{"id":328136,"date":"2016-04-02T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/living-the-gospel-you-did-it-to-me\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:03:35","slug":"living-the-gospel-you-did-it-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-gospel-you-did-it-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Gospel: You did it to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

A conference for mathematicians<\/strong> \u201cA couple of my colleagues also attended a conference with their small son. After supper they took turns putting him to sleep and were never able to spend an evening together. I sensed that things weren\u2019t going well between them and wondered what I could do to help. I suggested that one evening I could stay up with the boy, since he knew me quite well. The following day my colleague thanked me: Ever since the little one was born, he told me, they\u2019d never had a moment just for them, and that evening was very important.\u201d M.Z. – Poland<\/a> My neighbour is another me<\/strong> \u201cI study art at university. Shocked by the suffering of so many Syrian families, I thought of organising an art exhibit with some friends. We could use the money we earned from selling our artwork to help those families. We called the exhibit: \u2018My neighbour is another me. Break down the walls of indifference\u2019.<\/a>\u201d One of the main pieces was a wall made of tiles. Each visitor could take one tile home as a reminder that we\u2019re all connected and invited in our daily lives to do something for people who are suffering. There were a lot of problems involved in organising the exhibit. At one point I was really tired, but thinking about the suffering of the Syrians I found new energy to carry on. The art sale brought in 4000 dollars that will be donated in full to several Syrian families.\u201d J.T. – USA<\/a> The goodnight kiss<\/strong> \u201cOnce again, that night Papa had dumped all the day\u2019s stress on Mamma. Without a reply, she went to iron in the kitchen as he read in the living room. A wall had been built between them. Feeling the atmosphere growing heavier and heavier, my brothers and I went to our rooms. But I couldn\u2019t fall asleep. A sentence kept coming to my mind: \u201cWhere there is no love, put love and you\u2019ll draw out love.\u201d Overcoming my human pride, I got up and went into the kitchen. \u201cGood night, Papa,\u201d and I gave him a kiss. Then, \u201cGood night, Mamma\u201d and gave her a kiss. They looked at each other and the wall between them collapsed. I went back to bed happy.\u201d G.M. – Switzerland<\/a> \"137786330_fa036fbd02_b-a\"<\/a>One small act of love<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m a Franciscan. After giving the last hoe I had to a poor person I said to Jesus: \u201cOkay, now you take care of it!\u201d I heard on the radio that a whole party of hoes were arriving. I asked an NGO to make me one of the beneficiaries: I received 200 hoes along with machetes and sacks of seed that I distributed. Many people from the place ask me for help: Members of a Protestant sect from Kimbangisti and even a witch doctor. He invited me to his home and, offering me 5 litres of palm wine, he thanked me for all that I do for his people. All because of one small act of love. . .\u201d G.B. – Angola<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The word of life of the month reminds us that Jesus retains as done to him, whatever we do to others, even to the little ones or to those who are most marginalised.<\/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-328136","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\/328136","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=328136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}