{"id":308416,"date":"2022-08-15T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-imitate-mary-by-living-the-word-of-god\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:43:39","slug":"chiara-lubich-imitate-mary-by-living-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-imitate-mary-by-living-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: imitate Mary by living the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In 1976, in the Italian Citt\u00e1 Nuova magazine\u2019s column &#8220;Open Dialogue&#8221;, a reader asked Chiara Lubich the following question: \u201cEvery now and again I feel guilty for not having loved Mary enough, for thinking very little about her. What do you think I need to do so as to have a true devotion to Mary?\u201d<\/em>  Mary is closer to God than to human beings, and yet she is a creature like us, and stands as such before her Creator. This means that she can be a kind of inclined plane, which reaches from heaven down to earth.  With regard to having a true devotion to her \u2013 down through the centuries many devotions have flourished among the Christian people, giving them a definite idea of Mary\u2019s maternal love through all the big and small trials of life. However, I would advise you to follow a way that brings to birth in your heart a love for Mary similar to the love Jesus has for her.  The fact is that, even though Mary has all those magnificent and extraordinary qualities of which you are aware, she is also \u2018the perfect Christian.\u2019 And that\u2019s because, as you can see from the Gospel, she didn\u2019t live her own life, but allowed the law of God to live in her. She, more than anyone else, can say: \u2018It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me\u2019 (Gal 2:20). Mary is the word of God fully lived out.  So, if you really want to love her, \u2018imitate her.\u2019 You too should be the word of God lived out! And since you can\u2019t live the whole of the Gospel all at once, re-evangelize your life by taking seriously and living every day one of the \u2018Words of Life\u2019 that it contains. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p> (Chiara Lubich, <em>Mary, Flower of Humanity<\/em>, New City UK, 2017, pp. 181-82)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1976, in the Italian Citt\u00e1 Nuova magazine\u2019s column &#8220;Open Dialogue&#8221;, a reader asked Chiara Lubich the following question: \u201cEvery now and again I feel guilty for not having loved Mary enough, for thinking very little about her. What do you think I need to do so as to have a true devotion to Mary?\u201d<\/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-308416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308416","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=308416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}