{"id":307406,"date":"2020-06-22T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/right-now\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:02","slug":"right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Right now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following writing by Chiara Lubich helps us to see our reality as it is, in God\u2019s eyes, regardless of the external circumstances in which we find ourselves, which can also be very painful. During his passion, Jesus too was always \u201cturned to the Father\u201d and conformed to his will. With this attitude he became the Risen One, the Saviour.<\/em> \u2026 We have understood that each one of us is a Word of God from all eternity. In fact, St. Paul says: \u201cHe chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world<\/em>.\u201d (Eph 1:4-5). And in another passage, still speaking of us, he adds: \u201cFor those whom he foreknew<\/em>\u201d (Rm 8:29). And we understood that because we are Word of God, we must adopt just one attitude, which is the most intelligent: just like the Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, we must always be \u201cturned\u201d towards the Father, which means towards His will. Moreover, this is how we can fulfil our personality and attain our total freedom. In fact, by living in this way, we allow our true self to live. Now, since we want to do all this, we should ask ourselves: when do we need to have this attitude? We know the answer: it is now, in the present moment. The will of God is to be lived in the present. It is in the present that we must live turned towards the Father, in that present moment which is an essential aspect of our spirituality and of our \u201casceticism\u201d. We cannot disregard it. This way of living is pure gospel. In his gospel, St Matthew quotes these words of Jesus: \u201cSo do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today\u2019s trouble is enough for today\u201d (Mt 6:34) \u2026 Let\u2019s go back, then to our commitment to live God\u2019s will in the present moment as much as possible. Let\u2019s also remember that the will of God to be fulfilled before any other, and in every moment of our day, is that of mutual love, loving one another as Jesus loved us. This is what guarantees our constant renewal. <\/p>\n

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Taken from a telephone conference call, Rocca di Papa, 21st<\/sup> December 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chiara Lubich wrote “Jesus was the manifestation of the Heavenly Father’s fully welcoming love for each one of us\u00a0 and of the love that, consequently, we should have for one another. (…) The welcoming of the other, of the one different \u00a0from us, is the basis of Christian love. It is the starting point, the first step in the construction of that civilization of love, of that culture of communion, to which Jesus calls us especially today”[1] .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-307406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307406","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}