Chiara Lubich’s consecration to God on December 7, 1943, when she was 23 years old, laid the foundations of the Focolare Movement. Sixty years later she recalled that moment in a telephone linkup, inviting all members of the Movement to give their lives to God once more.
… Looking back today, we can understand what the 7th of December 1943, the year of the Movement’s birth decades ago, can tell us. It tells us that a charism of the Holy Spirit, a new light came down on earth during those days, a light that, in the mind of God, was destined to quench the burning thirst of this world with the water of Wisdom, to warm it with divine love and thus give life to a new people nourished by the Gospel. And God decided to call me, a girl like many others, and hence my consecration to him, my “yes” to God, soon followed by the “yes” said by many other young women and men.
That day speaks of light, then, and of people giving their lives to God as instruments in his hands for the achievement of his goals.
Light and giving our lives to God: two realities that were extremely useful at that time when there was general confusion, mutual hatred and war. It was a time of darkness, when God’s love, his peace, joy and guidance seemed to be absent from the world, and it seemed that no one was interested in him.
Light and giving our lives to God, two words which heaven wants to repeat to us again today, when many wars continue to be waged on our planet and terrorism has appeared as something even more frightening.
Light means the Word, the Gospel, which is still too little known and, above all, not lived enough.
Giving our lives to God is more necessary and right than ever today, considering that men and women who join causes the pursued by terrorism are ready to give their lives. What then should we Christians do, as followers of a God who was crucified and forsaken in order to bring about a new world, for our salvation and for that Life which will never end? …
We should go out again into the world as living Gospels, so as to immerse it in its Light. We can do this by continuing to live God’s will in the present moment … without forgetting the Word of Life, which is taken from Scripture and offered to us month by month. …
And, almost as if we were reborn, let’s give ourselves completely to God once more, in the path he has chosen for each one of us. In this way, the present and future that God gives us will also be pleasing to him.
Chiara Lubich
(From a telephone conference call, Rocca di Papa, 25th April 1991)
Jesus Abandonado é o puro amor.
A Chiara, um profundo agradecimento pelo seu Sim, que me alcançou e alcançou a tantos. Que ela me ajude a também viver fielmente o meu Sim, de forma a dizer com a minha vida, meu agir, meu falar, que é belo cantar o amor de Deus, e que, em comunhão com os outros, possa gerar os frutos que Deus espera e que ela viu do paraíso.
No compromisso de recomeçar sempre, sigo vivendo na esperança de que atingiremos a meta.
L’amore è il segreto della vita e l’Unita’ è il punto di arrivo della vita. Maria Immacolata fa che lo viva in ogni istante perché colmi i vuoti, colmi le distanze, raccolga i cuori e li porti alla Trinità Gaudio
Dio si è servito di Chiara Lubich per dare un senso alla mia vita di uomo sacerdote e religioso
I thank God for the Charism he gave to us through Chiara. It has helped me and my wife and children to grow in our Christian lives. We pray God to hasten the beatification of Chiara for his glory.
Gracias Chiara.
Il nostro SÌ insieme al SÌ di Chiara di quel 7 dicembre 1943…
Thank you, the interesting story about Chiara 6 who answer the God want, only with *Yes*
Si.Renuevo pero hoy de un modo que se presenta distinto en mi vida personal.Si.Renuevo mi Si en la ayuda de seguir adelante en ayudar a seguir construyendo el Mundo Unido.A pesar de todo .Si
Dios está presente en nuestra vida
Un buen testimonio que ayuda a mucha gente
Adhiero con mi corazón a este movimiento, tratando de practicar cada día el AMOR RECÍPROCO. Gloria Padrós de Henning
Parole attualissime. Chiara è nei nostri cuori sempre.
Très belle journée à chacun, en ce jour de Fête!
Merci de le transmettre surtout à ceux, parmi nous qui sont dans l’épreuve .
De tout cœur unie Marie-Françoise
Bellissimo ma se riusciamo e cercarlo di viverlo
Grazie Chiara per il tuo Sì!
Nel tuo Si il mio si: aiutami ad essere fedele e portare, con gli altri, quei frutti che ti aspetti da noi!