{"id":341442,"date":"2012-10-11T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/announcing-that-god-loves-us\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:45","slug":"announcing-that-god-loves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/announcing-that-god-loves-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing that God loves us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abWe know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/spiritualita-dellunita\/dio-amore\/\"><strong>God-Love<\/strong><\/a> is a truth of our faith, and a very timely reality. In our world today, God seems to be far off and people even reach the point of speaking of the death of God. What could be healthier and more awaited by this humanity around us &#8211; including the one that calls itself \u201cChristian,\u201d but isn\u2019t completely so \u2013 than to open her up, with the help of the Spirit, to this revelation:<strong> God is close to everyone with His love, and He ardently loves each one of us? <\/strong>  What could be more important than to tell this humanity that every circumstance speaks of this love?\u00a0 To make them understand that we should feel enveloped by this love, even when everything would make us think otherwise?  To announce to them that nothing escapes Him, who counts even the hairs of our head? \u2026  <strong>Our world needs this announcement: that God is Love, that God loves you, God loves you immensely!<\/strong>  Thousands of people have done it by now, they have announced it, they\u2019ve said it in the train, at school, at home, in the stores; whenever they had the opportunity they said: \u201cLook, remember that God loves you.\u201d  The effects were extraordinary, the people got a shock, precisely like when the apostles proclaimed: \u201cChrist is risen.\u201d \u201cWhat? Risen?\u201d  Tell these people, say it with conviction: \u201cGod is Love and God loves you immensely!\u201d This will start a revolution.\u00bb  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/chi-e-chiara\/\"><strong>Chiara Lubich<\/strong><\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/eshop_scheda.php?idContenuto=35835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dio Amore<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/eshop_index.php?idsito=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ed. Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/strong><\/a>, Roma, 2011, pagg. 86-87.  <strong>Chiara Lubich, \u201cDio Amore\u201d, Ed. Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Roma, 2000, pag. 87-88.<\/strong>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing 2,500 members of the Focolare\u2019s Parish and Diocesan Movements in 1996 at Castelgandolfo, Chiara Lubich remembered a particularly timely truth of Christian faith.<\/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-341442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341442","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=341442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}