{"id":306326,"date":"2018-07-15T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/16-july-1949\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:37:38","slug":"16-july-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/16-july-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"16 July 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The beginning of a period of major illuminations<\/strong> (of Chiara Lubich<\/a>) can be said to have begun on July 16, 1949. Igino Giordani<\/a> had arrived on that day in Tonadico, Italy. He was staying at the Orsinger Hotel and was to hold a conference in the meeting hall of the Capuchins. \u201cEnamoured with Saint Catherine of Siena,\u201d Giordani had always dreamed of finding a consecrated virgin like her whom he could follow. Certain that he had found that person in Chiara, he proposed making a vow of obedience to her, thinking that in this way he would be obeying God. He went on to say that then, the two of them would be able to become saints as a duo like Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal<\/strong>. Chiara didn\u2019t understand. The Movement didn\u2019t exist and they didn\u2019t talk about their vows<\/strong>. She felt that she had been born for Jesus\u2019s prayer to the Father “May they all may be one”<\/strong>. She was tempted to let go of his idea, but she had the feeling that his words were rooted in a grace that shouldn\u2019t be lost. So, she said to him: \u201cI am nothing. In fact, I want to live like Jesus Forsaken<\/a> who made himself nothing. You\u2019re also nothing because you live the same way. Well, then, tomorrow we\u2019ll go to church and I\u2019ll say to Jesus Eucharist who will come into my heart as into an empty chalice: \u2018Upon my nothingness, you establish unity with Jesus Eucharist<\/a> in the heart of Foco. And do it in such a way, Jesus, that what comes out is the bond that you have in mind between us.\u2019 And you, Foco, do the same.\u201d That is what they did. Giordani headed for the hall where he had to give his conference, as Chiara felt driven to return to the church<\/strong>. In front of the tabernacle, she was about to pray to Jesus, but, in that very moment, she felt like she couldn\u2019t. She felt that she was totally identified with the Son. She heard herself pronounce the words: \u201cAbba-Father.\u201d She realized that her religious life would have to be different from the way she had lived it up until that moment: no longer turned towards Jesus, but beside Him, her Brother, turned towards the Father. \"\"<\/a>Armando Torno, \u201cPortarTi il mondo fra le braccia. Vita di Chiara Lubich<\/a>\u201d, Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/a>, Rome, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important date in the Focolare Movement was when 29 year old Chiara Lubich and Italian Deputy Igino Giordani made a \u201cpact of unity\u201d that initiated a period of mystical illuminations. This is a description of the event by a well-known Italian journalist.<\/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-306326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306326","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=306326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}