{"id":400677,"date":"2026-04-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=400677"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:24:30","slug":"every-day-a-holy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/every-day-a-holy-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Every day a Holy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This year, Holy Week found a special resonance in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, Wednesday of Holy Week, I was especially touched by the reading of the Passion of Jesus. I became aware \u2013 and this is so important \u2013 of the very new value suffering has in our Christian life. I felt as if I was drawn to this most sublime calling amidst the many voices that fill every day and every moment of our life. Jesus, the \u201cman of suffering\u201d: this is the climax of his vocation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 Today I feel enveloped by a wave of tenderness. It is the day of the New Commandment, of the Eucharist, of the priesthood, it\u2019s the day when we serve one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus reserved so many infinite riches for the last day of His life on earth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I wish to make every day a Holy Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus, you who have chosen us for this pathway, which is so close to your heart, help us to follow it well, every day, until the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Translation of the Italian text found in: Chiara Lubich, Diario 1964-1980, a cura di Fabio Ciardi, 2023, Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Roma, p. 324)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo \u00a9 Vesal by Pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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During Holy Week 2026, we want to offer an excerpt from Chiara Lubich\u2019s diary written on Holy Thursday, 11 April 1968. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":400676,"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":[1,2822],"tags":[4361,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-400677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato","category-spiritualita-2","tag-holy-thursday","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677","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=400677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400678,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400677\/revisions\/400678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}