{"id":291594,"date":"2008-04-10T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/living-the-word-changes-our-relationship-with-god-and-our-neighbour\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:45","slug":"living-the-word-changes-our-relationship-with-god-and-our-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-word-changes-our-relationship-with-god-and-our-neighbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Word changes our relationship with God and our neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the final spiritual reflection, prepared for the Movement by  Chiara from her hospital bed at the Gemelli hospital\u00a0 shortly before she  \u201cdeparted\u201d, and released recently: <\/em>  \u201cI would like this time to underline the value of relationships,  relationships among us. At the beginning in Trento, our relationship with God  and with our brothers was changed by Living the Word. In this way what we called  a \u201cChristian community\u201d came to life. Let us not forget these beginnings.  Let us build our Opera (Movement) on this foundation.\u201d  Here is part of the first commentary on the Word of Life, still very  relevant, from over 50 years ago. We can take it as a commentary on the  reflection above, to explore it more deeply and translate it into life.  \u201cThe words of the Gospel may seem simple, But what a change they  require! How far they are from our usual way of thinking and acting! Take  courage! Let\u2019s try.  A day spent like this is worth a whole life. In the evening we will not  recognise each other. A joy never experienced before will invade us. A  strength will come to us. God will be with us, because he is with those who  love. One after another, the days will be full. We will slow down at  times, be tempted to discouragement, to stop. And we will want to return to  our old life\u2026  But no! Take courage! God gives us the grace. Let\u2019s  always start again Persevering, we will see the world around us gradually  change. We will see that the Gospel makes life more fascinating, brings  light to the world, gives flavour to our existence, and contains the principle  for solving every problem.  And we will have no peace, until we have shared our extraordinary  experience with others: to friends who understand us, to our relatives, to whoever we feel inspired to give it. Hope will be born  again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Lubich\u2019s last spiritual reflection<\/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-291594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291594","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=291594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}