{"id":406709,"date":"2026-08-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=406709"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:18:13","slug":"chiara-lubich-untying-humanitys-most-difficult-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich-untying-humanitys-most-difficult-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich: \u201cuntying humanity\u2019s most difficult knots\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is undoubtedly a very difficult time for humanity: wars that continue for years, polarization of every kind, vast numbers of people leaving their homelands in search of a better future that is denied them, climate change, natural disasters\u2026<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of 2001, Chiara Lubich wrote this prayer to Our Lady Untier of Knots at the request of someone who had sent her a postcard of an image from an 18th-century painting housed in the church of St Peter in Augsburg. It seems to have been written for the very times the world is experiencing today. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f2eede\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:54%\">\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PreghieraChiaraNodi.bmp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406687\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7494269980651883;width:361px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PreghieraChiaraNodi.bmp 969w, https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PreghieraChiaraNodi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PreghieraChiaraNodi-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PreghieraChiaraNodi-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:46%\">\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Virgin Untier of Knots,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You, the Immaculate One,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Almighty by grace,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>help us in this time,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>when humanity must<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>untangle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>some of its most difficult knots;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>and grant, through your motherly love,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>that all people<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>may form one family,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>that of the children of God.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is the solution to everything!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Amen!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Chiara Lubich &#8211; 30 November 2001<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:148px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo: \u00a9 Calips -Own work; Johan Georg Melchior Schmidtner; Archivio Generale MdF.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer by the founder of the Focolare Movement to Our Lady, Untier of Knots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":406707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2903],"tags":[2829,3349,3196,4493],"class_list":["post-406709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiara-lubich-3","tag-chiara-lubich-2","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en","tag-preghiera-per-lumanita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406709","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=406709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406711,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406709\/revisions\/406711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}