{"id":306354,"date":"2018-07-27T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/mary-the-homemaker\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:37:44","slug":"mary-the-homemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/mary-the-homemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary the homemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>The woman of Nazareth, as a homemaker<\/strong>, offers an enormous challenge for us, urging us to set aside a spirituality based on a fascination for the extraordinary in order to <strong>find mysticism in our daily routines<\/strong>. From theoretical fantasies to a tangible reality in the simplicity of the everyday\u2026 that is where God walks. Ermes Ronchi, Le domande nude del Vangelo (The bare questions of the Gospel), p. 176.  \u201cWe truly need a home. A home is extremely important\u2026 It needs to be kept as most holy Mary kept hers, which hosted no less than Jesus, so she needed to do something in harmony with he who was the Word of God. \u201cIt was the beauty of God, it was brilliant, it was glorious, for glory means God\u2019s brilliance. I don\u2019t know if you can imagine, as a way of saying, God as a sun that is setting. Its rays that shine forth are the Word. The Word of God that became flesh is Jesus. So he is truly the glory, the height of beauty, splendor. \u201cAnd so Mary\u2026 in her home\u2026 she knew how to keep it well, in a way that hosted Jesus well\u2026 <strong>Our calling, if it is a Marian calling, is making a home. You can\u2019t understand Mary if you don\u2019t understand a mother at home, beyond being the seat of wisdom, someone who knew how to keep a home<\/strong>.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chiara Lubich<\/a> on May 30, 1996, at the inauguration of the Gen house in Loppiano, Italy  \u201c<strong>A mother is more about intuitions of the heart than speculations of the intellect, more poetry than philosophy<\/strong>. She is quite magnificent and grounded, close to the human heart. \u201cThus it is so with Mary, mother of mothers, who is the sum of all affection, goodness and mercy, to which all the world\u2019s mothers cannot compare. Mary is peaceful like nature, pure, serene, clear, moderate, beautiful\u2026 She is gifted, spirited, tidy, steadfast, rich with hope. \u201cShe is too close to us and unpretentious to be contemplated\u2026 She brings the divine to earth, like a heavenly plane that gently slopes from a dizzying height of the heavens down to the infinite smallness of creatures.\u201d Chiara Lubich, Disegni di luce (Designs of light), p. 84\u201385.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Focolare Movement dedicated this year to deepening our experience of the Virgin of Nazareth. As it concludes, here are some brief reflections on Mary and taking care of our homes, as places where we care for and grow the presence of Jesus.<\/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-306354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306354","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=306354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}