{"id":327888,"date":"2016-01-05T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-star-and-a-heart\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:02:36","slug":"the-star-and-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-star-and-a-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star and a Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Epiphany2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133047 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Epiphany2016.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphany2016\" width=\"376\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>The star was not deceived <\/strong>when it called those distant ones to walk towards the God who was near to them.  <strong>The star was not deceived <\/strong>when it showed the desert path, humbler and harder.  <strong>The star was not deceived <\/strong>when it halted over the house of humble folk: there the great future was born.  <strong>Your heart was not deceived <\/strong>when it took up the path in search of the unkown.  <strong>Your heart was not deceived, <\/strong>when it did not give in to meaningless impatience.  <strong>Your heart was not deceived, <\/strong>when it knelt before the Boy.  &nbsp;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/scelte-e-impegno\/vescovi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Klaus Hemmerle<\/a>: <em>Dio Si \u00c8 Fatto Bambino <\/em>(Rome: <a href=\"http:\/\/editrice.cittanuova.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> 2007) p.11.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guided by a star, the Magi traverse a desert and stop in front of a humble child: God who became a Boy. The thoughts of Klaus Hemmerle, Bishop of Aachen (1929-1994).<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327888","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=327888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}