{"id":290434,"date":"2010-10-19T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/stories-of-reconcilliation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:35:40","slug":"stories-of-reconcilliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/stories-of-reconcilliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of reconcilliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/layout\/edit\/foto\/foto2010\/101019-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>&#8220;The Work of Mary (Focolare Movement) has been in the Middle East since 1967.<\/strong> It is rooted in the local culture, in deep communion with the universal   Church and with the local churches, under the blessing and care of the   Patricarchs and of the local Bishops. There are some 15,000 Catholic   members and adherents from various rites.<\/p>\n<p>Striving for continual re-evangelization through living contact with  the  Word of God, members of the Work of Mary strive to face the  suffering  and challenges of the Middle East in the light of the Word.\u00a0  Following  the teachings of the Church, its members commit themselves to  giving  witness to the Gospel in the midst of the society in which they  live.<\/p>\n<p>The spirituality of communion that is lived in the Work of Mary leads   its members to experience the Risen Lord in the midst of His People,   instilling courage within them in front of the numberless challenges   they face.<\/p>\n<p>Many families, tempted by emigration, strengthened by the support of  the  community, have decided to remain in their country and, together  with  others, help to build a better future.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, crucified and abandoned, inexhaustible font of love and of new   life, is the answer, the way, and indispensible means for spreading  the  culture of the Resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous Orthodox brothers and sisters share in the spirituality of  the  Work of Mary with their Catholic brothers and sisters. Inserted  within  their own churches and powerfully bound by the charity of  Christ, they  live and work together for the realization of Jesus\u2019  Testament: \u201cthat  all be one\u201d (John 17:21).<\/p>\n<p>With a few Muslim and Hebrew freinds there is a profound dialogue of   life and of religious experience, living and working together for peace   and for universal fraternity.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Rita Moussallem, a Lebanese member of the Focolare Movement, shared at the special Synod for the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}