{"id":290616,"date":"2003-03-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/they-could-have-been-the-last-moments-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:22","slug":"they-could-have-been-the-last-moments-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/they-could-have-been-the-last-moments-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"They could have been the last moments of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Rio de Janeiro: one of most beautiful cities in the world. For some time now I have been living the Word of Life and taking it to various people with Chiara\u2019s commentaries.  One evening, I left work later that usual, yet I didn\u2019t want to go home without consigning the last copy of the Word to a family I visit every month. So I called my mother to let her know I would be late. But in order not to be too late, I took a taxi. In the rearview mirror I saw the face of the driver who said, \u201cYou got in the wrong car, this is a stolen taxi and now you\u2019re coming with me.\u201d I shuddered: \u201cA kidnapper, where will he take me?\u201d The taxi left the city.  We pulled up in front of a Motel, a house of prostitution. He made me get down and pushed me into a room. He remained in the hall and I sat on the bed and thought \u201cwhat will happen to me?\u201d It could have been the moment of my life &#8230;  Then I remembered I still had the Word of Life and so I began reading it slowly. That person came in and shut the door. Sitting down beside me, with his arm over my shoulder he asked, \u201cWhat are you dooing?\u201d I told him it was a commentary on a phrase spoken by Jesus\u2019 in the Gospel which I tried to put into practice. \u201cRead it to me out loud!\u201d, he said aggressively. I think I lived that moment in solemnity, reading each word with love. I hadn\u2019t finished reading when he wripped the page out of my hand and said, \u201cGo on go, get out, you\u2019re too good!\u201d. The Word saved my life.   M.A.C. \u2013 Rio de Janeiro  <strong>(From \u201cI Fioretti di Chiara e dei Focolari\u201d \u2013 San Paolo Editrice)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving Witness<\/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-290616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290616","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=290616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}