{"id":328416,"date":"2016-07-10T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-unity-a-divine-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:37","slug":"chiara-lubich-unity-a-divine-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-unity-a-divine-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich. Unity, A Divine Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_140356\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/news\/2016\/07\/10\/chiara-lubich-lunita-un-sogno-divino\/tramonto\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-140356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140356\" class=\"wp-image-140356 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tramonto.jpg\" alt=\"Foto: Nitin Dhumal\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Nitin Dhumal<\/p><\/div>  <strong>Unity is a divine word. <\/strong>If this word were ever uttered by the Lord God, and people were to apply it to all its possible applications, we would see the world suddenly come to a halt, like a film, and start again in reverse. Countless people would on the wide path to perdition would turn around in their tracks, convert to God and take the narrow path. Families torn apart by quarrels, chilled by misunderstandings and scorn and deadened by divorce would get back together again. Children would be born into an atmosphere of human and divine love, and new men and women would be forged for a more Christian tomorrow.  <strong>Factories often upheld by slaves and steeped in an atmosphere of boredom if not of blasphemy,<\/strong> would become places of peace where everybody did their job for the good of everyone. Schools would break beyond the limits of science, making all forms of knowledge footstools for eternal contemplation learnt at school through a daily unfolding of mysteries that could be intuited from small formulae, natural laws and even numerals . . .  <strong>And the parliaments would be transformed into meeting places for people<\/strong> who are motivated not so much by each one\u2019s positions, but by the common good, without any deceiving of lands or countrymen.  <strong>In, we\u2019d see the world become more good.<\/strong> Heaven would be wondrously poured out over the earth, and the harmony of creation would be a framework for the harmony of hearts. We\u2019d see\u2026  <strong>What a dream! It seems a dream!<\/strong>  And yet You didn\u2019t ask for less when you prayed: \u201cYou will be done on earth as in Heaven\u201d. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Source: Chiara Lubich, <em>L\u2019unit\u00e0<\/em>, compiled by Donato Falmi and Floernce Gillet (Rome: <em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova,<\/em> 2015), originally published in Chiara Lubich, <em>Frammenti<\/em>, (Rome: <em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova, <\/em>1963 and 1992), p. 53-54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1961 when Chiara wrote these words, inspired by her desire to see the law of Heaven reflected here on earth. Utopia?<\/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-328416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328416","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=328416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}