{"id":32755,"date":"2015-10-29T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32755"},"modified":"2015-10-30T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:03:41","slug":"chiara-luce-badano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/chiara-luce-badano\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Luce Badano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Luce-Badano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32756 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Luce-Badano-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Luce Badano\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Luce-Badano-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Luce-Badano.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I offer everything, my failures, my pains and joys to Him, starting again every time the Cross makes me feel all its weight. The important thing is to do God\u2019s<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0will. I might have had plans about myself but God came up with this. The sickness came to me at the right time&#8230; [and] now I feel like I am wrapped into a wonderful design that is slowly unfolding itself to me.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A member of the Focolare ecclesial movement, she wrote to Chiara Lubich, the founder of the movement: \u201cI\u2019ve rediscovered the Gospel in a new light. Now I want this book to be the sole purpose of my life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">(Blessed Chiara Badano, who died on October 7, 1990 at the age of 18 after a painful struggle with osteosarcoma. She was beatified in 2010; her feast day is today.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I offer everything, my failures, my pains and joys to Him, starting again every time the Cross makes me feel all its weight. The important thing is to do God\u2019s\u00a0will. I might have had plans about myself but God came up with this. The sickness came to me at the right time&#8230; [and] now I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/chiara-luce-badano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chiara Luce 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\/32755"}],"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=32755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32759,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions\/32759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}