{"id":308148,"date":"2021-12-25T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/christmas-stars-are-shining-on-the-stables\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:58","slug":"christmas-stars-are-shining-on-the-stables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/christmas-stars-are-shining-on-the-stables\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas: stars are shining on the stables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Igino Giordani summed up Christmas in a few significant words: \u201cOur welcoming the child Jesus into the cold grotto of our hearts; giving hospitality to that Light which had found no place elsewhere and decided to shine on us, making all things new. <\/em>  <em>\u201cJesus was born in a stable, to show us that he can be born in our hearts too, which are not unlike a stable. And when he is born in our heart, as in the grotto, the angels sing, the light shines in the night, and peace rains down on earth.<\/em>  <em>Jesus, with his Birth, began a Revolution: he took humanity from the stable and raised it to the stars<\/em><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><em>He made even those strong men who enslaved him become his brothers, his equals.<\/em>  <em>Christmas cannot be reduced to carols and candles. God is not to be made fun of. Our Father in heaven calls for our bread on earth.<\/em>  <em>It is clear: those who want to make us slaves again, to take back our freedom, remain active. And this is done with various kinds of pressure (&#8230;). We lose our freedom, we lose our charity: and so we live according to the flesh. Instead of being willing servants of our sisters and brothers, we exploit them.<\/em>  <em>And yet the law, justice, is this: treat others as you would have them treat you.<\/em>  <em>Mutual service, where justice and charity are one. It is God who lives in us: the Word &#8211; Reason &#8211; who becomes flesh among us and makes the stars shine on the stables.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Igino Giordani, &#8220;La Via&#8221;, [The Way] 24.12.1949.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igino Giordani summed up Christmas in a few significant words: \u201cOur welcoming the child Jesus into the cold grotto of our hearts; giving hospitality to that Light which had found no place elsewhere and decided to shine on us, making all things new.<\/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-308148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308148","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=308148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}