Chiara Lubich: “Kindle fires” of unity
The Gospel text chosen for the month of November 2022 encourages us to practice mercy.
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"I sensed that Mary's presence made everything else around me disappear"
Extract from a talk given by Chiara Lubich at the International Congress for Artists entitled “God is Beauty and not only Truth and Goodness”, held in Rome on 23 April 1999
Chiara Lubich – Prophet of Unity
By Maurizio Gentilini. This biography aims at presenting Chiara Lubich’s life and work from a ‘historical’ perspective, offering the reader a rich and well-documented development of facts, situations and experiences.
Holy Week: Reliving the Paschal mysteries
In the following text that Chiara Lubich wrote during Holy Week in the year 2000, she suggested how to live these “holy days”.
DVD: “Chiara Lubich: Love Conquers All”
Portraying the life of Chiara Lubich, the founder of the Focolare Movement, this powerful movie tells the dramatic story of the spiritual and human adventure of a young teacher from Trento, Italy.
Chiara Lubich: Where there is love and charity, there is God
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is celebrated from 18-21 January in the northern hemisphere. In an interview with Bavarian TV in 1988 in Montet (Switzerland), Chiara Lubich spoke specifically about how to make progress on the path to Christian unity.
Jesus wants to give us true peace
On January 1st, on the occasion of the 55th World Day of Peace, Pope Francis stated in his message that “dialogue means listening to each other, discussing, agreeing and walking together.” Chiara Lubich in this passage also invites us to establish relationships of dialogue in order to arrive at true peace.
It's Christmas!
A reflection by Chiara Lubich, Christmas 2005: “There is an atmosphere of expectation. Everyone is touched by it…”
Spending the Day with Mary
An extract from a meditation by Chiara Lubich, 25 September 1986.
We can move mountains
A meditation of Chiara Lubich (Word of Life, December 1949)