Chiara Lubich
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Church : What Is It Who Is It
$14.95Add to cartIn our contemporary world, many people ask, “What purpose does the Church serve? What does it do?” Chiara responds with a concept that is emerging more and more also in ecumenism, namely, that the Church has the task, within humanity, of being a catalyst for unity. And it can be this because it draws its life from God who is Love.
In her way of viewing the Church and in her efforts to “be” the Church, through her charism of unity Chiara Lubich offers important ideas for living in this era of change. From the very beginning of her spiritual adventure, her approach was anything but passive. She encouraged an approach to Church that spoke of sharing in its life and generating it into life. She never considered it an institution outside or above the people.
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Mary : Her Identity Our Identity
$12.95Add to cartMary has always inspired individuals, families, and nations. Even in a secular era like ours, she is a reference point for many. Indeed, in recent times the understanding of Mary has been “updated” to emphasize not only her extraordinary sanctity, but her as a member with us in the People of God and as a model of the Church. Mary: Her Identity, Our Identity contains a collection of texts on Mary as contemplated by Chiara Lubich. What Chiara told a group of young people sums up who Mary was for her, and who she can be for us: “My vocation, which is also yours, more than speaking with Mary… is to live Mary, to be her, to do as she did, and, above all, that she should re-live in us.”
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Early Letters : At The Origins Of A New Spirituality
$15.95Add to cartChiara Lubich is now being called a great Catholic mystic of our times. Mystics are those individuals whom God allows to have a unique experience of communion with God and insight into the things of God. In these letters we encounter this mystical side of Chiara who is also the bearer of a charism, a gift from the Holy Spirit in response to the special needs of the Church and of the world. Chiaras charism is unity, the unity that Jesus asked for us from his Father: May they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me — so that they may be brought to complete unity (Jn 17: 22-23).
Chiara saw Gods love in everyone and everything. The light of this discovery enveloped her and she felt like she was at the center of the Fathers love. This discovery is at the foundation of Chiaras spirituality which emerges from these early letters. They were written to the young women and others who were drawn by the way she presented the Christian life as a response to Gods love, which was shown to her in Jesus, most especially in his abandonment and death on the Cross.In these letters, the God that Chiara invites us to believe in is Love. The conversion she asks of us is a conversion to Love. Often using the language and style of the saints and mystics of other ages (like Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Francis of Assisi), Chiara communicates her burning desire that Love be loved, that all the world be set ablaze by the fire of Love. Her words are full of fervor, but also simplicity and practical common sense.
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Art Of Loving
$11.95Add to cartHere is a small volume with a collection of texts drawn from the writings of Chiara Lubich. Her simple down-to-earth language draws us into the very meaning of evangelical love and challenges us to start living it. The same ideas shine through each of these lines, a paradigm which she was fond of using during her last days on this earth, in her urgency to spread the Gospel message of unity and peace to everyone. A few simple phrases compose her Art of Loving, which are drawn from the Gospels and disclose the secret of human fulfillment which is found in divine love. ‘Love everyone,’ ‘Be the first to love,’ ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ‘Love each other as I have loved you,’ ‘Make yourself one.’ The universal message of Love is the message of Christianity and it is the Golden Rule of all the Great Religions. It is a message that is written into the DNA of every person, even those who seem far from God. This small book is like a daily handbook for anyone who wishes to answer the call of Love each day in today’s ever-changing society, a call that Chiara Lubich believed to be the primary vocation of every human person and our personal and collective fulfillment.
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Essential Writings : Spirituality Dialogue Culture
$24.95Add to cartTheologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world
religions, including the last four popes, have acknowledged the spiritual gifts
poured forth through Chiara Lubich as unique in Christian history. Her “spirituality of unity” has the ultimate goal of bringing about on earth the unity for which Jesus prayed to his Father: “May they all be one” (John 17:21). This volume gathers her essential writings and presents them in a systematic fashion for the first time. It is a “summa” of the charism of unity, which will lead readers to ponder, understand and experience a spirituality particularly suited to the era in which we live.
