{"id":29071,"date":"2013-10-29T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29071"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:29:41","slug":"blessed-chiara-badano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/blessed-chiara-badano\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Chiara Badano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luce-Badano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29072 alignleft\" alt=\"Luce Badano\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luce-Badano-216x300.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luce-Badano-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luce-Badano-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luce-Badano.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>A little known young blessed of our Church, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiaralucebadano.it\/index.php?lang=en\"><strong>Chiara &#8220;Luce&#8221; Badano<\/strong><\/a>, is gaining popularity. You may remember seeing her name among 18 people revered as saints and blesseds chosen by Pope Benedict as intercessors for the 2013 World Youth Day in Brazil. A commentator said, \u201cshe was\u00a0chosen because Luce is a model of sainthood that is simple, and not someone spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known among family and friends as Luce, she died of bone cancer in 1990 at the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Luce was a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/\"><strong>Focolare<\/strong><\/a> movement since she 9 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI declared her \u201cBlessed\u201d in 2010 he said \u201cOnly Love with a capital L gives true happiness, and that\u2019s what\u00a0Blessed\u00a0Badano\u00a0showed her family, her friends and her fellow members of the Focolare movement.\u201d\u00a0When Cardinal Angelo Amato offered Mass at which Chiara was beatified \u00a0he spoke of her as having \u201ca crystalline heart, like water from the source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiaraluce.org\"><strong>Blessed Chiara Badano<\/strong><\/a> said,\u00a0\u201cWhat a free and immense gift life is and how important it is to live every instant in the fullness of God. I feel so little and the road ahead is so arduous that I often feel overwhelmed with pain! But that\u2019s the Spouse coming to meet me. Yes, I repeat it: &#8216;If you want it Jesus, so do I.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through the intercession of Blessed Chiara Luce Badano may we live more closely with Christ crucified and may we all, including those who follow Focolare, be blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little known young blessed of our Church, Chiara &#8220;Luce&#8221; Badano, is gaining popularity. You may remember seeing her name among 18 people revered as saints and blesseds chosen by Pope Benedict as intercessors for the 2013 World Youth Day in Brazil. A commentator said, \u201cshe was\u00a0chosen because Luce is a model of sainthood that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/blessed-chiara-badano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Chiara Badano<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31916,2656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29074,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions\/29074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}