{"id":342754,"date":"2014-02-05T04:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T03:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/maltese-publication-l-arti-tal-imhabba\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:11:42","slug":"maltese-publication-l-arti-tal-imhabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/maltese-publication-l-arti-tal-imhabba\/","title":{"rendered":"Maltese publication: \u201cL-Arti tal-Im\u0127abba\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-100307 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140205-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"217\" \/>The day before the publication of the book, <em>L-Arti tal Imhabba<\/em> (The Art of Loving) Marisa and Mario from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/\"> Focolare community<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/focolare-worldwide\/europa\/malta\/\">island<\/a> comment: \u201cWe had the opportunity to present a book by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich <\/a>translated into Maltese, and it\u2019s made us very glad!\u201d  The book was presented in a crowded hall on January 17, 2014 in the presence of speakers from five fields of expertise: Professor <strong>Marie Alexander<\/strong> from the Malta University Linguistic Institute; <strong>Natalino Camilleri, <\/strong>General Superior of the Christian Doctrine Society (M.U.S.E.U.M.); <strong>Father Karm Debattista<\/strong>, well-known in Malta in the fields of music and communication; the Reverend <strong>Canon Simon Godfrey, <\/strong>Chancellor of the Anglican Church and <strong>Dr. J. Mifsud, <\/strong>lawyer, journalist and television presenter.  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-100308\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140205-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" \/><strong>The speakers highlighted how the art of loving<\/strong> proposed by Chiara Lubich, is drawn directly from the Gospel and summarised in five points: loving everyone without discrimination; being the first to love; recognizing the presence of Jesus in every neighbour; <em>becoming all things to all people<\/em> as St. Paul says; and loving one another. The commitment to such a way of life is a constant daily effort, but it produces a spiritual disposition that is the first step towards a peaceful revolution capable of changing individual hearts and building a civilization of love. Rev. Simon Godfrey and Dr. J. Mifsud also highlighted the parallelisms between Pope Francis and Chiara Lubich.  Following presentations by the speakers, a family, a young woman and a young boy recounted experiences of living the art of loving, and the <em>Cube of Love<\/em> was introduced.  <strong>At the conclusion<\/strong> of the evening many expressed their joy at <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-100309 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140205-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/>having discovered a new way to face daily life: \u201cThe message is simple, beautiful and strong,\u201d said<strong> Fr. Silvestro<\/strong>, \u201cwithin the reach of anyone.\u201d <strong>Others<\/strong> appreciated something else: \u201cDostoevskij writes that beauty will save the world,\u201d<strong> Stephanie<\/strong> recalled, \u201cand today we have seen a moment of beauty and harmony, because what was being said today pertains to God who is Beauty.\u201d <strong>Miriam commented<\/strong>: \u201cThere was neither believer nor unbeliever: in love we all felt like a family and were free to speak freely.\u201d <strong>Ezio<\/strong>: \u201cI knew this book in Italian, but here I discovered its value. I want to become better at living the art of loving and, with my heart and mind, find many ways to render it more beautiful, more efficacious, more intense, diffusive, more creative and never taken for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Art of Christian Loving&#8221;, a book of meditations by Chiara Lubich, has been translated in Maltese and published in Malta on 17 January 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-342754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342754","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}