{"id":400665,"date":"2026-04-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=400665"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:40:10","slug":"the-cross-a-treasure-chest-of-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-cross-a-treasure-chest-of-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross, a Treasure Chest of Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#e8f6fb\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:72px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Solitude, silence, do not frighten:\u202fthey are made to protect, not to cause fear. Nevertheless, one can take advantage of such a suffering. The greatness of Christ is the cross. He was never so close to the Father and so close to the brothers as when naked, wounded, he cried out from the gallows: \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d.\u202fWith that suffering he redeemed: in that fracture he reunited all men with God.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">[\u2026]\u202fListen to it. Contemplate it, within the silence wherein God speaks. This is, in the day of life, the hour of dusk of contemplation, when the creatures gather together to assess the work that has been done and to prepare the actions of tomorrow: a tomorrow immersed in eternity. [\u2026]\u202fDetachment from the world, therefore, and attachment to God: thus not a separation from people, inasmuch as they are brothers, members of the same divine and human family.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>(Igino Giordani, Excerpts taken from \u201cCitt\u00e0 Nuova\u201d XXIII\/13 10 July, 1979, pp.32-33)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:71px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Foto: \u00a9 Nikolett Emmert by pexels.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:144px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus\u2019 death on the cross reveals a man so deeply rooted in a relationship with the Father that he is able to trust Him completely, up to the very end. And it is for this reason that Calvary becomes the precious vessel in which all of God\u2019s love for us is gathered. Igino Giordani\u2019s words invite us to make room for silence and attentive listening, so that we can begin this path of contemplation, redemption, and communion with God and with one another.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":400664,"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":[2822],"tags":[4357,3520,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-400665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritualita-2","tag-good-friday","tag-igino-giordani-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400665","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=400665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400666,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400665\/revisions\/400666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}