{"id":327280,"date":"2015-05-09T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/graziella-de-luca-left-this-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:00:23","slug":"graziella-de-luca-left-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/graziella-de-luca-left-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Graziella De Luca left this world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-123839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1954.05.jpg\" alt=\"1954.05\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" \/>\u201cThe adventure of unity:\u201d<\/strong> this is how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/chi-e-chiara\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a> and her first companions were fond of describing their choice of God as the Ideal that led them to live for the unity of the human family. Graziella De Luca was with Chiara right from the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chi-siamo\/\">Focolare Movement<\/a>. It would be impossible to describe in few words the very fruitful life she lived in spreading the spirituality of unity in many so many places and hearts.  <strong>\u201cI have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning!<\/strong> (Lk 12:49). Chiara had suggested this Gospel sentence to her as a goal, also because of her keen apostolic spirit that led her in great simplicity to share with parliamentarians and simple workers, the great discovery that changed her life, the encounter with God\u2019s love.  <strong>Born in Trent, Italy, on March 12, 1925, Graziella De Luca died on May 9<\/strong>, 2015 at 15:35, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/scelte-e-impegno\/focolarini\/\">focolarine<\/a> gathered around her were praying the <em>Veni Creator Spiritus<\/em>, writes Focolare president, Maria Voce informing the global community of Graziella\u2019s death.  <strong>She continued: \u201cLet us thank God for her abundantly fruitful life<\/strong>. Let us pray for her, in the joy of imagining her already in the Bosom of the Father, with Our Lady and all those who are dear to us. Let us trustfully entrust the Work of Mary to her as it \u201creaches out,\u201d certain that she will help us to set the world on fire with love&#8221;.  Live streaming of the funeral:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/live.focolare.org\/graziella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live.focolare.org\/graziella<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first focolarine to begin the \u201cadventure of unity\u201d with Chiara Lubich in Trent. Her funeral will be held on May 11, 2015, 15:00 at the Focolare\u2019s International Centre in Rocca di Papa, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-327280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327280","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}