{"id":328756,"date":"2016-11-27T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/maria-voce-to-the-young-people-of-the-focolare-movement\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:47","slug":"maria-voce-to-the-young-people-of-the-focolare-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/maria-voce-to-the-young-people-of-the-focolare-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Voce to the young people of the Focolare Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"emmaus<\/a>\u201cI have seen how seriously you have been preparing for this moment and this makes me very happy indeed<\/strong>, and gives me great peace for the Movement\u2019s future, because I have seen that you have taken Chiara (Lubich<\/a>\u2019s) legacy seriously which is handed on to the second generation in the Movement \u2026 with the same zeal” as at the start of the Movement. In response to various questions<\/strong> that the young people asked her, on Jesus forsaken<\/a>, the point of the spirituality of unity<\/a> which has been chosen to go into depth with this year, Maria Voce<\/a> explained: \u201cGod sent his Son to re-build these bonds, [of unity between God and humankind and among all people] so to do something great.\u201d In order to do this \u201cJesus did not choose to come with an armada \u2026 but he chose a means that maybe is not understood first off; he chose the means of the cross. The means of the cross which for Jesus meant loving right to the end, the greatest love of all, taking on himself all of humanity\u2019s pain, all sufferings, all humiliations, purely out of love! And in the moment he did it, Jesus made a new creation, he created a new unity, he redeemed humanity, so he re-established the unity that humankind had lost with God and people had lost among themselves; it was the greatest of works.\u201d \u201cSo in that moment Jesus forsaken is truly the victorious King!<\/strong> He is not only someone who is suffering. Yes, suffering was the means that He chose, but it was because through that suffering he showed the greatest love; because he bore witness before people as to how much the Father loved them and how much he was ready to suffer out of love for the Father and love for them. Now Jesus forsaken comes to us and says the same thing: \u201cDo you want to bear witness to God\u2019s love in front of the whole world, and all people? Then use the same means as I did. Make yourself one with them right to the end, take on the sufferings, pain, doubts and anguish that people feel,\u201d creating \u201cbonds which will make the human family a real family of God\u2019s children, bonded with one another and with the Father.\u201d Concerning questions about their future,<\/strong> Maria Voce answered: Be generous with God! If you truly feel that God is calling you somehow, that he is speaking in the depths of your heart, don\u2019t pay attention to anything else, pay attention only to this voice and say yes \u2026 then He will be the one to take you where he wants you to be\u201d, to fulfil God\u2019s \u201cplan of love for each one that will give you the greatest happiness. I wish you this with all my heart!\u201d Gustavo Clari\u00e1 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/192601570<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extracts from a message from the Focolare President to the 1,100 Gen from all over the world who met at Castel Gandolfo near Rome from 17th-20th November, on the 50th anniversary of the Gen Movement.<\/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-328756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328756","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=328756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}