhere with his love: in my days, in my nights, in my impulses, in my resolutions, in sad, harsh and difficult situations. He was always there, in every place, explaining things to me. What did he explain to me? That everything is love: what I am and what happens to me: what we are and what concerns us [&#8230;]. And he sustains me and opens my eyes to everything and everyone, as well as to the fruits of his love. The conversion had taken place. &#8220;The newness&#8221; had flashed before my mind: I knew who God is. God is Love\u201d<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the background of the collapse of everything, in the hatred and violence of war, in 1943 Chiara made the &#8220;dazzling discovery&#8221; of the One who remains: God, who she experienced as Love. \u201cA fact. I was teaching. A visiting priest [\u2026] asked to speak to me. He asked me to offer an hour of my day for his intentions. I answered: why not the whole day? Impressed by this youthful generosity [\u2026] he said, \u00abremember that God loves you immensely\u00bb. It was like a bolt of lightning. &#8220;God loves me immensely&#8221;. &#8220;God loves me immensely&#8221;. I said it, I repeated it to my companions: God loves you immensely. God loves us immensely. From that moment I saw God present everywhere with his love: in my days, in my nights, in my impulses, in my resolutions, in sad, harsh and difficult situations. He was always there, in every place, explaining things to me. What did he explain to me? That everything is love: what I am and what happens to me: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":243457,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[2474],"cat_biografia":[2475],"class_list":["post-243990","postbiografia","type-postbiografia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biografia-en","cat_biografia-timeline-bio-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/postbiografia\/243990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/postbiografia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/postbiografia"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243990"},{"taxonomy":"cat_biografia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_biografia?post=243990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}