Kabôd and Claritas

Foundational Biblical Paths to the Mystical Experience of Chiara Lubich

Abstract

First of all, the author offers a biblical excursus on the theme of claritas. In the second, she dwells on Chiara Lubich’s experience, described in terms of great luminosity: fire, flames, light. Short texts by the young woman from Trento are exposed, from which emerges the conviction that she will receive from the Father, through her charism, the same Light of Jesus. It is Claritas, which illuminates all that is human. It is the Holy Spirit