{"id":15014,"date":"2019-04-15T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/croazia-esercizi-spirituali-e-sessione-del-definitorio-generale\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:19:05","slug":"croazia-esercizi-spirituali-e-sessione-del-definitorio-generale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/croazia-esercizi-spirituali-e-sessione-del-definitorio-generale\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia: General Definitory Session and Spiritual Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 1-12, 2019, the General Definitory, led by the Minister General, Friar Marco TASCA, met for its fiftieth session and for a spiritual retreat. The events took place at the Marian Shrine of Vepric in Makarska, Croatia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first week was dedicated to the retreat, guided by the meditations and exhortations of Friar Jude WINKLER, the Assistant General for the Conventual Franciscan Federation (CFF).<br \/>\nAt the end of the retreat, the Minister General and the Definitors visited some sites and shrines in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they were fraternally and cordially welcomed by the Friars Minor of the Province of Mostar.<br \/>\nOn Sunday April 7, there was a pilgrimage to \u0160ibenik, to the National Shrine of St. Nicholas Tavili\u0107 who once lived in our friary and was the first Saint canonized in Croatia. The friars at our St. Francis of Assisi community celebrated Mass with the Definitors and also provided meals. In the afternoon, the Defintors visited the cathedral, where they were welcomed by the Most Reverend Tomislav ROGI\u0106, Bishop of \u0160ibenik, Croatia.<br \/>\nThe following day, they visited the city of Split where they met with the Most Reverend Marin Bari\u0161i\u0107, Archbishop of Split-Makarska, Croatia. After celebrating Mass at our St. Francis of Assisi friary, the Definitors went on to visit the church, eat lunch and enjoy some fraternal time together.<br \/>\nReturning to Vepric, the Definitors spent the rest of the second week meeting for their fiftieth session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Miljenko HONTI\u0106, Assistant General for the CEF<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1-12, 2019, the General Definitory, led by the Minister General, Friar Marco TASCA, met for its fiftieth session and for a spiritual retreat. The events took place at the Marian Shrine of Vepric in Makarska, Croatia. The first week was dedicated to the retreat, guided by the meditations and exhortations of Friar Jude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,148],"tags":[201,1622,1629,428,1135],"class_list":["post-15014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general-secretariat","category-news","tag-croatia","tag-definitorio-en","tag-definitory","tag-minister-general","tag-spiritual-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014","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=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}