{"id":308116,"date":"2021-11-29T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:54","slug":"chiara-lubich-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: Be the change you want to see in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On 4 March 1989, Chiara Lubich answered questions from the animators of Youth for a United World. In this extract she refers to the care of creation, a new issue at that time and a pressing need for all humanity today.<\/em>  \u2026 the development of science, the development of technology, is something enormous and marvellous which has amazed everyone. \u2026 But it\u2019s happened so often without any reference to God.  If we continue like this, our planet could explode from one minute to the next and throw us into a different kind of catastrophe \u2013 no longer an atomic disaster but an ecological disaster.  It\u2019s almost as if, over these last few decades, human beings have been trampling, crash, crash, through the mud with enormous heavy boots, splashing mud everywhere, throwing into the sky things that don\u2019t belong there, and into the rivers things that don\u2019t belong there, pouring into the oceans things that don\u2019t belong there. They\u2019ve ruined the trees, ruined nature&#8230;.  Yet, at the same time, there have been many new discoveries, many wonderful things and great developments. So, there is good mixed with the bad. But they didn\u2019t listen to God, they were hidden from God, and now this phenomenon is forcing us to face the situation together, with a united world.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t solve this problem together, we will never solve it.  In other words, everything tends toward unity. Even the negative things make us realize that, yes, universal fraternity is essential, but it has to be in God. Yes, things should be done differently; we have to live on this earth, not blow it up. But we have to remember that God exists.  So, there is this thrust, this turn-around, but it\u2019s making everything tend towards unity, forcing us to be one, like the ecological problem, which is forcing us to bring about a different kind of fraternity.  All these events, especially the painful ones, which are more difficult to interpret, should be seen in two ways. In one sense, they are as they are, but something else is involved, too.\u00a0 God\u2019s hand is there, God\u2019s providence which transforms them and makes them into the fuel for our spiritual life.  The cross was needed to redeem us, that suffering was necessary, that cry: \u201cMy God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d to save us.  Our suffering is also necessary to create a new world, to change the world, to change people and creation- suffering is needed, it\u2019s necessary. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p> (Chiara Lubich, Answers to the questions of the animators of Youth for a United World, Castel Gandolfo, 4 March 1989)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 March 1989, Chiara Lubich answered questions from the animators of Youth for a United World. 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