{"id":341226,"date":"2012-06-23T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/love-that-embraces-all-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:03","slug":"love-that-embraces-all-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/love-that-embraces-all-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Love That Embraces All The World!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong> Chiara Lubich<\/strong><\/a> described the Gen4 <\/a>as \u201ctiny buds\u201d on the great tree of the Focolare Movement. She gave the go-ahead to the first international Gen4 congress in 1988. This year more than 400 Gen4 arrived, unafraid of flying in an airplane and in spite of their young age (4-9 years old). They came from Argentina, Panama, Venezuela and several European countries. It was a real congress. Two entrepreneurs from the Loppiano Prima Cooperative<\/strong><\/a> explained how they are living for a \u201cnew economy\u201d and answered some questions from the Gen4. They studied the life of the early Christians, through games and quizzes. Then there was the grand \u201cA City Invaded By Love\u201d Game, with clowns, challenges, quizzes, bankers, mayors and everything else, all of them brought together by a single law, trying to \u201csee Jesus in their neighbor\u201d and understanding what the needs of such a unique city would be. The slogans of the day were being chanted in two songs that had been written for the occasion: \u201cThe person next to me is Jesus: and \u201cYou did it for me<\/em>\u201d. They sang it, acted it out in small plays and put together a musical which they presented on Friday morning to the president of the Focolare, Maria Voce<\/strong><\/a>. They also posed some questions to her and were anxious to hear what she would say. \u201cHi Emmaus, what is Heaven like, and what is Hell like?<\/em>\u201d \u201cWhy did God create the world?<\/em>\u201d \u201cWe learned about the early Christian martyrs. Should we, today, also be martyrs for Jesus?<\/em>\u201d \u201cHow did Chiara realize that Jesus is among us?<\/em>\u201d \u201cCould you explain to me what the Focolare is?<\/em>\u201d On the first day, one of the Gen4 had this to say: \u201cI\u2019m so happy inside, becuase I dreamt that Jesus came to this congress, that He was here with us, in the midst of us<\/em>.\u201d It was a dream that came true over the following days. Despite the different languages and cultures, they understood one another, they talked to one another, invented games that they could play together and exchanged gifts. During the Mass on the last day, they offered their acts of love to Jesus: a hundred colourful small papers, folded inside a small basket on the stage. There were also baskets filled with the things they had brought to put in common with the poor \u2013 the Gospel come to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love that is open and reaching out to everyone is what the Gen4, the children of the Focolare Movement, have experienced at their annual congress at Castel Gandolfo, Italy (7-10 June 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-341226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341226","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}