{"id":292014,"date":"2011-02-01T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/positive-revolution-young-people-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:41:15","slug":"positive-revolution-young-people-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/positive-revolution-young-people-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive RevolutiON! Young people in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-home_right wp-image-23800 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/110201-07-210x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"128\" \/>Many experiences were shared by the young people of the Focolare who told how they live their daily lives: in school, on weekends, organizing solidarity concerts, building \u201cbridges of brotherhood\u201d (like with some Muslim youths from Tangeri). The experiences of suffering were both powerful and profound. These were shared by a young woman with a serious illness, who gave the chance to Maria Voce \u2013 who had been invited to Spain by the youths themselves \u2013 to say something about the key to building unity: Jesus Forsaken, the culmination of God\u2019s love for humankind. She invited the youths to take upon themselves the sufferings of others, the divisions, the difficulties. . . and to transform them into love as Jesus had done.<\/p>\n<p>The Focolare\u2019s president addressed the youth with her usual directness and depth: \u201c<em>In archery, when you want to center the target, you have to look higher, because the arrow descends during its trajectory. You need to look higher in order to hit the target. Look higher, don\u2019t be afraid, you are the protagonists of your life. You all are. And you\u2019ve already begun. How? Like the youths told us earlier: taking up the words of the greatest revolutionary, Jesus Christ. His revolution began two-thousand years ago and it isn\u2019t over yet. Each one of us has to play his part in this revolution, beginning with the word love. Living in love, being love alive for all the people you will meet. Do be satisfied with anything less.\u201d <\/em>And she concluded with a challenge: <em>\u201cThis evening was the beginning of something great. Now carry on, without fear. The world is yours. The positive revolution has begun.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RevolutiON! <\/em>also involved thousands of youths from around the world who already live and work for a more united world in the different zones of the world. The many messages they sent\u00a0 bear witness to this.<\/p>\n<p>The event concluded at midnight with an \u201cexplosive\u201d celebration prepared by the Youth for a United World. Everybody left with joy on their faces, committed to begin right away with the \u201cpositive revolution\u201d as a concrete way of responding to the difficult situation of all young people, not only in Spain.\u00a0 Upcoming events for everyone: The \u201cInternational Meeting of Youth for a Unite World\u201d in Castelgandolfo, Rome, preceding the beatification of John Paul II; and the World Youth Day in August 2011 in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=14]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protagonistas de nuestro mundo gathered hundreds of Spanish youths committed to the renewal of the environments in which they live. Maria Voce\u2019s address: \u201cLook higher if you want to be on target!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292014","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}