{"id":306728,"date":"2019-01-01T22:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/nine-questions-to-maria-voce\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:47","slug":"nine-questions-to-maria-voce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/nine-questions-to-maria-voce\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine questions to Maria Voce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From an interview with Focolare President Maria Voce, originally published in the January issue of Neue Stadt magazine<\/em>  <strong>1. What makes you laugh?<\/strong> Bloopers. For example I\u2019m walking, I don\u2019t see a step and find myself on the ground. I laugh so hard inside it\u2019s difficult to get up!  <strong>2. What gets you mad?<\/strong> I don\u2019t feel anger grow inside me. At the most I feel sorry \u2013 for something that\u2019s happened, that\u2019s been said to me or annoyed me.  <strong>3. What\u2019s been the most important experience of your life?<\/strong> When I met a group of young people whose unity and witness fascinated me. They were consistent with the Christianity they lived, loving and being at the service of everyone, without ever judging anyone. This led to me getting to know the Focolare. My life changed the moment I truly listened to someone, thinking that he was my brother, that Jesus was within him.  <strong>4. What are your weaknesses?<\/strong> Curiosity. When I hear two people talking outside my door I can\u2019t help but bend an ear. Each time I have to take a step and set that aside.  <strong>5. And your strengths?<\/strong> Optimism and trust. I trust in God and in others, even if I don\u2019t know them, even if I realize that my trust is misplaced. This makes it easy to relate to others.  <strong>6. Where is your favorite place?<\/strong> I like the whole world. But in terms of a favorite place, I think of a comfortable house, where there are people with whom I can have true, deep communion. If possible, it would be a warm place with sun \u2013 on the shore! In my mind this house would be in a city, since I am a pretty social person.  <strong>7. What helps you rebuild your strength?<\/strong> A good sleep after having lived the present moment well and entrusted my worries to the Eternal Father.  <strong>8. What worries you?<\/strong> Everything that has to do with conflict and hostility: wars, family quarrels, unresolved problems. Many times there is nothing I can do about it, but if I can, I try to find a solution or help others find one.  <strong>9. What do you have at heart as you guide the Focolare Movement?<\/strong> For the movement to be an authentic witness of the charism of unity. There are groups all over the world who are living it this very moment. This gives me peace, it gives me confidence. This is where new ideas are born \u2013 new ways of incarnating. May they bring the charism of unity forward so that it achieves the goal Jesus prayed for: \u201cThat they may all be one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Focolare President Maria Voce, originally published in the January issue of Neue Stadt magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-306728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306728","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}