Today's Password: 28.January.2017, Saturday

Non risparmiarsi nell’amar

Do not hold back in loving

“We need to enlarge our heart to the measure of the heart of Jesus. How much work that means! 

Yet this is the only thing necessary. When this is done, all is done. It means loving everyone we meet, as God loves him or her. And since we live in time, we must love our neighbors one by one, without holding in our heart any leftover affection for the brother or sister met a moment before. It is the same Jesus, after all, whom we love in everyone. If anything leftover remains, it means that the preceding brother or sister was loved for our sake or for theirs… not for Jesus.”

-Chiara Lubich

Today's Password: 26.January.2017, Thursday

Vivere con sincerità

Be sincere (Live with sincerity)

“How can we do something concrete to prepare the way of the Lord? By asking for His forgiveness each time that we have put up a barrier that prevents us from being in communion with Him. This sincere gesture of humility and truth allows us to stand before Him as we are, acknowledging our fragility, our mistakes, and our sins. At night, before going to sleep, we might stop for a moment to take stock and see how we did and ask for God’s forgiveness.”

Chiara Lubich

Today's Password: 24.January.2017, Tuesday

Superare le divisioni

Overcome divisions

"Do you know what 'making our self one' means? It means 'cutting' with your own culture at its very roots, to enter into another person's culture and understand it, to let them express themselves until you have understood it within. At this point, yes, you could begin a dialogue with them, and pass on the gospel message through the riches that they already possess. 'Making ourselves one' - which 'inculturation' requires - means entering into the other persons' mentality, their traditions, their customs, their 'soul', entering into the culture, to understand it and draw out from it the seeds of the truth, the seeds of the Word, the seeds of the Word of God."

Chiara Lubich

Today's Password: 23.January.2017, Monday

Essere strumenti di riconciliazione.

Be instruments of reconciliation.

“For with you is the fountain of life.” (Psalm 36:9)

This Word of Scripture tells us something so important and vital that it can be an instrument of reconciliation and communion. It reminds us that God alone is the source of life and therefore the source of full communion, peace and joy. The more we drink from this source and live on the living water that is His Word, the more we will come close to one another and live like brothers and sisters. Then the words that follow in this Psalm will come true: ‘in your light we see light,’the light that humanity awaits.”

Chiara Lubich

Today's Password : 22.January.2017, Sunday

Essere misericordiosi

Be merciful

“God shows us, in a new and higher manner, that there is something worth more than suffering: love for others, in the form of mercy. This is the love, which stretches our hearts and arms to embrace the wretched, the poor, repentant sinners, and those whom life has ravaged. Mercy is the final expression of charity; it is what completes it. And charity goes beyond suffering, for suffering belongs to this life alone, whereas love continues into the next. God prefers mercy to sacrifice.”

Chiara Lubich

* Today is also Chiara's birthday. We thank her for saying her YES to God.

Password and Meditation for January 11, 2017

Passwords allow us to access something.  In this case, I have thought of sharing the password that our community, Focolare (Work of Mary) foundress, Chiara Lubich has been sharing with us with her meditations. Simple as they may be, they have helped us go ahead with our lives and gives more color and meaning in our mundane everyday endeavors.

So here you go...

Today's Password
( 11.01.2017 ) Wednesday
Aiutare chi è nelle difficoltà

Help people in difficulty

“We are members of one another, and mutual service is our duty. Jesus did not merely advise us to serve one another, He commanded us to do so. When we help someone out of charity, let us not immediately think ourselves saints. If our neighbor is powerless, we must help him, and we must do so as effectively as he would help himself, if only he could. Or else, what kind of Christians are we?”

Chiara Lubich
(Meditationsp52)

Can you relate or have experiences on how you have lived this password?

Zia's Tresshoppe

My hairdressing graduation day will be in a couple of days.  I am quite excited because finally I will finish and get a certificate from Alternative Learning System.

Meantime, let me introduce to you my facebook page- Zia's TresShoppe.  Why it's called Zia? That is how my nephews and godchildren call me. The word is Italian for Aunt or Auntie.  Tressshoppe is actually a concoction of two archaic words, tress(hair) and shoppe(shop).  I guess it gives a very unique air in my opinion. My husband helped me with the name.

So here you go guys, you can check my fb page out. Thanks! Ü

Zia's Tresshoppe