{"id":308058,"date":"2021-10-11T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-as-if-today-were-the-first-day\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:45","slug":"chiara-lubich-as-if-today-were-the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-as-if-today-were-the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: As if today were the first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We are in times that we must walk together, in the synodal style. In this passage we are asked to put love for our brothers and sisters first, with every brother and sister, but especially with those we work with, study with, live with.<\/em>  All our responsibilities can be \u2026 summarized \u00a0in helping our neighbour. This is confirmed by one of those sentences of Scripture that centre on love and that strike a chord within us: &#8220;For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, \u201cYou shall love your neighbour as yourself&#8221; (Gal. 5:14 NRSV).  If that is how things are, then our striving towards holiness means focussing all our attention and all our effort on loving our neighbour. For us, striving towards holiness is not so much about trying to be rid of our faults one by one, as about loving, thinking of others, completely forgetting ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u2026  But we know that whoever loves their neighbour, whoever lives for others, soon realizes that it is no longer they who live, but Christ lives in them. Christ lives in their hearts. And who is Christ? Who is Jesus? He is holiness. We find holiness in Him, whose presence emerges within us because we love. Our holiness comes as a consequence of loving, and we cannot reach it any other way. If we were to seek after holiness for its own sake, we would never reach it. So let\u2019s love then, and nothing else! Let go of everything, even the attachment to holiness, striving only, only, only to love. It\u2019s the only way to be able to make a gift of our holiness to Mary one day. \u2026  Let&#8217;s set off again, as if today were the first day of our revolution of love, the first day of our \u00a0Holy \u00a0Journey. \u00a0Let&#8217;s \u00a0set \u00a0off \u00a0again, \u00a0not \u00a0thinking \u00a0of \u00a0anything \u00a0else, \u00a0because \u00a0love \u00a0sums \u00a0up everything. Let&#8217;s try to love every neighbour as ourselves; and do so by \u201cimmersing ourselves\u201d in every situation. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/vimeo.com\/623446995  (From LUBICH, C; Edited by Michel Vandeleene, Conversazioni in collegamento telefonico, Citt\u00e1 Nuova, Roma, 2019, pp. 120-121).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in times that we must walk together, in the synodal style. In this passage we are asked to put love for our brothers and sisters first, with every brother and sister, but especially with those we work with, study with, live with.<\/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-308058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308058","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=308058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}