{"id":307904,"date":"2021-05-31T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-communion-of-love\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:22","slug":"the-communion-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-communion-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The communion of love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Focolare\u2019s experience is to live in the joy of unity, effect of mutual love, which is God’s will for all of us.<\/em> Dear everyone, I have recently come across a further confirmation of our collective spirituality in a little book that was recommended to me. It is a book by Blessed Baudouin, who lived in the XII century. A Cistercian Abbot, he had become a bishop, then Primate of England and later Papal Legate. In his writings[1]<\/a> he says that monks must live well not only solitude, (\u201cO blessed solitude, the only blessedness\u201d), but also must put into practice \u201ccommunion\u201d with their brothers and sisters. He quotes: \u201cWoe to one who is alone\u201d[2]<\/a> and says: \u201cLove hates being alone.\u201d \u2026 For Blessed Baudouin, there is the love of the one who loves and seeks communion which he calls \u201cthe love of communion\u201d, and there is also the return of love from the one who is loved which brings about \u201cthe communion of love\u201d between among them. Thus there is the love of communion and the communion of love. \u2026 According to him, \u201cthe communion of love\u201d leads to blessedness as can be experienced on earth. It is our experience: it is the joy of unity, the effect of mutual love which is God\u2019s will for us. \u2026 If we live our Christian life fully as our Ideal teaches, (which means in mutual love) we participate – as it is possible on earth – in the glory and praise that is in the Most Holy Trinity. We participate in it in our relationship with God (we are able to glorify Him in our turn and praise Him worthily) and we share in it in our mutual relationship. Blessed Baudouin says: \u201cEvery good, for the mere fact that it is good, needs to be praised.\u201d \u201cEvery good\u201d, every true love therefore including the love among us. This mutual praise and glory, inherent in mutual love, makes us rejoice with the simplicity of children, for all that is joyful in our life of communion. \u2026 So, let us always direct our efforts to mutual love, to the communion of love, so that we can let ourselves be enlightened and warmed by the radiance of His splendor of praise and glory, for the glory of God alone. In this way we will be ever more ready to take this love wherever there are people frozen by mutual indifference and dying from cold. <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n

(From a telephone conference call, Rocca di Papa, October 26, 1995)<\/em> ———————————- [1]<\/a> Baudouin of Ford: Perfect in Love<\/em> [2]<\/a> Eccl 4:10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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