Jezus Opuszczony jako objawienie miłosiernego oblicza Boga: refleksja w świetle pism Chiary Lubich
Jesus Forsaken as the revelation of the merciful image of God: consideration in the context of Chiara Lubich's writings

Author(s): Katarzyna Wasiutyńska
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Chriara Lubich’s (1920–2008) experience of the infinite God’s love towards a man is most completely expressed by Jesus’ cry on the Cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mk 15:34). Words drawn from Psalm 22 express the profoundness and radicalism of the Son’s Kenosis which is realized in the act of incarnation and salvation. However, the key to understand those is rather not the greatness of suffering, but the inconceivable vastness of love leading to Christ ‑ to the encounter and identification with the misery of human sin. This consideration, fitting into the Church’s Extraordinary Jubilee, is a look at the Forsaken through the lens of God’s mercy. Its starting point are the first years of the Focolari community when Chiara slowly discovered His peculiar nature ‑ her letters, published mostly in 2010 by an Italian publishing house Città Nuova and dated 1943–1949, are the witness of that time. A major part of this spiritual journey is also the summer of 1949 which opened a chapter of particular mystical light in Chiara’s life ‑ known as Paradiso ‘49. Further on, a question arises on the ways and message of merciful God’s revelation in Jesus Forsaken: on the possible path leading a man to the intimacy with the Father and on the status of sin and suffering in this context. The final part describes Chiara’s existential attitude which began in her experience: her going out to the world, the nature of her relationship with people and with the universe.

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