{"id":308758,"date":"2024-01-01T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/be-reborn-every-day\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:44:35","slug":"be-reborn-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/be-reborn-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Be reborn every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>  <i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Today, January 1st, we celebrate the World Day of Peace. On this occasion, we offer a writing of Igino Giordani (1894-1980) where he recalls how living in peace can make every day Christmas.<\/span><\/i>  <strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since Christmas is considered by most as one of the grand feasts,<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">more sumptuous than sacred, it would be important to reflect on some of the theme aspects of this event, due to which the history of the world was cut into two sections, pre- and post-. (\u2026)<\/span>  <\/div>\n<div>  <span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">There is an abysmal contrast between the birth of a powerful figure, as the ancient world dreamt of and the obscure birth of Jesus, ignored by many; it is a contrast which in itself characterises the infinite originality of a Christ-king born of a poor woman in a stable. (\u2026)<\/span>  <\/div>\n<div>  <span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The start of his revolution<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">does not foresee arrogance, but humility, to draw the sons of God to heaven, starting from those who ate and slept on the ground: the slaves, the jobless, the foreigners, and the scum.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<div>  <strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Liberty and love were born with that infant: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">his liberty is liberty of love. This is the immense discovery. Universal love that he taught aims to disperse a system of coexistence made up mostly of political power, abuse of authority, idle usury, despise for work, degradation of woman, and corrosive envy. (\u2026)<\/span>  <\/div>\n<div>  <span lang=\"EN-US\">Life, in peace, would allow us to make every day, Christmas.<\/span>  <strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">And this is the revolution of Christ:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to make us be reborn continually against the curse of death. And so the utmost commandment is to love man, which is like loving God. Love the other to the point of giving one\u2019s life for him.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0(<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Igino Giordani<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Christmas as a revolution<\/em>, New City, Rome 1974, n.24, p.18)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, January 1st, we celebrate the World Day of Peace. On this occasion, we offer a writing of Igino Giordani (1894-1980) where he recalls how living in peace can make every day Christmas.<\/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-308758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758","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=308758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}