CHIARA LUBICH - A Biography
Armando Torno
Reflections on the Eucharistic
mystery
PAPERBACK; 80 PAGES; 2005
ISBN: 1-56548-224-7
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About this Book
The New York Times called Chiara Lubich “one of the most influential
women in the Catholic Church.” This biography transports readers inside
the story of a young woman, born to a poor family in Trent, who felt called
to dedicate her life to God. Against the backdrop of WWII’s devastation,
Lubich shared her passion first with a group of young women her age. Torno
presents a forthright account of Chiara Lubich and her friends’ collective
mystical experience and their resulting life, both profoundly spiritual and
deeply human, which always aimed at fulfilling Jesus’ prayer “that
all may be one.” By the 1960’s, her inspiration had reached every
corner of Italy and spread throughout Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, and
around the world. Wherever she went – from the jungles of the Cameroon,
to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to the skyscrapers of New York, to the Buddhist
monasteries of Chiang Mai, Thailand – she shared her choice of God and
the lifestyle it generated. This biography brings to life those people Chiara
met along the way – from everyday folk to political leaders to popes
– and describes how her charism affected each one. He reveals the challenges
that arose as a vast movement grew up around Lubich as well as her joy at
seeing authentic gospel life spread around the world. Together, they achieved
what Chiara defined as “…the great attraction of modern times:
to penetrate to the highest contemplation while mingling with everyone.”
Some Reviews:
Chiara Lubich was an extraordinary woman, but she was more than that; she
inspired and led an extraordinary religious movement, but she was more than
that as well. Chiara Lubich was the embodiment of the values of Love and Unity
that she espoused; which live on after her not only in the remarkable Focolare
movement itself, but in the hearts and souls of people of faiths and cultures
worldwide, touched by her spirit.
Rabbi David Rosen, CBE, KSG
International Director of Interreligious Affairs, AJC
Despite periods of great
personal anguish, Chiara Lubich gave birth to world-wide movement, born of
the Catholic Church, which came to embrace Protestants, members of the Orthodox
Church, those who followed other world religions, and secular thinkers. Torno’s
biography, without lapsing into hagiography, offers a portrait of an extraordinary
and holy woman whose deepest desire was to fulfill Jesus’ prayer: “That
they all may be one.”
James L. Heft, S.M.
Alton Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California
President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies
About the author Armando
Torno
Armando Torno has edited the cultural pages of Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore
and Corriere della Sera. In addition to his many years of journalistic work,
he has authored fifteen books.
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