Jesus Forsaken

Chapter after chapter unfold a great love story, increasingly far-reaching. The result will be an invitation to us to respond also to the cry that bursts from within the God-Man and rises up globally from humankind. A cry that invokes love.

How could the Son of God feel forsaken, abandoned by the Father? How could the Father abandon the Son? This is the mystery that Chiara Lubich encountered at the age of twenty-four on January 24, 1944. Her discovery was disarming: If at that moment he suffered the most, it means that at that moment he loved the most. Let’s make him the Ideal of our lives! Let’s go look for him and ‘console’ him wherever he is suffering – in any suffering.

A great love story unfolds chapter after chapter, reaching from ancient Jerusalem to your front door. The result is a personal invitation to respond, as Christians have done for two thousand years, to the cry that bursts from within the God-Man and rises up from all humankind, a cry that invokes love.

The selection of texts and introductions throughout are a superb guide to understanding more deeply the Person Chiara described as the key to unity, Jesus Crucified and Forsaken. I will be returning to this valuable resource for my meditation again and again. Bishop Brendan Leahy,

Diocese of Limerick, Ireland In God’s ever surprising providence, it was the destiny of an Italian girl, Chiara Lubich, to discover a summit of the Gospel in the cry of Jesus, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? This fascinatingly written volume is an invitation to trace the resultant drama in the life of Chiara Lubich, as well as among her followers in the Focolare Movement, the Church, the Great Religions and in humanity. Fr. Tom Norris,

Author of A Fractured Relationship