{"id":291692,"date":"2009-09-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/autumn-doing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:55","slug":"autumn-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/autumn-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn: Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three hundred and sixty-five texts<\/strong> drawn from the Fathers of  the Church, saints, theologians, the Magisterium, and other spiritual authors  provide daily nourishment for the year of priests, and an invitation to become  rooted in what is essential. The booklets cover four fundamental aspects of  priestly life: being, doing, the challenges and the opportunities.  <strong>The first booklet focuses on \u201cthe perennial Source of the sap of  life: God<\/strong>, who has looked upon us and loved us, to whom we have given  ourselves with a \u201cradical\u201d choice\u201d, while the second looks at the implications  of how this way of \u201cbeing\u201d is translated into action.  <strong>The editors<\/strong>, Hubertus Blaumeiser and Tonino Gandolfo, have  involved a team of experts from many countries in this work.  <strong>Being and doing is also the subject of the first thought<\/strong>, by  Pope\u00a0 Benedict XVI, taken from his address to the priests of the diocese of  Aosta in 2005. It is relevant to all Christians.  An expression of what we are  \u201cIt is not what you do that is so important but what you are in our priestly  commitment.  Without a doubt, we must do many things and not succumb to laziness, but  all our work will only bear fruit if it is an expression of what we are. If  what we do shows that we are deeply united to Christ,  that we are instruments of Christ, a mouthpiece through which Christ speaks, a hand through which Christ acts: we should be convinced and act with  conviction only to the extent that this is truly the result and expression  of what we are.\u201d  <em>Benedict XVI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second in a series of booklets containing a thought for each day for the year of priests has been published.<\/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-291692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291692","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=291692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}