{"id":328898,"date":"2017-02-07T04:07:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-word-the-new-humanity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:06:15","slug":"the-word-the-new-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-word-the-new-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word & the New Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"holding-hands-752878_960_720\"Head of the Class<\/strong> Ever since I heard such new things about God-Love I can\u2019t be disturbing at school, doodling at my desk. The teacher even noticed the change in me and appointed me head of the class. Now it\u2019s difficult for me to point out my classmates bad conduct, because I try to see Jesus in them and feel bad when they are punished. One day, since I didn\u2019t, another student went to report three of us. To avoid their punishment, I convinced the teacher to let them clean the classroom, and after class I went to help them. Since then, little by little, the atmosphere in class is beginning to improve.\u00a0 (Victoria \u2013 Uganda<\/a>) Fundraising<\/strong> When I learned that the father of a large poor family needed emergency surgery and didn\u2019t have the money for the operation, some friends and I began a fundraiser with our colleagues at work. When we had the money, I accompanied the father to hospital and paid for the medical treatment. The operation went well. I don\u2019t know who was happier, the family or us! I think that small gestures such as these also help contribute to peace. ( N. Y.- Jordan<\/a>) In the airport<\/strong> At the baggage control there was a passenger in front of me who was quite upset because he had to leave behind a jar of jam. \u201cWell, at least don\u2019t throw it out, because it\u2019s special!\u201d When I got through baggage control that same person told me that the jam had been made by his mother for her grandchildren. \u201cAll her love is in those bottles,\u201d he added. After a silent pause: \u201cWhy does the world have to be goverened by fear? Yes, I understand, with all that\u2019s going on . . . but even the social infrastructure itself instills fear and mistrust. Where has the beauty gone in life?\u201d I didn\u2019t have answers, only the same questions. Meanwhile, a little girl was smiling as she passed in front of us in a wheelchair. We looked at her and that happy little face completely silenced us. All you need is a smile and even an aiport gets lit up. (C. M. \u2013 Austria<\/a>) Praying together<\/strong> I was in the oncology department for examinations and treatment. It was an opportunity to love others with small concrete gestures and sharing in their suffering. That day my roomate \u2013 a stocky farmer of rude appearance \u2013 was about to undergo chemo. Just then he received news from the doctor and nurse that his son had died and the man\u2019s therapy was postponed so that he could return home. I watched as his body bent beneath the tremendous shock. When we were alone and he was preparing his bag and weeping, I gathered my courage and with\u00a0 gentleness and respect asked him if he ever prayed. When he said yes, I invited him to pray the Our Father together for his son. It struck me as I watched that 73 year-old man join his hands and pray. And I thanked God that I dared to ask him to pray together.\u00a0\u00a0 (Pablo \u2013 Philippines<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month\u2019s Scripture invites us to create new relationships in the places we live and work, rather than being resigned to evils that are greater than us and can make us grow indifferent.<\/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-328898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328898","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=328898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}