{"id":362975,"date":"2024-09-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=362975"},"modified":"2024-09-08T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:15:34","slug":"chiara-lubich-the-basis-of-universal-fraternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-the-basis-of-universal-fraternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: The basis of universal fraternity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/about-us\/#chiaralubich\">Chiara Lubich<\/a><\/strong> Chiara Lubich had an intuition of this in 1977 when she received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in London. Since then, the worldwide expansion of the Focolare spirit has contributed to opening a dialogue with all the major religions of the world. A path that even Chiara had not imagined at the beginning, but that God had revealed to her over time, through events and circumstances; it was a path to pursue towards unity.<br>In this short excerpt, Chiara, in answering a question on the relationship with other religions, reveals the secret to building true universal fraternity: seeking what unites us in diversity.<br>The question put to Chiara is read by Giuseppe Maria Zangh\u00ec, one of the first focolarini. <\/em> (From a reply by Chiara Lubich to a meeting of Muslim friends, Castel Gandolfo, 3 November 2002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chiara Lubich: The basis of universal fraternity\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCcHB4kDc8w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Giuseppe Maria Zangh\u00ec<\/strong><\/em>: This is the question: &#8220;We\u2019d like to ask you, Chiara, how do you feel about the relationship with other religions. What does it make you feel within<br>your heart?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><br><strong><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/strong>: I\u2019ve always felt very comfortable in my contacts with the faithful of other religions! Even though we are different from one another, we have a lot in common, a lot in common, and this unites us. Instead, diversity attracts us; it arouses our curiosity.<br> So, I like these contacts for two reasons: because I get to know new things, I enter into the culture of others, and also because I find brothers and sisters who are like me because we have many beliefs in common.<br> The most important of all \u2013 as I told you the last time I was here \u2013 is that famous Golden Rule, which says \u201cDo not do to others what you wouldn\u2019t want them to do to you.\u201d This sentence can be found in all the most important religions, in their scriptures, in their sacred books. It\u2019s also in the Gospel for Christians.<br>This phrase \u2013 \u201cDo not do to others what you wouldn\u2019t want them to do to you\u201d \u2013 means \u201ctreat your brothers and sisters well, have great respect for them, love them.\u201d And so, when they discover this phrase in their scriptures and I discover the same phrase in my scriptures, I love, they love, and so we love one another, and this is the basis, the first step towards universal fraternity So the first thing is to live the \u201cGolden Rule.\u201d    <br>The second part of the question is about what I feel in my heart when I meet a brother or sister of another religion. I immediately feel a great desire to become friends, to build unity, to have this relationship as brothers and sisters. \u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interreligious dialogue is one of the characteristics of the Focolare Movement,<br \/>one of the dialogues that characterize it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":362966,"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":[2903,2822],"tags":[286,912,913,223],"class_list":["post-362975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiara-lubich-3","category-spiritualita-2","tag-chiara-lubich","tag-notifiche","tag-ppg","tag-spiritualita-dellunita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362975","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=362975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}