{"id":328502,"date":"2016-08-28T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/chiara-lubich-gods-immensity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:55","slug":"chiara-lubich-gods-immensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-gods-immensity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: God\u2019s immensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141388 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Immensity_of_God-01.jpg\" alt=\"Immensity_of_God-01\" width=\"310\" height=\"176\" \/>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em>While taking a short break, contemplating the immensity of the universe, the extraordinary beauty and power of nature, my mind rose spontaneously to the Creator of it all, to a new sort of understanding of God\u2019s immensity. (\u2026)  I saw that he is so great, so great, so great that it seemed impossible he should think of us. This impression of God&#8217;s immensity stayed with me for several days. To pray, &#8216;<em>Hallowed be thy name&#8217;<\/em>, or &#8216;<em>Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit&#8217;<\/em>, is different for me now: it has become a need of the heart. \u2026  We are on a journey. When people travel, they are already thinking about the surroundings they will be in on their arrival, the landscape, the city; they are getting ready. We should do the same.  Will we praise God up there? Then let\u2019s start praising him right now, letting our hearts cry out to him with all our love\u2026 Let\u2019s praise him with words and in our hearts.  We can take this opportunity to enliven some of the prayers we say daily which have this purpose. Let\u2019s glorify him also with our whole being.  As we know, the more we become nothing (modelling ourselves on Jesus Forsaken, who reduced himself to nothing) the more we cry out with our lives that God is everything, and so we praise him, we glorify him and adore him.  During the day let\u2019s find many opportunities to adore God and praise him. Let\u2019s do so during our meditation, or when visiting a church, or at Mass. Let\u2019s praise him beyond nature or in the depths of our hearts. Above all, let\u2019s live dead to ourselves and alive to the will of God, to love for our brothers and sisters.  May we too be, as Elizabeth of the Trinity used to say, a living praise of his Glory. In this way we shall experience a bit of paradise, and make up for the indifference to God in many hearts living in the world today.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> (Chiara Lubich, <em>Cercando le cose di lass\u00f9, <\/em>Roma 1992, p. 15-17)  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the upcoming &#8220;Second World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation&#8221;, we publish some excerpts from a writing by the founder of  the Focolare, dated 22 January 1987, regarding a new understanding of God and creation.<\/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-328502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328502","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=328502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}