{"id":307504,"date":"2020-08-26T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gospel-living-2-for-each-other\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:18","slug":"gospel-living-2-for-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gospel-living-2-for-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel living\/2 &#8211; For each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How often does God use a person to draw someone else close to him? We should never forget him, because we too could one day become his instrument for someone. <\/em>  <strong>A new hope <\/strong> Having been in the U.S. to study, I decided to return to my country at the insistence of my parents. But I was stuck in quarantine at an institution near the border with about 500 people. I had the exact same feeling as if I were in jail.  Fortunately, my phone kept me connected to the outside world. Whenever I met someone, I heard the same questions I had about what was happening.  During that time I met a Salesian priest at a distance. Although he was as isolated as I was, he emanated a peace that neither I nor the others had. It was as if he was not surprised at anything. At first he celebrated mass alone in his small room, then I began to attend.  In short, I returned to the sacraments and my previous life of faith, even if no longer as before. Even my girlfriend noticed that I had changed. Sometimes I think: if this transformation happened in me, can it be that it has also happened for others?  A new hope is born within me: that the world that previously seemed to take it away from me can now refind its way in other directions. <em>K., Slovakia<\/em>  <strong>Baby carriage <\/strong> I met a young Gypsy girl who was expecting a baby. She needed everything, from clothing to all the baby gear for the birth of her child.  I had read in the Gospel, &#8220;Whatever you ask of the Father&#8230; he will give it to you&#8221;. That day with faith I asked Jesus during Mass for a baby carriage. Later at school, I committed myself more than ever to love my classmates and teachers.  Back home in the evening, I learned from my mother that a neighbour, knowing that I help the poor, had left something for me. It was a baby carriage! I was moved by this prompt response from providence. <em>C., Spain<\/em>  <strong>Blessing <\/strong> Working as a nurse for a month right during that period of the coronavirus, in the hospital where I served I shared the loneliness of several patients who passed to the other life without the comfort of their loved ones at their side.  The strongest experience, however, was after I learned from my mother that, according to the pope&#8217;s words, even doctors and nurses were qualified to give a blessing to the deceased patients. I was able to draw a cross on the forehead and chest of several of them before filing the paperwork to confirm their deaths and send their bodies to the morgue. <em>Joseph, Italy<\/em> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Edited by Stefania Tanesini<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often does God use a person to draw someone else close to him? We should never forget him, because we too could one day become his instrument for someone.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307504","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=307504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}