{"id":242868,"date":"2022-02-17T06:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/spiritualita\/dio-e-amore\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:25:56","slug":"dio-e-amore","status":"publish","type":"spiritualita","link":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/spiritualita\/dio-e-amore\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a letter from 1944, addressed to a girl who shared her ideals, Chiara wrote: \u201cLittle sister in God\u2019s Immense Love! Listen please to the voice of this little heart! You have been dazzled along with me by the flaming brightness of an ideal that surpasses and summarizes everything: By God\u2019s Infinite Love! [\u2026] Love joins us as sisters! Love has called us to Love! Love has spoken in the depths of our hearts, saying: \u201cLook around you. Everything in the world passes away. Each day comes to an end and evening drops so quickly. Each life has its sunset and soon the sunset of your life will be upon you! But never despair: Yes, yes, everything passes away, for nothing of what you see and love is destined to last forever! Everything passes away, leaving you with nothing but hopes and regrets!\u201d But don\u2019t despair: Your constant hope tells you: \u201cYes, there is what you are looking for: There is that infinite and immortal longing, a hope that never ends, a faith that breaks through the darkness of death and is a light to those who believe; your hope is not in vain, your believing is not in vain. It\u2019s not in vain! You hope, you believe \u2014 because of Love. This is your future, your present and your past: It\u2019s all summarized in the word Love!\u201d[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feeling and knowing oneself to be loved personally by God becomes the first spur to love others. In fact, how could we love others if we did not know that we are deeply loved? From this assumption, we can grasp the impact of this aspect of the spirituality, also in the ecumenical and interreligious spheres and with those who are motivated by universal and not specifically religious values. Very many people, united in following Christ, base their life on the living certainty that God loves them. In today’s world, they too can \u201crepeat, with full conviction and in truth, the words of John the evangelist: \u201cWe have known and believe in the love that God has for us\u201d [3]<\/a>. Furthermore, it is not difficult to find consonance between this cornerstone of Chiara Lubich’s spirituality and other religious experiences, as in the case of Islam. Addressing those present in the Harlem Mosque in 1997, Chiara stated: \u201cWhat immediately made us feel especially close to our Muslim brothers and sisters was the fact that we share with you a profound faith in the love of God. As the Qur\u2019an puts it so well, \u2018He is closer to us than our jugular vein\u2019.\u201d[4]<\/a>
\nFurthermore, the Hindu understanding that recognizes God as love by nature and that in love is God\u2019s supreme reality, manifests itself for example in the words of the philosopher Thayumanavar: “God is the first to love us, since it was he who gave us love and increases it in us when we seek him”[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the midst of the carnage of war, the result of hatred, we were dazzled, as if it were for the first time, by the truth about God: ‘God is Love’ (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"cat_spiritualita":[2261],"class_list":["post-242868","spiritualita","type-spiritualita","status-publish","hentry","cat_spiritualita-spiritualita-testi-completi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spiritualita\/242868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spiritualita"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/spiritualita"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242868"},{"taxonomy":"cat_spiritualita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_spiritualita?post=242868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}