Essential Writings: Spirituality - Dialogue - Culture

by Lubich, Chiara

• ISBN13: 9781565482593
• ISBN10: 156548259X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: New City Pr

Summary

Theologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world religions including the last four popes have acknowledged as unique in Christian history the spiritual gifts poured forth through Chiara Lubich. Her spirituality of unity has the ultimate goal of contributing to the unity for which Jesus prayed to his Father May they all be one Jn 1721. This volume gathers her essential writings and for the first time presents them in a systematic fashion. It is a summa of the charism of unity which will lead readers to ponder understand and experience a spirituality particularly suited to the era in which we live.The history of the Church has seen many radicalisms of love ... that of Francis of Assisi of Ignatius of Loyola. There is also Chiaras radicalism ... which seeks to make this love victorious in every circumstance.Pope John Paul II

Table of Contents

To the Readers	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Spirituality of Unity in the Christian Vocation	p. xv
The Spirituality of Unity in Contemporary Thought and Culture	p. xxv
Editor's Preface	p. xxix
Mysticism for the Third Millennium: Key texts of the spirituality of unity
The Beginnings	p. 3
A New Way of Christian Living	p. 12
Two Sides of the Same Coin	p. 16
Our aim: "May they all be one"	p. 16
The key: Jesus crucified and forsaken	p. 19
A Spirituality of Communion	p. 27
Look at All the Flowers	p. 33
The Way of Unity	p. 36
Mary in the Focolare Movement	p. 38
A Legacy: Be a Family	p. 48
And the Focolare Was Born	p. 49
A New Look at Faith: The core facts of revelation and of the Christian life viewed in the light of the spirituality of unity
A God Who is Love	p. 55
What is essential today	p. 55
How I met you	p. 56
God is within	p. 57
Love the One who is Love	p. 58
God our brother	p. 59
God is powerful; he is the Omnipotent	p. 60
No one ever showed such concern for humanity	p. 61
Thoughts: Grant that I may love you	p. 62
Live within	p. 63
Thoughts: With the Almighty	p. 63
You exist. This is how it is	p. 65
Our "Yes" to God	p. 66
Seeing with new eyes	p. 66
The only good	p. 69
Partnership	p. 70
A sanctity of the people	p. 71
A note of solemnity	p. 74
With feet on the ground	p. 74
Time is fast escaping me	p. 75
Thoughts: Improve always	p. 75
Not mine but yours be done	p. 76
The Art of Loving	p. 77
The little seed	p. 77
Our brothers and sisters	p. 78
The exam	p. 79
As yourself	p. 79
If your eye is simple	p. 80
Enlarge our heart	p. 81
Lord, give me all who are lonely	p. 81
In love what counts is to love	p. 82
Once we have known God	p. 82
Love is what matters	p. 83
Christians' attire	p. 84
There are those who do things for love	p. 84
When we have known suffering	p. 85
Thoughts: Nothing is small if it is done out of love	p. 86
Jesus Forsaken	p. 88
There is no thorn without a rose	p. 88
A paradoxical purpose	p. 89
The cross	p. 89
I have found you	p. 91
The sun must set	p. 92
The hour that awaits us	p. 92
Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani	p. 93
Lament	p. 93
We would die	p. 94
Where is the slavery?	p. 94
"I know only Christ and Christ crucified"	p. 95
Thoughts: The foolishness of love	p. 96
The Dream of a God	p. 98
Unity, a divine word	p. 98
The words of a father	p. 98
He wants to give us heaven	p. 99
Love generates communion	p. 100
When unity is complete	p. 101
If we are united, Jesus is among us	p. 102
Christ will be my cloister	p. 102
If a city were set on fire	p. 103
One city is not enough	p. 105
Thoughts: Bend but never break	p. 108
Church as Communion	p. 110
A myriad of shining pearls	p. 110
The Mother	p. 111
Laity like us	p. 112
Passion for the Church	p. 112
Christ through the centuries	p. 113
The lives of the saints	p. 115
Launched to infinity	p. 116
To become saints as Church	p. 117
Thoughts: Like the angels	p. 118
The Word that Gives Life	p. 120
Nourished on the Word	p. 120
