{"id":305484,"date":"2017-09-16T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubichs-exclusive-choice\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:35:19","slug":"chiara-lubichs-exclusive-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubichs-exclusive-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich\u2019s exclusive choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155928 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170916-02a.jpg\" alt=\"20170916-02a\" width=\"368\" height=\"245\" \/>\u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/spiritualita-dellunita\/gesu-abbandonato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesus Forsaken<\/a>,<\/strong> God\u2019s infinite love is manifested, and is placed by the Father in the hearts of believers to bring about, right now, his plan for humanity: unity.  <strong>To love Jesus Forsaken<\/strong> means to relive his Passion within ourselves, that continuous passage (for those of us still on our journey) from death to life, from the absence of God to his presence, which characterizes the Christian existence.  <strong>This does not mean to give up <\/strong>or to want to suffer as Jesus did, but rather to retrace his steps along the Way he opened, and to recognize \u2013 beyond appearances \u2013 his active presence in everything that is not God in us and around us.  <strong>It means saying \u2018yes\u2019 to Him and like Him, <\/strong>so that the Holy Spirit can break through the nothingness we have created for ourselves and increase the gift of divine <em>agape<\/em> (God\u2019s love) which opens us up to the future, eternal life, and allows us to share in it.  <strong>Jesus Forsaken<\/strong>, simultaneously, pushes us to go towards humanity, there where it suffers most and lives in darkness. This is how Jesus Forsaken, embraced and loved, brings love where there is hatred, life where there is death, communion and unity where there is division. Loving Jesus Forsaken therefore means hoping against every hope, nearness to God where God is not, the presence of God where there is God\u2019s silence.  <strong>And this hope is certainty<\/strong> in a world and in a human history which do not close in on themselves, but open themselves to the ever-new encounter with God. In Him, they open themselves to the ever-new encounter among humans, in a fraternal communion with truly universal dimensions.  &nbsp;  From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/chi-e-chiara\/pasquale-foresi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasquale Foresi<\/a> &#8211; LUCE CHE SI INCARNA \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/libri\/9788831151719\/luce-che-si-incarna\/\">Citt\u00e0 Nuova 2014 <\/a>pp. 172-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To choose and to love the One who, in the climax of his love for humanity, cried out on the cross: \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d A profound reflection by theologian Pasquale Foresi.<\/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-305484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305484","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=305484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}