{"id":368996,"date":"2024-12-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=368996"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:56:59","slug":"a-culture-of-peace-for-the-unity-of-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-culture-of-peace-for-the-unity-of-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"A culture of peace for the unity of peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A culture of peace for the unity of peoples\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBNIdEm9BnE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;We must be convinced that for the civilization of love to become a reality, we have to storm the world with a current of love. Otherwise, everything will remain like a dream, destined to die. <br>&#8230; Love! Teaching to love! The person who truly knows how to love, is the person who knows that he or she is sincerely loved. This is a human observation, but it is no less valid in the supernatural field. To know that we are loved! By whom? By the One who is Love. We must open the eyes of as many brothers and sisters as possible so that they might see and discover the treasure they possess, often without realizing it. They are not alone on this earth. There is Love. They have a Father who does not abandon his sons and daughters to their own destiny. He wants to accompany them, watch over them, help them. He is a Father who does not load burdens that are too heavy onto others\u2019 shoulders. He is the first to carry them. In our case, he does not leave the renewal of society only to human initiative. But He is the first to be concerned with it. People should know this and turn to him, aware of the fact that nothing is impossible for him. We must believe, therefore, that we are loved by God so that we can throw ourselves with greater faith into the adventure of love, and work together with him for a New Humanity. <br>Then we must focus our interests on the human person and share with them misfortunes and successes, spiritual goods and material goods. And, to love well, we must not see the difficulties, corruption and sufferings of the world merely as social evils to be resolved. Rather, we must recognize in these the countenance of Christ, who did not disdain to hide himself beneath all human poverty. <br>Because of him \u2013 especially for those of us who are Christian \u2013 our greatest energies are channeled for the good of others. But since the love we are talking about is certainly not only philanthropy, or friendship or purely human solidarity, but is primarily a gift from Above, we must place ourselves in the best possible attitude to receive it, by nourishing ourselves on and living on the Word of God. &#8230; <br> Every person in their large or small world of daily activities \u2013 in the family, office, factory, trade union, immersed as they may be in local and general problems, in public institutions, all the way to the United Nations \u2013 can truly be a builder of peace, a witness to love, an instrument of unity.               <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><br><em>Photo: \u00a9 Genfest 2024 &#8211; CSC Audiovisivi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must believe, therefore, that we are loved by God so that we can throw ourselves with greater faith into the adventure of love and work together with him for a New Humanity.\u201d This was affirmed by Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement, during an International Conference at Castel Gandolfo (Rome \u2013 Italy) on the 11th of June 1988. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":368972,"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":[2903,2826,2822],"tags":[559,3608,912,3349,1290,3396,913,3196],"class_list":["post-368996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiara-lubich-3","category-cultura-2","category-spiritualita-2","tag-nuova-umanita","tag-nuova-umanita-en","tag-notifiche","tag-notifiche-en","tag-peace","tag-peace-en","tag-ppg","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368996","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=368996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}