{"id":394170,"date":"2026-01-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=394170"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:00:04","slug":"living-the-gospel-credible-witnesses-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-gospel-credible-witnesses-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Gospel: credible witnesses of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The love of a family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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One Friday, Mois\u00e9s, a migrant, arrived on the recommendation of another Venezuelan young man who was living in the same shelter and had told him to come to us, that we could help him. Mois\u00e9s had arrived from Colombia a few weeks before Christmas and had only three changes of clothes, typically Caribbean, which he had brought with him on the journey. He was cold. Thanks be to God, he soon found work in a restaurant, washing dishes and helping in the kitchen. It was only a few days a week, but he receives lunch and dinner. <\/p>\n\n

So we gave him winter clothes and a blanket, because he was sleeping on the floor on a thin mattress lent to him by the landlord, a man who also kindly agreed that he could pay the rent when he received his first pay check. He was truly fortunate, because shortly after arriving he had already found a job, a room and a very generous landlord. Not all migrants have the same luck. He began to cry when he saw what we were giving him and \u201cthe love of a family<\/em>\u201d (as he described it) that he was receiving. <\/p>\n\n

He is a young professional, a commercial accountant. We prayed and asked God that in the future he may be able to practise his profession. <\/p>\n\n

(S.R. – Peru) <\/p>\n\n

True wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

My relationship with my brother-in-law had always been difficult. First there were debts from a failed business venture, managed with inexperience and little prudence; then serious health problems that required costly treatments and operations and each time called for our intervention to find the necessary money for him at the cost of mortgaging the house and using the funds we had set aside for our two children\u2019s education. It was not easy to go beyond the human limits in dealing with this relative, but seeing the state he was in, all that came to mind was that Jesus Forsaken whom my husband and I wanted to love. Perhaps no one would have blamed us if we had not continued to pay for the mistakes of another, yet, as Christians, we felt called to follow a different logic. When I spoke about it with my husband, he mentioned an account he had opened at the bank for emergencies: even though we would lose the interest, he would make it available to his brother. Immediately afterwards we felt more at peace and more united with each other. This is our true wealth. <\/p>\n\n

(C. \u2013 South Korea)<\/p>\n\n

compiled by Maria Grazia Berretta<\/em><\/p>\n\n

(from Il Vangelo del Giorno, Citt\u00e0 Nuova, year XII \u2013 no. 1, January\u2013February 2026)<\/p>\n\n

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Photo: \u00a9 Taylor Nicole – Unsplash \/ \u00a9 Silvano Ruggero<\/p>\n\n

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In his Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul wrote, \u201cOne body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling.\u201d (Eph. 4:4) A true admonition that makes the key to being concrete witnesses of Christ\u2019s love explicit: unity lived together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":394169,"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":[3286,3308],"tags":[3349,3196],"class_list":["post-394170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","category-vite-vissute-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394170","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=394170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394176,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394170\/revisions\/394176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}