{"id":328788,"date":"2016-12-16T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/living-the-gospel-the-childrens-example\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:55","slug":"living-the-gospel-the-childrens-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-gospel-the-childrens-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Gospel: the children\u2019s example"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonia is from<\/strong> Slovacchia<\/a>; she\u2019s five and goes to nursery school. One day she told her mom that she had found a friend in school. \u201cAnd what\u2019s her name?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know, she doesn\u2019t speak. I approached her since I saw she was always alone and nobody wanted to play with her.\u201d Sonia\u2019s mom usually fetches her for lunch. But the teacher said: \u201cLet her stay! She helps us with a gypsy girl who at first did not speak at all and now, thanks to her, has started to talk and cooperate with the others.\u201d When she returned home her mother asked: \u201cDid your friend say something to you?\u201d \u201cNo, but she smiles when I tell her I like her.\u201d Her mother remained silent. And the child said: \u201cYou know, love warms up each one of us.\u201d \"gen<\/strong>From <\/strong>Cameroon <\/a>Kevin wrote<\/strong>: \u00abOne day in school during the break I asked one of my schoolmates if he had anything to eat. I was hungry and had nothing. He refused. The day after, I brought a piece of bread and when he came to ask me, I in turn refused. The next day, upon throwing the love dice<\/a> it said: “Love your enemies.<\/em>” I thought of that classmate. In school I tried to speak to him but he didn\u2019t answer. So I sat in front of the house, waiting for him and when he came by, I called out to him, went up to him and when I asked why I shouldn\u2019t speak to him anymore, he answered: \u201cYou refused to share with me the bread you had.<\/em>\u201d \u00a0I immediately said, \u201cLet\u2019s make up!”and handed him some guava fruit I had with me. And so we started to talk and became friends again.\u00bb \"genFrom <\/strong>Italy<\/a>, Marco recounts<\/strong>: \u00abOne day at the nursery, the children made fun of me because I\u2019m fat. I was sorry they did that and sometimes I cried. So I went to the Nun and instead of accusing them I told her of my sufferings. I understood that I had to forgive them and did so, because a Gen4<\/a> is one who, like Jesus, forgives and loves all.\u00bb Carmen lives in a slum at the outskirts of <\/strong>Mexico City<\/a>. Often in the evening her uncles returns home drunk. Carmen is scared and hides herself. \u00abBut the other evening I didn\u2019t hide \u2013 she says \u2013 I waited for him and helped him enter. I wasn\u2019t scared because I knew that Our Lady takes care of me.\u00bb E Bartek, from<\/strong> Poland<\/a>: \u00abAt the children\u2019s party I received a gift from Teacher Ela, a chocolate bar and a lollipop. In my class there a girl called Asia, whom nobody likes. I remembered that in the morning upon throwing the dice, it said: “Love your enemies<\/em>” and so I gave Asia the lollipop and half of the chocolate. She was surprised and thanked me, and then left. Now we have become big friends.\u00bb \u00abIn the centre of Naples <\/strong>(I<\/a>taly), the \u201cBaby Jesus\u201d we make and offer to people is really selling quickly and many gather around the stand if only to say that they wish to join the initiative. A teacher, an agnostic, who has many problems, held Baby Jesus in her hands and looked at it: \u201cThis will be my Christmas!<\/em>\u201d A child ran home, emptied out his piggy bank and came with all his coins to buy his own Baby Jesus.\u00bb By the Gen4 Centres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Christmas approaches, the Gen4 children of the Focolare worldwide teach us how to put the Gospel into practice.<\/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-328788","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\/328788","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=328788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}