{"id":326920,"date":"2014-12-23T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-christmas-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:58:56","slug":"a-christmas-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-christmas-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chiara_en.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-116475 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chiara_en.jpg\" alt=\"Chiara_en\" width=\"685\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For humanity to carry on<\/p>\n<p>we need to have the courage to \u201cinvent peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we\u2019ve asked ourselves:<\/p>\n<p>Where do kamikazes get the courage that<\/p>\n<p>a terrible mission such as theirs requires?<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t we then be ready to give our life<\/p>\n<p>for the great ideal of love of God and love of neighbour?<\/p>\n<p>Every person can love<\/p>\n<p>because love for our brothers and sisters is written in our DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The fellowship that Jesus brought on earth would then blossom everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>He became our brother, and made us all brothers and sisters to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Divine Providence<\/p>\n<p>makes use of destructive situations<\/p>\n<p>to spark an unexpected moral jumpstart<\/p>\n<p>and unleash unimagined energy<\/p>\n<p>with which to build a world of peace<\/p>\n<p>and allow humanity to breathe again.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">(Excerpt of Editorial no. 24\/2003 Citt\u00e0 Nuova )<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meditation by Chiara Lubich  (Christmas 2003)<\/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-326920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326920","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=326920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}