{"id":306088,"date":"2018-04-21T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-may-peace-return\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:59","slug":"chiara-lubich-may-peace-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-may-peace-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: \u201cMay peace return\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We must not cease praying for peace to return.<\/strong> \u2026 In this moment, we should all feel called to follow determinedly a life style which corrects, at least within us (and through the communion of saints in many others) the mistake that has been made. Human beings have not done the will of God, the will of the God of peace. They did their own will.<\/strong> We must do all we can, as never before, to carry out God\u2019s will perfectly. \u201cNot my will but yours be done\u201d. Today these words of Jesus acquire an altogether special importance for us. Compared to His word, everything else must become secondary. We shouldn\u2019t give much importance in our lives to being healthy or sick, to studying or serving, to sleeping or praying, to living or dying. What matters is to make his will our own, to be his will lived out. This is how we lived at the beginning of our Movement when, in the setting of another war,<\/strong> the Spirit gave us the light to understand the true value of things. Faced with the destruction caused by hatred, God revealed himself as the one ideal that does not pass, that no bomb could destroy. God Love. This was the great discovery, a spiritual bomb of such power that it made us literally forget all the bombs falling around us in the war.<\/strong> We discovered that above and beyond everyone and everything there is God who is love. There is his providence which makes all things work together for the good of those who love him. We discovered the signs of his love in each circumstance, even under the lash of suffering. He loved us immensely. How could we love him in return? \u201cIt is not the one who says Lord, Lord, who loves me, but the one who does my will.\u201d We could love God by doing his will. Living like this we got used to listening ever more attentively to \u201cthe voice\u201d within us, the voice of our conscience which emphasized the will of God expressed in different ways:<\/strong> through his Word, in the duties of our state in life, through circumstances and inspirations. We were certain that God would draw us into a divine adventure, at first unknown, where, as both spectators and actors in his design of love, we could give the contribution of our own free will, moment by moment. A short while later he let us perceive something of our future, helping us see clearly the purpose for which the Movement was coming about: to fulfill Jesus\u2019 prayer in his testament, \u201cFather, may they all be one\u201d, working together to achieve a more united world. We can live like this now too.<\/strong> Have we experienced an abrupt and painful change? \u2026 Are we at times fearful and anguished, even wondering whether we are going to be killed? Or are we living life as usual, with all our daily tasks, far from any danger? For all of us what matters is what has most value: not one thing or another, but God\u2019s will. Let\u2019s seek to \u2018listen\u2019 putting his will in the first place in our heart, our memory, our mind. Let\u2019s put, before all else, all our strength at his service. \u2026 In this way, Christ will remain in our hearts and we will be more together, more united, more \u2018one\u2019, sharing everything, praying powerfully for one another and for peace to return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missiles and bombs still obstruct peace in the world. A heartfelt appeal by the Founder of Focolare, taken from an editorial in Citta\u2019 Nuova magazine in February 1991, affirms that God is Love. God alone can be the \u201cspiritual bomb\u201d in people\u2019s lives.<\/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-306088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306088","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=306088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}