The Ecclesiology in Chiara Lubich

Abstract

This study is meant to shed light on the importance of Chiara Lubich’s charism of unity for ecclesiology. Recognized by the Catholic Church, it is a charism of life and light emerging from the life of a group of young women around Chiara. They put the Word of life into practice, discovering the points of the spirituality and making a commitment with the pact of 1949.

The vision of the Church that prevailed between the Council of Trent and the Second Vatican Council can find its Mystery and model in it: the sacramental dimension, the awareness of the Risen One’s presence even in a little community, a paschal ethic based on “Jesus forsaken” lived in fraternal communion, the vocation to the universal dimension and to the Trinitarian life.