{"id":341760,"date":"2013-03-14T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/rome-subway-station-dedicated-to-chiara-lubich\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:46","slug":"rome-subway-station-dedicated-to-chiara-lubich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/rome-subway-station-dedicated-to-chiara-lubich\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome: Subway station dedicated to Chiara Lubich"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cFrom Rome she spread her ideal of universal brotherhood all over the world.\u201d These are the words that the municipality wished to have engraved on a plaque in the name of the city of Rome at the Viale Libia\u00a0 <\/em>subway station which has been dedicated to Chiara Lubich<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ceremony took place before a small crowd on March 14, 2013 on the fifth anniversary of the Focolare founder\u2019s birth to Heaven. She had lived not far from the station in the early days of the Movement at the Italian capital. Maria Voce<\/strong><\/a> remarked on this in her address:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a beautiful choice of location (. . .) the quarter where for fifteen years Chiara lived both moments of special light as she watched the main features of a work of God begin to emerge, and moments of great suffering as the Movement was under scrutiny and study by the Church.\u201d Speaking at the \u201cChiara Lubich: Charism, History, Culture\u201d<\/strong><\/a> Conference Mayor Gianni Alemanno highlighted the unity between this event and the election of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires to the papacy: \u201cToday we will perform a gesture that is simple, we will unveil a plaque.\u201d\u00a0 May it be a reminder of Chiara to the countless \u00a0people who will pass through this train station and be reminded of this journey of faith as a contribution to a sorely needed new humanism. The choice of a pope who comes from the southern hemisphere is a clear sign of the times. We will only emerge from the economic crisis in which we find ourselves by choosing humility and simplicity.\u201d Later on during the unveiling ceremony, the Mayor paused to dwell on Chiara Lubich\u2019s \u201cdeep bond with Rome where, in the heart of the Trieste<\/em> quarter, she laboured, reflected, wrote and sent out her message.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This relationship with the city of Rome had been affirmed by the conferring of Honorary Citizenship on the Focolare founder on January 22, 2000, her 80th birthday. On that occasion, Maria Voce recalls, Chiara expressed all her \u201cpassion for the Eternal City and also the precise commitment of dedicating herself more, so that Rome, a city so unique in the world, symbol of unity and universality might better correspond to its vocation.\u201d This is a commitment as deep as it is practical for the life of every person: \u201cIn Chiara Lubich\u2019s message,\u201d Maria Voce continued, \u201cwe are offered paths that are drawn from the Gospel: Love is the driving force of history, but we need to know \u2018how to love\u2019 according to that demanding art of loving everyone, being the first to love, loving with facts, making yourself one with the other, being capable of forgiving… This begins from the person next to us: at home, in the condominium, in the quarter, on the street, in the places we study, at work, gathering places, even in Parliament, even in the train station that is a continuous crossroad of people but also symbol of anonymity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"It brings to mind one of the most meaningful pages left to us by Chiara: \u201cThis is the great attraction of modern times: to penetrate into the highest contemplation and remain mixed in among the people, a person alongside others, losing oneself in the crowd in order to infuse it with the Divine Life, as you would dunk a piece of bread into wine\u201d, \u201cto mark the crowd with embroideries of light\u201d \u00a0\u201csharing with others the shame, the hunger, the beatings of life, the brief joys\u201d \u201cbecause the great attraction of our time is the same as every other time. It is the most human and divine thing that you can imagine: Jesus and Mary: the Word of God a carpenter\u2019s son; the Seat of Wisdom, the Mother at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

In thanking Mayor Alemanno, the Capital Administration and all those who worked on the beautiful project, Maria Voce expressed her hope that from their efforts would emerge \u201can inspiration to live everywhere the fully human and fully spiritual vocation of the beloved city of Rome, and to ignite small fires of light and hope for the good of all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the anniversary of her birth to Heaven, a plaque that expresses the closeness that the city feels to the ideals of the founder of the Focolare Movement. Some thoughts from Maria Voce<\/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":[893,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341760","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=341760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}