{"id":306050,"date":"2018-04-10T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/holiness-a-path-for-all\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:52","slug":"holiness-a-path-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/holiness-a-path-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiness, a path for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-163957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PapaFrancesco-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>The third Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on the call to sanctity in the contemporary world,<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGaudete et Exsultate\u201d<\/a><\/strong> (Rejoice and be glad) was published on 9 April. Five Chapters, 44 pages: not a treatise on holiness, but an invitation to all, especially the young people, to \u201clet the call to sanctity echo once again\u201d indicating its risks, challenges, its opportunities.\u201d Francis remarked &#8211; \u201cHoliness is the nicest countenance of the Church. Also in the most varied environments outside the Catholic Church, the Spirit arouses signs of his presence that even help the disciples of Christ.\u201d To become saints \u2013 the Pope sustained \u2013 we don\u2019t have to copy lifestyles that may seem unreachable: \u201cWhat counts is that each of the faithful discerns his own path and lets the best of himself emerge, that is, all the very personal things God has endowed him with and which does not lie in imitating something which was not conceived for him.\u201d How can we answer this call? It\u2019s done by tracing the path of the evangelical Beatitudes, a positive model \u201cin the light of the Master\u201d and a major road \u201cagainst the current\u201d with respect to the direction of the world everyone pursues.  <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html\"><strong>Gaudete et Exsultate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on the call to sanctity in the contemporary world, \u201cGaudete et Exsultate\u201d (Rejoice and be glad) was published on 9 April. Five Chapters, 44 pages: not a treatise on holiness, but an invitation to all, especially the young people, to \u201clet the call to sanctity echo once again\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306050","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=306050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}