{"id":291640,"date":"2008-12-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-lived-gospel-radiates-light\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:50","slug":"the-lived-gospel-radiates-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-lived-gospel-radiates-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The lived gospel \u201cradiates light\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These are some fruits of the Word.<\/strong> All the fruits listed  here, however, have their origin in the same truth. The Word of life, as we  know, is unlike other words. It can not only be heard, it has the power to  accomplish what it says. The Word, a presence of Christ, generates Christ in our  soul and in the souls of others.  <strong>It is true: if we are Christians, then even before living the Word  with commitment,<\/strong> Christ\u2019s life is within us and with it we undoubtedly  have the light of God, and love too. Regrettably they are often hidden, as if in  a chrysalis.  <strong>By living the Gospel, love radiates light and with the light, love  grows<\/strong>: the chrysalis begins to move, and finally the butterfly emerges.  The butterfly is the tiny Christ who begins to dwell in us and grow more and  more\u2026 so that we are increasingly filled with him.  <strong>There is a marvellous description by Paul VI of what the Word  produces:<\/strong> \u201c<em>How is Christ present in a person\u2019s soul? Through the  vehicle and the communication of the Word (\u2026) the divine thought passes, the  Word passes, the Son of God made Man. We could say that the Lord becomes  incarnate within us, when we allow His Word (\u2026) to live within us<\/em>.\u201d  &nbsp;  From: <em>Vivere. La Parola che rinnova \u2013 Citt\u00e0 Nuova Editrice, Roma 2008 <\/em>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Lubich lists the fruits of the lived Word\/3<\/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-291640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291640","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=291640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}