The meditation by CHIARA LUBICH
Here is the text of the meditation we used for our mime:
AS THYSELF
If you enter the Gospel, and this is a big adventure for you, you find yourself as on the edge of a mountain. Yet in high places, yet in God, even if looking around you realize that the mountain is not a single one, but a chain of mountains, and life for you is walking on the edge till the end. Every word from God is the minimum and the maximum He asks you, so when He says "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself", you've got the maximum measure of the fraternal law. Your neighbour is another "yourself" , and you must love him so. If he cries, you'll cry with him; and if he's laughing you'll laugh with him, and if he ignores, you'll get ignorant with him, and if he lost his father you'll share his pain. You and he are two members of Christ, and whether the one or the other is suffering it's the same. 'Cause for you it's God who counts, who's father to both of you. And don't look for excuses to loving. Your neighbour is everyone who passes you by, whether poor or rich, whether nice or ugly, whether ignorant or wise, whether saint or sinner, whether from your country or stranger, whether priest or layman: everyone. Try and love who passes you by in the present moment of life, and you'll discover new sprouts of never known before forces inside you: they will give a new sense to your life and will give an answer to your doubts.
