{"id":339550,"date":"2013-11-22T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/english-like-the-sunshine\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:01:57","slug":"english-like-the-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/english-like-the-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Like the Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a title=\"Like the Sunshine\" href=\"http:\/\/newcity.co.uk\/Catalogue\/Christian-Witness\/Like-the-Sunshine\/prod_330.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96608 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lieta2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Lieta (Blanca) Beto\u00f1o (1951 -2002) is considered a pioneer of the Focolare Movement in Ireland. As a twenty year old, she wrote &#8220;<em>I only want to give <\/em><em>joy to others&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; a quality confirmed by the name by which she then became known &#8211; Lieta &#8211; meaning happy or joyful. <em>&#8220;I live so as to be a cause of joy for the people I meet,&#8221; <\/em>she wrote years later, just weeks before her death.<\/div>\n<div>Lieta said a radical, definitive &#8216;yes&#8217; to God as a teenager which never wavered even in the face of great suffering. A divine adventure brought her from Argentina to Ireland, where she lived for thirty years, sowing love, peace and joy among the people she met. This is her story.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Author: Susan Gately<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Like the Sunshine\" href=\"http:\/\/newcity.co.uk\/Catalogue\/Christian-Witness\/Like-the-Sunshine\/prod_330.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Available from New City Press (UK)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieta Beto\u00f1o at the dawn of Focolare in Ireland. By Susan Gately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[2826],"tags":[2815],"class_list":["post-339550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura-2","tag-novita-editoriali-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339550","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}