The truth makes us free	p. 120
The Golden Rule	p. 121
A divine balance	p. 123
Watch	p. 125
If we were to live the beatitudes	p. 125
They do not pass	p. 126
Thoughts: To be re-evangelized	p. 127
Jesus in the Eucharist	p. 129
In the bosom of the Father	p. 129
When you are offering your gift	p. 130
His, and our Mass	p. 130
Inconceivable	p. 131
Gratitude	p. 132
Thoughts: Heaven on earth	p. 133
Mary, the Flower of Humanity	p. 135
As a heavenly plane sloping	p. 135
"Explanation" of God	p. 136
My soul magnifies the Lord	p. 137
How beautiful the Mother	p. 137
Two hearts of flesh, clothed in virginity	p. 138
Thoughts: The Desolate	p. 139
I have only one mother on earth	p. 139
Because I want to see her again in you	p. 140
The All-Beautiful	p. 141
The Holy Spirit, the Unknown God	p. 143
Mary and the Holy Spirit	p. 143
You sanctify	p. 144
Often love is not love	p. 144
Thoughts: The inner Master	p. 146
The abyss inside me	p. 147
Thoughts: With Mary	p. 147
Like an empty chalice	p. 148
Living Life	p. 150
Life	p. 150
Whatever happened to boredom?	p. 151
The light of a candle in the sun	p. 152
If a soul gives itself to God sincerely	p. 153
You are everything, I am nothing	p. 154
What really matters	p. 154
But you not pass	p. 155
The Final Hour	p. 157
Still more beautiful	p. 157
Thoughts of gold	p. 158
Stars alight in heaven eternally	p. 159
Death which is the beginning of Life	p. 161
Toward our homeland	p. 161
A love that continues	p. 164
Thoughts: The rehearsal	p. 164
Reflections of Light upon the World: Basic notions of the charism of unity and their practical applications in the Church and the world
The Attraction of Modern Times	p. 169
Alongside others	p. 169
"Have faith, I have conquered the world"	p. 169
Invasion of love	p. 171
We have a great responsibility	p. 172
The resurrection of Rome	p. 173
Like a rainbow	p. 177
The Family: Treasure Chest of Love	p. 179
A living cell	p. 179
Family and Love	p. 180
As in the family, so in society	p. 183
The family is our future	p. 185
The Talents and Gifts of Women	p. 195
In the School of Jesus: Philosophy and Theology	p. 201
The charism of unity and theology	p. 204
The charism of unity and philosophy	p. 209
Persons in Communion	p. 215
Jesus the teacher	p. 215
The charism of unity and education	p. 219
Every life calls for love	p. 224
The charism of unity and psychology	p. 225
The Charism of Unity and Politics	p. 230
People of God	p. 230
Mary, bond of unity among nations	p. 231
Divine diplomacy	p. 233
More wisdom in government	p. 235
Reflections: Universal brotherhood	p. 235
The Movement for Unity in Politics	p. 236
A united Europe for a united world	p. 247
Politics based on communion	p. 257
For an interdependence based on fraternity	p. 264
The Charism of Unity and Economy	p. 269
The "Magna Carta"	p. 269
Underdeveloped Christians	p. 269
The heavens protest	p. 273
Toward an Economy of Communion	p. 274
Fundamental concepts of the Economy of Communion	p. 278
What kind of work is done by the Economy of Communion?	p. 286
The Charism of Unity and the Media	p. 290
Communication and unity	p. 290
Mary and communication	p. 298
The Charism of Unity and the Arts	p. 304
The Madonna of Michelangelo	p. 304
Art, "a new creation"	p. 306
The Beautiful	p. 307
God who is beauty, and the Focolare Movement	p. 307
Artistic vocation - a talent for unity	p. 317
360[degree] Dialogue	p. 320
With Movements and various charisms within the Catholic Church	p. 320
With other Christians	p. 325
With our elder brothers	p. 333
With the world religions	p. 337
The Focolare Movement's experience of interreligious dialogue	p. 344
With Muslims	p. 348
With people of convictions not based in religion	p. 354
On reasons to share our lives	p. 358
To the Youth	p. 360
A united world: an ideal that becomes history	p. 360
To the children	p. 366
Epilogue	p. 369
The vineyard of Jesus forsaken	p. 369
The secret	p. 369
Simply "Thank you"!	p. 370
Bibliography	p. 371
Significant Dates and Events	p. 383
The Focolare Movement	p. 395
Notes	p. 401
Index	p. 413
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