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<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Chiara<\/strong>: I often talk about love but really it was a charism of light. Right from the start I could see that this spirit would spread all over the world.\u00a0 Even at the beginning we prayed for this.\u00a0 It was the feast of Christ the King and the reading in the Mass said: \u201cAsk and I will give you all the nations as your inheritance\u201d.\u00a0 I told my companions that we would reach the whole world. And we have. We prayed that we might be instruments to carry this spirit of love and light throughout the world.<\/p>\n I was continuously under the action of this light which guided me on what to do, on how to act, on our way of working, of praying, of studying, of communicating, on how our homes should be, our way of dressing. And then later, on the expansion of the Movement in the continents, on how to organize the Movement and become a people. I foresaw all of this. I would say to my companions in our first focolare: \u201cThere will be a new art, a new form of politics, everything will be renewed\u201d.\u00a0 That\u2019s probably why I didn\u2019t even realize that the war had ended.\u00a0 I was so absorbed by this charisma which was flowing out into the Movement.<\/p>\n The light which came was from another source although I saw my own thought within it. Everything happened gently.\u00a0 The light which came was from another source although I saw my own thought within it. Its touch was gentle.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t crush you because grace refines our nature, it doesn\u2019t destroy it. All my earlier formation was useful because grace raises up our humanity. I wasn\u2019t in the slightest frightened. no! Sometimes people say: Imagine all that responsibility\u2026.I don\u2019t feel any responsibility. If God wanted to create this Opera, let Him do it!<\/p>\n But you know it\u2019s still like that with this light. God guides me.\u00a0 I am guided by this charism which is a gift of the Holy Spirit. I see, I speak and I communicate it and then it comes about.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not me.\u00a0 It\u2019s God using me.\u00a0 He chooses.<\/p>\n We had to fulfil the prayer of Jesus: \u201cMay they all be one\u201d, that is, one family and it\u2019s happening. Of course when I am in the next life, others will continue to carry everything even further ahead.<\/p>\n If I were to leave an inheritance, it would be Jesus in the Midst. Love one another as Jesus has loved us.\u00a0 Be ready to die for one another. Be a family. That\u2019s what I\u2019d say. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Face to Face” <\/em>\u2013 Video interview with Chiara Lubich by Sandra Hogget, Charisma Productions 2002.<\/strong> Copyright: Centro Santa Chiara Audiovisuals<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpts from an interview given by Chiara Lubich. Her legacy: to be a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}