{"id":308298,"date":"2022-04-25T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-witnessing-to-jesus\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:43:21","slug":"chiara-lubich-witnessing-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-witnessing-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: witnessing to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cGo into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.\u201d This is the word of life that we are trying to put into practice during April 2022. Chiara Lubich\u2019s words also encourage us to be witnesses of the Gospel.<\/em>  How can we bear witness to Jesus? By living the new life he brought on earth, which is the life of love, and by showing others its fruits. With every neighbour I meet, I have to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit who helps me to \u201cmake myself one\u201d with them and to serve them as perfectly as possible. The Spirit gives me the strength I need to love my neighbours even if, in some way, they are my enemies. It is the Spirit who enriches my heart with mercy, enabling me to forgive and understand their needs. It is the Spirit who makes me zealous in communicating, at the right time, all the beautiful things I most treasure in my soul&#8230;  The love of Jesus is revealed and passed on to others through my love. It is like a magnifying glass that concentrates the rays of the sun. When you hold a magnifying glass over some straw, the concentration of the sun\u2019s rays causes the temperature to rise and the straw catches fire. If instead we simply put the straw in the sun, it does not catch fire.  The same can be true for people. They might seem to be indifferent to religion but sometimes &#8211; because this is what God wants &#8211; when they are in contact with someone who participates in God\u2019s love, they \u201ccatch fire\u201d because that person is like a magnifying glass that concentrates the rays, giving them fire and light.  With and through this love of God in our hearts, we can reach further and further, and share our discovery with many other people: <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p> (Chiara Lubich in [Words of Life], Citt\u00e0 Nuova, 2017, pages 691\/2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u201cGo into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.\u201d This is the word of life that we are trying to put into practice during April 2022. Chiara Lubich\u2019s words also encourage us to be witnesses of the Gospel.<\/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-308298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308298","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=308298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}