{"id":327290,"date":"2015-05-13T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/giordani-this-is-marys-hour\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:00:25","slug":"giordani-this-is-marys-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/giordani-this-is-marys-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Giordani. \u201cThis is Mary\u2019s Hour.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20150513CentroAveSculturaMaria\"<\/strong>\u201cWhen it comes to Mary the universal Church bursts into song<\/strong>. In midst of greyness and boredom, her name appears, the atmosphere clears and endless lights are lit. She is the sun in which God placed his dwelling.\u201d This is how Giordani writes of the Mother of God, singing along with the Church as he places himself amongst the many artists, theologians and holy people who have competed in portraying the virtues of the Virgin Mary: her beauty, the greatness of her role in the economy of the Salvation. His book, Maria modello perfetto, <\/em>(Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Rome, 2012) marks the conclusion of a journey: the progression of Giordani\u2019s understanding of the mystery of Mary and of his attitude towards her. He had often written of her in articles and in the many pages of his books. He had already dedicated a previous book to her in 1944: Maria di Nazareth. <\/em>But up to then, the theme was always contemplation, praise and invocation. In Maria modello perfetto <\/em>there is a difference, which reveals the maturation accomplished in Giordani. There is the same contemplation, but above all imitation<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>of Mary. The intellectual and life relationship of Giordani with the Mother of Jesus enters into a deeper dimension following his encounter with Chiara Lubich<\/a>, in 1948, and with the Movement that was begun by her, popularly known as the Focolare Movement<\/a>, but whose real name is Work of Mary.<\/strong> Right from the start, the experience of Chiara Lubich and of those who had entered into communion with her centred on the Word, especially Jesus\u2019s prayer for unity<\/a>: that spirituality had a strong \u201cMarian stamp\u201d that became clearer and developed further through successive stages. Some of these included: total willingness to germinate the presence of Mary in one\u2019s personal and communitarian spiritual life; to repeat inasmuch as that is possible, the life of Mary, following her path \u2013 the Via Mariae <\/em>(the Way of Mary) \u2013 as it emerges from the Gospel and Tradition; and a very distinctive choice of her as one\u2019s Mother. This reality is what lies behind Giordani\u2019s discourse on Mary.<\/strong> He offers it enriched by his cultural, theological and literary background, and with that characteristic zeal that made him a singular and enthusiastic witness of love towards the Mother of God. \u201cMary incarnates strength because she incarnates love: and love is stronger than death. Only in this does the desperation of the world melt away as new life is given, on this Calvary where we are all assembled by universal guilt (. . .) Poetry, science, wisdom and love become condensed in Mary, who is the refuge in desolation, loadstar in the storm and beauty in the horror. She marks out the way that leads to the Son, so that, through her, He comes more lovingly to us. We\u2019re never alone: the Mother is there. We only need to enkindle her name in the desert night. (. . .) Every saint, every attentive Christian, is on a cross like Christ, but with the Mother beside him. In the most horrendous moment, he sees her imploring eyes, feels the unity with her, and trustingly places his soul in the hands of the Father.\u201d The \u201cImitation of Mary\u201d<\/strong> is presented as a valid goal for women and men, for consecrated virgins, priests and lay people, and it can have social as well as spiritual applications. \u201cThis is Mary\u2019s hour,\u201d Giordani writes<\/strong>, this hour when she wishes to live again in souls that mystically \u201cbecome\u201d her and are able to generate Jesus again in the midst of today\u2019s people who are more and more in need of Him. Giordani sees her especially in the abysmal depths of her Desolation where she becomes the Mother of the Redeemed, the soul of those who know how to welcome her in. He sees her beginning to appear as a viable path of holiness for each one of us. Tommaso Sorgi www.iginogiordani.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the month dedicated to Mary, Tommaso Sorgi, former member of the Italian Parliament and first director of the Igino Giordani Centre, helps us to deepen our understanding of Giordani\u2019s rapport with the Mother of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-327290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327290","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}