{"id":307626,"date":"2020-11-23T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/only-at-night-do-we-see-the-stars\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:36","slug":"only-at-night-do-we-see-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/only-at-night-do-we-see-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Only at night do we see the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Suffering teaches wisdom. This is the belief expressed by Chiara Lubich in the following reflection. We should approach those who suffer not only with compassion, but with an attitude of reverence and listening.<\/em>  Why is that some people, although unlettered, even in religious fields,  have become saints by reading only one book, that of the crucified Christ?  It is because they did not stop at contemplating him, or at venerating him  or at kissing his wounds, but they wanted to <em>relive him <\/em>in themselves. And  those who suffer, and are in darkness, see farther than those who do not  suffer, precisely because the sun must set before we can see the stars.  Suffering teaches what you cannot learn by any other means. It teaches  with the greatest authority. It is the teacher of wisdom, and blessed is the one  who has found wisdom (see Proverbs 3:13). \u201cBlessed are those who mourn, for  they will be comforted\u201d (Mt 5:4). Blessed not only with the reward of heaven, but also with the contemplation of heavenly things while here on earth.  We have to approach with reverence those who suffer, reverence like that  once accorded the elderly when their wisdom was sought. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Taken from<em> \u201cThe sun must set\u201d in <\/em>Chiara Lubich: Essential Writings, New City Press, Hyde Park, New York 2007, p 92.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffering teaches wisdom. This is the belief expressed by Chiara Lubich in the following reflection. We should approach those who suffer not only with compassion, but with an attitude of reverence and listening.<\/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-307626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307626","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=307626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}