{"id":339496,"date":"2012-11-03T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/english-chiara-lubich-a-biography\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:01:53","slug":"english-chiara-lubich-a-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/english-chiara-lubich-a-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich &#8211; A Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/biography-chiara-lubich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73438\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0pt none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chiarabiography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p align=\"justify\">The New York Times called Chiara Lubich \u201cone of the most influential women in the Catholic Church.\u201d This biography transports readers inside the story of a young woman, born to a poor family in Trent, who felt called to dedicate her life to God. Against the backdrop of WWII\u2019s devastation, Lubich shared her passion first with a group of young women her age. Torno presents a forthright account of Chiara Lubich and her friends\u2019 collective mystical experience and their resulting life, both profoundly spiritual and deeply human, which always aimed at fulfilling Jesus\u2019 prayer \u201cthat all may be one.\u201d By the 1960\u2019s, her inspiration had reached every corner of Italy and spread throughout Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, and around the world. Wherever she went \u2013 from the jungles of the Cameroon, to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to the skyscrapers of New York, to the Buddhist monasteries of Chiang Mai, Thailand \u2013 she shared her choice of God and the lifestyle it generated. This biography brings to life those people Chiara met along the way \u2013 from everyday folk to political leaders to popes \u2013 and describes how her charism affected each one. He reveals the challenges that arose as a vast movement grew up around Lubich as well as her joy at seeing authentic gospel life spread around the world. Together, they achieved what Chiara defined as \u201c\u2026the great attraction of modern times: to penetrate to the highest contemplation while mingling with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Chiara Lubich was an extraordinary woman, but she was more than that; she inspired and led an extraordinary religious movement, but she was more than that as well. Chiara Lubich was the embodiment of the values of Love and Unity that she espoused; which live on after her not only in the remarkable Focolare movement itself, but in the hearts and souls of people of faiths and cultures worldwide, touched by her spirit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>Rabbi David Rosen, CBE, KSG<\/strong> International Director of Interreligious Affairs, AJC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"right\">Publisher:\u00a0 New City Press (NY)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/biography-chiara-lubich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details\/Orders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Armando Torno<\/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-339496","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\/339496","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=339496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}