Sr Chiara Picierro RIP
On the feast of the Epiphany, in our monastery of Vitorchiano, Sr Chiara died. She was wonderfully full of life. The sudden death after fulgurant illness of a young person is hard to accept. Yet one can with eyes of faith see mysterious, even lovely patterns of coherence. On making profession, Sr Chiara wrote: ‘I live fully only when utterly available to receive God’s love and to live within it. To give ALL is not only to offer what is best in me, what I think I can give; the ALL embraces my limitations, too, and my talent, my sin and my joy.’ Not long ago, knowing she was very ill, she wrote: ‘I think I can see in this business of illness a call from the Lord to grow into self-giving. To live out an offering is about more than giving something; it is about bringing to the Lord what he gives us, and to do so deliberately, embracing what he proposes.’ Sr Chiara fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the faith. Her testimony inspires. Her memory is joyful, sweet.
