{"id":18437,"date":"2024-05-02T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/?p=18437"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:21:12","slug":"the-power-of-prayer-a-dream-and-a-hunger-fulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/the-power-of-prayer-a-dream-and-a-hunger-fulfilled\/","title":{"rendered":"Il potere della preghiera: un sogno e una fame soddisfatti"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-image align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955-560x400.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Rohloff-Ivan-near-Toshkent-early-1955-600x429.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h6>+Frate Ivan Rohloff, OFMConv. vicino a Tashkent, l&#039;Uzbekistan, trascorre un momento con una Suora Missionaria della Carit\u00e0 (Suore di Madre Teresa). Foto per gentile concessione dell&#039;Archivio Provinciale.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"w-image align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-1024x431.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-1024x431.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-18x8.png 18w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-150x63.png 150w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer-600x253.png 600w, https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/power-of-prayer.png 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4>Un sogno e una fame soddisfatti<\/h4>\n<p>Di fra Bob Roddy, OFMConv.<\/p>\n<p>Ho avuto il privilegio di ascoltare il nostro defunto frate Ivan Rohloff tenere un&#039;omelia nel 2008 in cui condivideva la seguente storia del suo periodo come missionario in Uzbekistan.<br \/>\nQuando questo paese dell\u2019Asia centrale ottenne l\u2019indipendenza dalla Russia all\u2019inizio degli anni \u201990, frate Ivan colse al volo l\u2019opportunit\u00e0 di andarci e servire come parroco di una parrocchia a Tashkent. Un giorno, dopo la messa, un uomo si avvicin\u00f2 a Ivan e gli disse che una donna molto anziana era prossima alla morte e che desiderava vedere un prete pi\u00f9 di ogni altra cosa prima di morire. Ben presto frate Ivan arriv\u00f2 nel suo appartamento.<\/p>\n<p>Frate Ivan ascolt\u00f2 la confessione della donna, la unse e le diede la Santa Comunione. La donna raccont\u00f2 a frate Ivan quanto segue: \u201cPadre, ero molto giovane quando i soldati vennero e uccisero il nostro prete e profanarono la nostra chiesa. Dovevamo nascondere la nostra fede o affrontare una morte certa. Ricordo solo una preghiera, il \u201cPadre nostro\u201d, e ho detto un Padre nostro ogni giorno della mia vita nella speranza che prima di morire avrei potuto vedere un sacerdote e ricevere la Santa Comunione. Oggi la mia preghiera \u00e8 stata esaudita e ora posso rivolgermi a Dio in pace.&#039;<\/p>\n<p>Possa tutti noi trarre ispirazione e speranza dall&#039;esempio di questa donna fedele.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_center\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/prayer-requests\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Fai una richiesta di preghiera o condividi una storia su una preghiera esaudita cliccando qui.<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"+Friar Ivan Rohloff, OFM Conv. near Tashkent, Uzbekistan takes a moment with a Missionary Sister of Charity (Sisters of Mother Teresa). Photo courtesy of Province Archives. A Dream and a Hunger Fulfilled By friar Bob Roddy, OFM Conv. I had the privilege of listening to our late friar Ivan Rohloff deliver a homily in 2008...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,126],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-summer-newsletter-one-body","category-the-power-of-prayer","tag-friar-bob-roddy"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-28 20:53:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18442,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions\/18442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}