{"id":30536,"date":"2014-03-14T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:12:52","slug":"chiara-lubich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/chiara-lubich\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Lubich, anniversary of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chiara-Lubich.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30538 alignleft\" alt=\"Chiara Lubich\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chiara-Lubich.jpeg\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>Prayers for the repose of the soul of Chiara Lubich who died on this date in 2008. Chiara was the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focolare.org\/usa\/en\"><strong>Focolare Movement<\/strong><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chiara Lubich&#8217;s the formal request to open a cause for sainthood was made on 7 December 2013. When the announcement was made\u00a0Maria Voce said, \u201cThis act invites us all to a life of greater holiness, lived day by day to contribute towards collective sanctity, that sanctity of the people so dear to Chiara\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maria Voce requested the opening of the cause of canonization of Chiara of Bishop Raffaello Martinelli, Bishop of Frascati. December 7th was also a significant date for the Focolare members as it was the\u00a0\u00a070th anniversary since the beginning of the Movement.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>The Church\u2019s tradition is to present to its faithful role models, persons who have distinguished themselves by a particular witness of faith and love for God. The current period of waiting following the death of a person is five years. Thereafter, if the opening is approved, a canonical process to verify the facts of a holy life, of heroic virtues, \u00a0and other signs needs to be studied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>12 members of the Focolare Movement are being studied for sainthood.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers for the repose of the soul of Chiara Lubich who died on this date in 2008. Chiara was the founder of the Focolare Movement. Chiara Lubich&#8217;s the formal request to open a cause for sainthood was made on 7 December 2013. When the announcement was made\u00a0Maria Voce said, \u201cThis act invites us all to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/chiara-lubich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chiara Lubich, anniversary of death<\/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":[82],"tags":[2707,2656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536"}],"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=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30540,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions\/30540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}