Inaugural Address to the Sophia Summer School "Toward a Culture of Unity"

Abstract

The inaugural discourse delivered by Chiara Lubich in 2001 for the Summer School constitutes the ”founding charter” of the Sophia University Institute. Its beginnings and the novelty that characterizes it are based in a special period of grace in the summer of 1949 involving Chiara and the group of her first companions. This period could be defined as a particular participation in the life and intelligence of God the Trinity in Jesus. Starting from this experience, Chiara describes the specific task of this “university”: to learn Wisdom, the light that illuminates all sciences. Chiara specifies its distinctive characteristics and the conditions necessary to attain it.