{"id":292512,"date":"2011-05-27T05:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/hungary-cradle-of-the-volunteers-of-god\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:05","slug":"hungary-cradle-of-the-volunteers-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/hungary-cradle-of-the-volunteers-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary, Cradle of the Volunteers of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-37790\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;border: 0px none\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/InvasioneUngheria-210x139.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><strong>\u2018God! God! God!<\/strong> <strong>Ring out this ineffable name<\/strong>, source of all rights, justice and freedom, in Parliaments, in town squares, in houses and in offices!\u2019  Wishing to answer this heartfelt plea contained in <strong>Pius XII<\/strong>\u2019s radio message on <strong>10 September 1956<\/strong>, which had been provoked by the repression in Hungary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a> <strong>wrote a letter t<\/strong>hat was to become the \u2018founding charter\u2019 for a new vocation in the Focolare Movement: the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/scelte-e-impegno\/volontari\/\">volunteers of God\u2019<\/a>. Men and women, committed to bringing God, with their own lives, into society, into all the places where they are active.  <strong>\u2018<\/strong>There has come to be,\u2019 Chiara wrote on 15 January 1957, \u2018a society capable of excluding the name of God&#8230; taking the love of God from human hearts. <strong>There must be a society capable of putting Him back in His place.<\/strong>  (&#8230;) \u2018May there be those who hallow Him with all their strength and who gather together with those who feel the very same call to form a bloc under the orders of that Eternal Word which no one can ever cancel from the earth.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110527-01.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37793  alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px;margin-right: 10px;border: 0pt none\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110527-01.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2018There need to be people who follow Jesus exactly as he wants to be followed<\/strong>: denying themselves and taking up their cross. People who believe in this weapon: the cross, more powerful than the most powerful of bombs because the cross is a breach in the soul by which God can enter into hearts \u2026  <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Creating a bloc of people of every age or condition<strong>,<\/strong> linked by the strongest bond that exists<strong>:<\/strong> that mutual love left to us by the dying God become human as his last will and testament \u2026  <strong>Mutual love that forges<\/strong> Christians into a divine unity \u2026 which alone can oppose the unity that comes from selfish interests, from reasons of this earth, from hatred.  \u2018Mutual love which means: practical action, giving all our love to our brothers and sisters out of love for God. \u2018In summary, there need to be disciples of Jesus, genuine disciples <em>in the world<\/em> not just in the religious houses.  <strong>Disciples who <em>voluntarily<\/em> follow Him,<\/strong> motivated only by an illuminated love towards Him, in this hour of darkness&#8230;  <strong>\u2018<em>An army of volunteers<\/em><\/strong>, because love is free&#8230;.\u2018There needs to be \u2026 the building of a new society, renewed by the Good News, where justice and virtue shine out with love&#8230;.(&#8230;)\u2018A society<strong> that bears witness to a single name: God.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer some excerpts from an historical letter of Chiara Lubich that marked the birth of the Volunteers of God.<\/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-292512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292512","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=292512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}