{"id":291626,"date":"2008-10-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-word-a-source-of-god-to-drink-from\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:48","slug":"the-word-a-source-of-god-to-drink-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-word-a-source-of-god-to-drink-from\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word: a source of God to drink from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the start of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich, together with a small  group of friends, began a spiritual journey marked by a deep rediscovery of the  life of the Gospel.  The effect of this life was the birth of a community  made up of those who, after meeting them, began in turn to live the Gospel with  commitment and enthusiasm, communicating their many surprising experiences to  one another. Today the Word of God still occupies a central place. It is  experienced as a source of God (cf DV 7) from which to drink, and to nourish the  soul, as with the Eucharist (cf DV 21).  The habit of sharing experiences  of the Word with one another helped them to bring about an increasingly  authentic evangelisation.  One can understand Chiara\u2019s ardent desire to  leave to those who follow her, only the Gospel. \u201c<em>What remains and will  always remain<\/em>\u201d, she said, \u201c<em>is the Gospel, which is not affected by  time<\/em>\u201d (\u2026) \u201c<em>The Work of Mary will thus remain on earth like another  Mary: completely Gospel, nothing else but Gospel, and because it is Gospel, it  will not die<\/em>\u201d (C. Lubich, Essere tua Parola, Roma, p 85)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of Maria Emmaus Voce\u2019s address to the Synod<\/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-291626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291626","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=291626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}