{"id":156717,"date":"2021-08-15T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/?p=156717"},"modified":"2021-08-15T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:12:48","slug":"kemm-hi-sabiha-ommna-marija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/en\/kemm-hi-sabiha-ommna-marija\/","title":{"rendered":"How beautiful the Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Meditation by Chiara Lubich on how we can live the silence of Mary and at the same time speak to evangelize as Jesus did.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156722\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-156722\" src=\"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MaterCristi_Cerquetti_Loppiano.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MaterCristi_Cerquetti_Loppiano.png 372w, https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MaterCristi_Cerquetti_Loppiano-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mater Cristi&#8221;, Ave Cerquetti, Centre Art, Loppiano, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our Mother is so beautiful in her continuous recollection as shown us by the Gospel: \u201cBut Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart\u201d (Lk 2:19).<br \/>\nThat full silence fascinates the soul who loves.<br \/>\nHow can I live like Mary in her mystical silence when our vocation at times is to speak in order to evangelize?<br \/>\nOur Mother also spoke. And she gave Jesus. There has never been a greater apostle in the world. No one ever spoke such words as she, who gave the Word.<br \/>\nAnd she kept silent. She kept silent because the two could not speak at once. The word must always rest against a silence, like a painting against a background.<br \/>\nShe kept silent because she was a creature. For nothingness does not speak. But upon that nothingness Jesus spoke and said: himself.<br \/>\nGod, Creator and All, spoke upon the nothingness of the creature.<br \/>\nHow then can I live Mary, how can my life be perfumed by her beauty?<br \/>\nBy silencing the creature in me, and upon this silence letting the Spirit of the Lord speak.<br \/>\nIn this way I live Mary and I live Jesus. I live Jesus upon Mary. I live Jesus by living Mary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Original and complete text: New City Press, Chiara Lubich, <em>Essential Writings<\/em> p 137-138<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation by Chiara Lubich on how we can live the silence of Mary and at the same time speak to evangelize as Jesus did.  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