{"id":13721,"date":"2019-02-18T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/libano-ritiro-della-famiglia-francescana\/"},"modified":"2019-02-23T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T08:00:31","slug":"libano-ritiro-della-famiglia-francescana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/libano-ritiro-della-famiglia-francescana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: Franciscan Family Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Saturday, February 16, 2019, friars and sisters of the nine Franciscan families of Lebanon gathered together for a day of spiritual retreat. This took place within the context of our shared yearly calendar and in preparation for Lent. The retreat was held at the Poor Clares\u2019 Unity monastery in Yarze, Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than fifty-five friars and sisters, along with various young people in formation, met around the theme of fraternal life.<br \/>\nThe participating friars from our Conventual family were Friars Roger KOUYOUMDJI, Iosif Florin PETRILA, Felician TAMA\u015e and Khalil EL-KHOURY.<br \/>\nIt was a time of prayer and Eucharistic adoration. Friar Mikhael MEGHAMES, OFM Cap., gave a beautiful and truthful lecture about fraternal life within our Franciscan spirituality. The day included a lively Mass and a packed lunch with sandwiches and drinks.<br \/>\nAs Brother Francis wrote in his Testament (Test 14): \u201cthe Lord gave me brothers\u201d. Thus, may initiatives such as this rekindle in us the fire to follow the Lord Jesus, according to the example and life of the Poverello, in our various fraternities in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Roger KOUYOUMDJI,<br \/>\nVicar Custos of the Provincial Custody of the Orient and the Holy Land<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 16, 2019, friars and sisters of the nine Franciscan families of Lebanon gathered together for a day of spiritual retreat. This took place within the context of our shared yearly calendar and in preparation for Lent. The retreat was held at the Poor Clares\u2019 Unity monastery in Yarze, Lebanon. More than fifty-five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,117,138,148],"tags":[385,555,554,1135],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-fimp-en","category-franciscan-family","category-news","tag-lebanon","tag-orient-and-the-holy-land","tag-oriente-e-terra-santa-en","tag-spiritual-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}