If we are united, Jesus is among us. And this has value. It is worth more than any other treasure that our heart may possess; more than mother, father, brothers, sisters, children. It is worth more than our house, our work, or our property; more than the works of art in a great city like Rome; more than our business deals; more than nature which surrounds us with flowers and fields, the sea and the stars; more than our own soul.
It is he who, inspiring his saints with his eternal truths, leaves his mark upon every age.
This too is his hour. Not so much the hour of a saint but of him, of him among us, of him living in us as we build up - in the unity of love - his Mystical Body.
Chiara Lubich
Essential Writings
New City London, 2007, p. 102