{"id":339480,"date":"2012-08-03T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/english-early-letters-at-the-origins-of-a-new-spirituality\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:01:52","slug":"english-early-letters-at-the-origins-of-a-new-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/english-early-letters-at-the-origins-of-a-new-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Letters: At the Origins of a New Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chiara Lubich is now being called a great Catholic mystic of our times. In these letters we encounter this mystical side of Chiara who is also the bearer of a charism, a gift from the Holy Spirit in response to the special needs of the Church and of the world. Chiara\u2019s charism is unity, the unity that Jesus asked for us from his Father: \u201cMay they all be one as we are one \u2013 I in them and you in me \u2013 so that they may be brought to complete unity\u201d (Jn 17: 22-23). Chiara saw God\u2019s love in everyone and everything. The light of this discovery enveloped her, and she felt like she was at the center of the Father\u2019s love. This discovery is at the foundation of Chiara\u2019s spirituality which emerges from these early letters. They were written to the young women and others who were drawn by the way she presented the Christian life as a response to God\u2019s love, which was shown to her in Jesus, most especially in his abandonment and death on the Cross. In these letters, the God that Chiara invites us to believe in is Love. The conversion she asks of us is a conversion to Love. Often using the language and style of the saints and mystics of other ages (like Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Francis of Assisi), Chiara communicates her burning desire that \u201cLove be loved,\u201d that \u201call the world be set ablaze by the fire of Love.\u201d Her words are full of fervor, but also simplicity and practical common sense. For additional information and orders: (New York) www.newcitypress.com<\/a> \u00a6 (London) newcity.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early letters of Chiara Lubich to her companions and others.<\/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":[2826],"tags":[2815],"class_list":["post-339480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura-2","tag-novita-editoriali-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339480","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=339480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}