The works of Chiara Lubich in volume

June 13, 2026

by Gabriele Nicolò Afflato mystic imbued with poetic vein: this is the distinctive feature of the pages written by Chiara Lubich now collected in the volume, edited by Piero Coda and Alba Sgariglia, Opere di Chiara Lubich. Paradiso ’49 (Rome, Città Nuova, 2026, 547 pages, 35 euros). Writings dating back to the years 1949-1951 are offered in a compact nucleus and accompanied by notes written in later times by Lubich herself, founder of the Focolare Movement. The solidity of the structure facilitates the immediate and happy fruition of the individual gems of the author’s thought (each of them bearing the date of the day, month and year) in which religious dimension, historical substance and human feeling converge. On 2 September 1949, as evidence of this salient synthesis, he wrote: «I heard that I am…