«Un modo di vivere “alla Trinità”»

La “spiritualità dell’unità” come “spiritualità collettiva” in Chiara Lubich

Abstract

This contribution intends on analyzing an expression used on more that one occasion by Chiara Lubich (foundress of the Focolare Movement), according to which the Movement’s “spirituality of unity” is a “collective spiritual-ity”. This study proceeds by first considering some areas in which there truly emerges, in the writings of Lubich, the theme of “collective spirituality”, in particular the discourse on holiness and the the image of the “interior cas-tle”. In the second part, the contents of such a spirituality are laid out, deal-ing with the themes of the brother/sister as a “way” to God, the presence of “Jesus in the midst”, the reference to “Jesus forsaken”, that of believers becoming “nothing” in the reciprocal giving of self, and the participation in the life of the Trinity as the ultimate meaning of a “collective spirituality” in the strictly Christian sense.