In an article published in 1948, in the journal “Fides”, Chiara Lubich recounts how, through the example of Claire of Assisi, she and her first companions received confirmation of the genuineness of the evangelical way of life which characterised the growing Movement.
On the feast day of St Claire of Assisi, we publish a spiritual thought by Chiara Lubich which encourages every Christian to put God in the first place of the their life.
![[:mt]Insalvaw id-dinja bl-imħabba[:en]Help save the world with love[:]](https://focolaremalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PHOTO-2020-07-18-16-41-52_a.jpg)
[:mt]Silta minn dak li Maria Voce qalet b’mod spontanju fil-16 ta’ Lulju 2020.[:en]What have we learned from the pandemic? Which tools can we use to build a new world? What specific contribution can each of us make? From Maria Voce’s spontaneous words to a Focolare community in Italy on 16th July. [:]
Seventy years ago it was Chiara Lubich herself who defined as “Paradise ‘49” the mystical experience through which God conveyed to her and, through her, to the Movement during its early times, the full understanding of the charism of unity and of the Work that would be born of it. Jesús Moràn, co-President of the Focolare Movement, is also taking part and we asked him to explain its relevance and vision.
Maria Voce, President of the Focolare Movement, at the “Elijah Interfaith Institute” in Jerusalem
Prayer, in order to be such, firstly demands a relationship with Jesus”. Spiritual thoughts by Pasquale Foresi.
Spiritual thought by Chiara Lubich, dated 13 September 1990.
![[:mt]13 ta’ Mejju 1944: Ħsieb ta’ Igino Giordani[:en]13 May 1944: Writing of Igino Giordani[:]](https://focolaremalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PrimiTempi.jpg)
[:mt]It-13 ta’ Mejju hi data importanti fl-istorja ta’ Chiara Lubich u tal-Moviment tal-Fokolari. Igino Giordani, magħruf bħala Foco u li għex ħafna qrib ta’ Chiara jirrakkonta dwar dak li ġara fit-13 ta’ Mejju 1944.[:en]In the story of Chiara Lubich and the Focolare Movement, 13 May is an important date. We shall let Giordani describe the event in 1944.[:]
![[:mt]“Inniżlu għeruqna fil-preżent” – Maria Voce[:en]Let’s live fully in the present moment[:]](https://focolaremalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Comunità-Daegu.bmp)
[:mt]”Niċċelebraw biex niltaqgħu” hu l-motto li l-Moviment tal-Fokolari għażel għas-sena 2020 biex ifakkar it-twelid tal-fundatriċi tiegħu Chiara Lubich. Diskors ta’ Maria Voce fl-Osservatore Romano.[:en]An unexpected way of living Chiara Lubich’s centenary. Maria Voce’s talk in the Osservatore Romano.[:]
![[:mt]L-għajxien tal-Vanġelu: Il fidi tirbaħ[:en]Living the Gospel: faith wins [:]](https://focolaremalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lighthouse-2225445_960_720.jpg)
[:mt]Il-fidi tgħinna niltaqgħu ma’ Ġesù f’kull proxxmu. Esperjenzi dwar l-għajxien tal-Kelma tal-Ħajja.[:en]Chiara Lubich wrote “Faith is a new way “to see”; it is, so to say, the way Jesus sees”. Faith helps us meet Jesus in every neighbour and understand deeply even his inner feelings.[:]