{"id":290544,"date":"2010-07-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gen-4-the-growing-wave-of-love\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:05","slug":"gen-4-the-growing-wave-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gen-4-the-growing-wave-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen 4: the Growing Wave of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

The title announced: \u201cThe World\u2019s Greatest Adventure\u201d. <\/strong>Already during the preparations for the gathering which were done by the older members of the Movement for these little ones, you could feel that this congress was going to be like a game of love played in the light of the Sun which is God. The importance of the event was also underscored by its global dimensions. There was a live link-up with all the Gen4 of the world, with photos, experiences, songs, and skits, which they sent, and there was a link-up via internet. The Gen4 <\/a>congress was made even more precious because of the offering made by the Gen4 who are suffering because of illness and offered their sufferings for the success of this event. One of the main topics was how God manifests himself in history: in Creation, in his friendship with the Chosen People as their protector, defender, guide, and saviour. His greatest gift was the gift of his own Son, Jesus, who reveals to us the very heart of God in the story of the Merciful Father who welcomes back the Prodigal Son. They were introduced to the Prophets, Saints, and all those who, like Chiara, were messengers of God\u2019s love and whose message has reached us.<\/p>\n

\"\"In a video, Chiara herself said again to the Gen4<\/strong>: \u201cDo you know what true happiness is? Try it: It\u2019s the happiness that people have when they love and love and love. When you love you are happy and if you always love, you\u2019ll always be happy. What can you do for the world? Give it happiness. Teach everyone to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her message was received. <\/strong>Flavio said: \u201cDuring one game we had to run back and forth without being captured. . . but then I saw a small score book on the ground. I stopped, picked it up and brought it to its owner right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Joe: \u201cI made a paper airplane, but a boy had lost his. So I gave him mine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Besides many creative and recreational activities, the meetings with many of Chiara\u2019s friends<\/strong> was another opportunity to \u201cexperience the secret of true happiness\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of these was the meeting with Maria Voce (Emmaus)<\/strong> who left them with a rather demanding task:\u00a0 \u201cIf we are united, we can carry ahead this revolution that God has sent into the world through Chiara. You need to bring a wave of love into the world. <\/em>“<\/p>\n

\"\"And the Gen4 accepted the task as can be seen from the echoes<\/strong> that have been arriving now that they have returned home. This is the great challenge that the little ones launch to all of us. One Gen4 invited his friends to a party and told them about what he had lived at the congress. Others updated the communities from which they came. One thing thing is the courage they gained from the Congress. One Gen4 declared that he wants to become a saint. This amazed his listeners and he was asked how he intended to do this. He explained that it is very simple: Holiness is loving each other, always, without measure.<\/p>\n

The wave of love has been launched! <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a message written to all those who could not attend their congress, the Gen4 (children of the Focolare Movement) informed everyone that there were 500 participants who came from many parts of the world<\/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-290544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290544","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=290544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}