{"id":305942,"date":"2018-03-03T01:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T00:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/to-embroider-patterns-of-light-on-the-crowd\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:34","slug":"to-embroider-patterns-of-light-on-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/to-embroider-patterns-of-light-on-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"To embroider patterns of light on the crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162030 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ChiaraLubich_3marzo20181.jpg\" alt=\"ChiaraLubich_3marzo2018\" width=\"363\" height=\"198\" \/>  <strong>\u201cThis is the great attraction<\/strong> <strong> of modern times:<\/strong> to penetrate to the highest contemplation while mingling with everyone, one person alongside others.  I would say even more: to lose oneself in the crowd in order to fill it with the divine, like a piece of bread dipped in wine.  I would say even more: made sharers in God\u2019s plans for humanity, to embroider patterns of light on the crowd, and at the same time to share with our neighbor shame, hunger, troubles, brief joys. Because the attraction of our times, as of all times, is the highest conceivable expression of the human and the divine, Jesus and Mary: the Word of God, a carpenter\u2019s son; the Seat of Wisdom, a mother at home.\u201d  Published in \u201c<em>Chiara Lubich: Essential Writings<\/em>\u201d, New City Press, Hyde Park, New York, 2002, p 169.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-160491 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Anniversary_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Anniversary_logo\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>One of Chiara Lubich\u2019s best known reflections sums up the Focolare founder\u2019s charism on the tenth anniversary of her death. It is to reach \u201cthe highest contemplation\u201d and share in \u201cGod\u2019s plans for humanity.\u201d The charism of unity is a driver of social change.<\/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-305942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305942","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=305942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}