{"id":1652,"date":"2014-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/WORDPRESS\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2021-08-15T23:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:29:45","slug":"christians-attire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/archivio-scritti-en\/christians-attire\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians\u2019 attire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome, 1963<\/h1>\n

An invitation to the joy of the Gospel<\/em><\/p>\n

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At times, O Lord, amidst the vanity strolling the city streets, frivolous activities, superficiality, sadness and haste in people everywhere, in every person who passes us by, suddenly the rustle of the habit, the silent and angelic passing of a \u201clittle sister of Foucald,\u201d decidedly humble and unassuming, proclaims to our souls the ideal of her founder who shouted the gospel with his life. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And in us is reborn more vehemently the desire that we too should \u201cspeak you,\u201d we too should \u201cshout you.\u201d But how can we, by our own mere passing by, \u201cgive you\u201d to the world, \u201cspeak you\u201d to the world, be your witnesses, preach you, when we are dressed like everyone else, lost in the crowd as Jesus and Mary were in their times? How will people be able to recognize you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Once again I feel bubbling up in my heart the gospel response, your solution to our dilemma: \u201cBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another\u201d (Jn 13:35).This is the attire that ordinary Christians, old and young, men and women, married or not, adults and children, sick or healthy, can wear in order to shout out always and everywhere with their own lives the One they believe in, the One they want to love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n

(taken from Essential Writings, New City Press, New York, p. 84)<\/p>\n

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Rome, 1963 An invitation to the joy of the Gospel At times, O Lord, amidst the vanity strolling the city streets, frivolous activities, superficiality, sadness and haste in people everywhere, in every person who passes us by, suddenly the rustle of the habit, the silent and angelic passing of a \u201clittle sister of Foucald,\u201d decidedly humble and unassuming, proclaims to our souls the ideal of her founder who shouted the gospel with his life. And in us is reborn more vehemently the desire that we too should \u201cspeak you,\u201d we too should \u201cshout you.\u201d But how can we, by our own mere passing by, \u201cgive you\u201d to the world, \u201cspeak you\u201d to the world, be your witnesses, preach you, when we are dressed like everyone else, lost in the crowd as Jesus and Mary were in their times? How will people be able to recognize you? Once again I feel bubbling up in my heart the gospel response, your solution to our dilemma: \u201cBy this everyone will know that you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1450,2421],"tag_documenti":[],"tag_documenti_traduzioni":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archivio-scritti-en","tag-1450","tag-export-cl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti_traduzioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti_traduzioni?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}