Here and Now: Meditations on Living in the Present

Chiara Lubich

Religion & Spirituality

New City

In this book Chiara Lubich explores the many facets of doing God's will, which is one of the central points in the life of the Focolare Movement she founded. Her central thesis is: God is love, and there can be no better way of loving Him in return than by doing what He asks of us. First she puts this fundamental intuition to the test of Scripture. She then moves on to the experiences of some of the great saints, and draws upon the teachings of the Church Fathers, the Second Vatican Council, and the recent popes.

Our Yes to God

New City Press

Unity and Jesus Forsaken

Even though she never bore a child physically Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu deserves the name by which everyone knows her Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Her sayings reveal the qualities that we treasure in every mother playfulness compassion humility calmness evenhandedness the ability to reprove wrongdoing with firmness and love and the ability to maintain a sense of humor even in the most dire circumstances. In this collection Mother Teresa remains alive and through her Jesus whom she so loved and so wants us to love.

Love that Comes from God: Reflections on the Family

Parenting & Relationships

New City Press of the Focolare

This is an in-depth look at the heart of Lubich's spiritual teaching that has fascinated millions of people of all religions over the last 50 years. Jesus came so that all might be one she explains and he personally paid the price for this unity by his death on the cross. Unity is not only the destiny of creation but it can become our everyday experience. This profound book full of new and intriguing insights will touch people across all religious lines even those who have no faith at all.

Jesus: The Heart Of His Message: Unity and Jesus Forsaken

History

World

Only at Night We See the Stars: Finding Light in the Face of Darkness

When Karol Wojtyla succeeded Albino Luciani the pope of 33 days who could possibly have foreseen the consequences The pontificate of the first nonItalian since the sixteenth century indeed has left a lasting imprint on the church and on the world. As the world has faced the tremendous theological social economic and political realignment of the last half of the twentieth century Pope John Paul II has offered clear guidance for Roman Catholics Christians of other denominations members of other great religions and innumerable others of good will. The moving selections from his writings contained here speak of John Paul IIs central creed the good news of Jesus humanitys friend and savior and his relevance to our own life and times.

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

This cry of Jesus, the crucified God, awakens in Chiara Lubich a unique understanding and experience of his mystery. Jesus' abysmal suffering gives light and meaning to every human suffering and reveals the secret to uniting all people to God and to one another. Chiara retraces her spiritual journey that gives life to the Focolare Movement. She weaves together spirituality and theology, prayer and history, revealing a human-divine adventure that in her account becomes a song of joy and gratitude,a love letter to Jesus forsaken.

The Cry of Jesus Crucified and Forsaken

The history of spirituality has never seen a way to God like this one. Till now all forms of spiritual growth have focused on the individual’s discovery of the Beauty of Beauties, the God who fascinates the human heart. And they have striven to find ways in which individuals can be transformed, ways in which they can enter into the ultimate experience. In essence none of this disappears. But the spirituality that Chiara Lubich and her companions have discovered is a “new way” in which people go to God not primarily as individuals, but together. It is a “spirituality of communion,” as described by John Paul II. No longer is the spiritual life about withdrawing from other people, nor just about serving them. It is about living with them in unity, growing together in God. “What do I wish for this book? That it may become nourishment for the lives of many and that it may contribute to making the Church beautiful, so that for the salvation of the world and for the glory of God the Church may live among men and women, as a sign of and a pointer towards happiness.” Cardinal Miloslav Vlk Archbishop of Prague

A New Way: The Spirituality of Unity

Theologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world religions, including the last four popes, have acknowledged as unique in Christian history the spiritual gifts poured forth through Chiara Lubich. Her “spirituality of unity” has the ultimate goal of contributing to the unity for which Jesus prayed to his Father: “May they all be one” (Jn 17:21). This volume gathers her essential writings and for the first time presents them in a systematic fashion. 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. “The history of the Church has seen many radicalisms of love ... that of Francis of Assisi, of Ignatius of Loyola.… There is also Chiara’s radicalism ... which seeks to make this love victorious in every circumstance.” Pope John Paul II

Essential Writings: Spirituality Dialogue Culture

Here 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.

The Art of Loving

Francis Cardinal George (Foreword)

Amy Uelmen (Introduction)

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