{"id":1824,"date":"2014-10-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/WORDPRESS\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2021-09-02T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T01:20:33","slug":"to-tell-you-that-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/archivio-scritti-en\/to-tell-you-that-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"To Tell You that I Love You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castel Gandolfo, January 29, 1998<\/h1>\n

Love needs declarations\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

“Lately, wherever you went, you left a word that sums up a reality for that community. What word do you have to offer to us ?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chiara: A journalist in Palermo asked me the same question. She said: “We’ve understood that in the Movement you’re able to sum up lots of things in just a few words,” a life, I would say. \u201c
Could you tell me about one of these slogans that you have?” \u201cWell,” I said, “I’ll tell you the latest,” and it’s what I will tell you. It’s what I mentioned to our focolarini priests.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this: “To tell you that I love you,” \u201cTo tell you that I love you.”
I like it, I like it very much, because… I don’t love you only… I love each one of you individually, as much as I can love you, but I love you in order to tell Jesus that I love him, that is, without any personal interests, without wanting to conquer that soul, without wanting to inflame that soul, without wanting to create a group for yourself in the parish, without wanting, let’s say, to give a boost to the Catholic Action group…. Nothing, nothing, only “to tell you that I love you….”
So I celebrate Mass “to tell you that I love you,” I give Communion “to tell you that I love you,” I work in that association, “to tell you that I love you, “only “to tell you that I love you” and for no other reason; unselfishly. This is love. Because either love is unselfish or it’s not love. \u201cTo tell you that I love you.”
I think this phrase is very beautiful…. Someone might object and say: Chiara, it is enough to say: “because I love you.” No, “to tell you that…” because love needs to be declared. The declarations of human love are very important, flowers are a declaration, a letter is a declaration, everything expresses a declaration; they’re necessary. And this is a declaration we make to God: “To tell you that I love you”. And because this declaration is addressed to God, it becomes a prayer. So that our whole day is an activity and our whole day is a prayer.
So my dear priests: \u201cTo tell you that I love you,” all right?<\/p>\n

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Castel Gandolfo, January 29, 1998 Love needs declarations\u2026 (…) “Lately, wherever you went, you left a word that sums up a reality for that community. What word do you have to offer to us ?” Chiara: A journalist in Palermo asked me the same question. She said: “We’ve understood that in the Movement you’re able to sum up lots of things in just a few words,” a life, I would say. \u201cCould you tell me about one of these slogans that you have?” \u201cWell,” I said, “I’ll tell you the latest,” and it’s what I will tell you. It’s what I mentioned to our focolarini priests. It\u2019s this: “To tell you that I love you,” \u201cTo tell you that I love you.”I like it, I like it very much, because… I don’t love you only… I love each one of you individually, as much as I can love you, but I love you in order to tell Jesus that I love him, that is, without any personal interests, without wanting to […]<\/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":[1399,2421],"tag_documenti":[],"tag_documenti_traduzioni":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archivio-scritti-en","tag-1399","tag-export-cl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/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=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti_traduzioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti_traduzioni?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}