{"id":328864,"date":"2017-01-21T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gen3-from-romania-god-has-a-plan-for-us\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:06:10","slug":"gen3-from-romania-god-has-a-plan-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gen3-from-romania-god-has-a-plan-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen3 from Romania: \u201cGod has a plan for us.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG-20161229-WA0000-1024x768\"<\/a>Accompanied by some of their assistants, thirteen<\/strong> Gen 3<\/a> were on their way to Focolare <\/a>town in Krizevci, north Croatia<\/a>. There was an atmosphere of serenity and great expectation during the trip. The theme of their congress would be challenging and demanding: Jesus Forsaken<\/a>. The topic of suffering and pain is key to knowing how to live in a world of young people where so many seek well-being and false happiness. It was a long drive through Hungary.<\/strong> Towards evening some of the boys dozed off. Suddenly, the sound of horns and, in the midst of thick fog, a large truck just before the frightening crash. Teia, Adelin, Delia, Eve, Bea, Iulian and the other boys were still alive, but their shock was great. \u201cThe first car stopped just after the accident,\u201d recounts one of the assistants<\/strong>. \u201cIt was an emergency vehicle. They had just finished their shift and were on their way back to the base. How could we not see God\u2019s love in that? The police were excellent: they welcomed us in the largest room they had at police headquarters until another bus came to get us. They told us we were lucky to get out alive . . . then they brought us pizza and sweets.\u201d Once we got to hospital, the boys were divided between wards.<\/strong> Bea<\/strong>: \u201cAt that moment we felt lost, we didn\u2019t understand Hungarian, we were frightened and alone. We didn\u2019t know what was happening and didn\u2019t know how to answer the doctors\u2019 questions. Some of us were comepletely isolated from the others, and alone like Jesus Forsaken. It was like meeting him and living him.\u201d Eve<\/strong>: \u201cLater on, people came and tranlsated for us. One focolarina from Romania was supposed to arrive in Hungary the previous day, but she had missed the bus. She was in a nearby city when she learned of the accident. The driver had proposed to the passengers not to make other stops and to take her directly to hospital to drop her off before helping us. She told us that understood why she had missed the bus the day before.\u201d \"IMG-20161229-WA0001-1024x768\"<\/a>Rozi<\/strong>: \u201cThe doctors told us we had to stay in hospital for a few more examinations. I began to telelphone the boys\u2019 parents. Many of them were 15 hours away from where we were. Moreover, the Gen3 were saying that they wanted to continue on to the congress. In the end we obtained permission to leave the hospital with the signature of their parents and without spending a cent.\u201d Delia: \u201cAt that point we weren\u2019t sure about continuing our journey, but we realized that such precious things always come with a cost.\u201d Some days later seven boys arrived at Mariapolis Faro.<\/strong> The experience of fear and pain, but also of intense unity among them, showed that the theme of the congress had already become something real for them. Iulian recounts<\/strong>: \u201cWe all just knew that whatever happens to us in life, it\u2019s worth it to abandon ourselves totallyto God. Jesus Forsaken unites us in an incredible way! We were allowed to live because God has a plan for us: a divine adventure awaits us.\u201d Compiled by Chiara Favotti<\/em>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of teenagers travels from Romania to Croatia. They\u2019re Gen3, the third generation of the Focolare. The accident, the encounter with suffering and with God\u2019s love.<\/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-328864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328864","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=328864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}