{"id":342268,"date":"2013-09-11T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/final-evening-in-amman\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:15","slug":"final-evening-in-amman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/final-evening-in-amman\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Evening in Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Maria Voce<\/a> and Giancarlo Faletti<\/a> have had many meetings over these past two weeks: the meeting with the Focolare community<\/a> of the Middle East, noteworthy people of various Christian Churches<\/span><\/a>, a Muslim-Christian interreligious gathering<\/a>, an audience with King Abdullah II<\/span><\/a> in which he declared the Focolare president a \u201cFriend of Jordan.\u201d Finally, to conclude the visit, there was an evening with the family both Jordanian <\/a>and Iraqi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a moment of deep sharing between the members of the Focolare in Amman and the large delegation that arrived from Iraq. The evening was enriched by sharing that revealed a profound life, often a conquest due to the suffering especially in Iraq. Father Eimad from Bassora recounted how in spite of the small number of Christians in the mostly Muslim environment, it was possible to build friendly relationships with leaders of the Muslim community, a relationship is founded on mutual appreciation and respect.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Maria Voce expressed words of gratitude to the people from Iraq: \u201cMeeting you for the first time at the airport gave me so much joy. I want to thank you, knowing all that you\u2019ve been through because of the war and also because of the painful decision you\u2019ve had to take \u2013 whether to move or to stay on in your homeland. I\u2019d like to thank you for your choice and for all that you do to support the Church and its Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omar, who is Muslim, underscored the primary importance of one\u2019s relationship with God. If you want dialogue, then it\u2019s necessary to build it on a solid foundation he said: \u201cWe must begin from ourselves. From when I\u2019ve known the Focolare, I\u2019ve begun to pray better and more. This is what has helped me to go forward in my relationships with everyone I meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Particularly touching was the testimony of Bishop Salomone Warduni, Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad: \u201cIt\u2019s such a great pleasure to be here with you. We\u2019ve seen how the Movement has grown and how it is today in Jordan and in Iraq. Without it I would never have been able to do what I\u2019ve done in the seminary nor as bishop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The description of the encounter with the King, the Princess Alia and the Prince El Hassan bin Talal was a proud and happy moment for all.<\/p>\n

\"\"Recalling Chiara Lubich<\/a>\u2019s dream, which Chiara defined as a \u201ccrazy\u201d dream \u2013 to bring the world to God in her arms \u2013 Voce concluded: Well, then, bring Iraq and Jordan to God. This is where man was born, where civilization was born. We could say that humanity began here and Chiara\u2019s dream has global dimensions, the dimensions of humanity. And what you achieve through your mutual love <\/a>will have consequences for humanity. Near to Amman is Mount Nebo where Moses stood and peered into the Promised Land. Well, now we\u2019re here to build this Promised Land together!\u201d<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Faletti also offered some final words: \u201cThese have been such beautiful days, so I urge you to guard and protect this life, but always looking beyond to the people out there. Until there will not be one person who doesn\u2019t know God\u2019s love. We are not here to dream sweet dreams. We have received, so now let us give.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Roberto Catalano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The visit of Focolare president and co-president comes to an end. Two intense weeks that, amidst many uncertainties, have given everyone joy and hope.<\/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-342268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342268","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=342268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}