{"id":31384,"date":"2021-01-27T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/paraguay-professioni-semplici\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:54:21","slug":"paraguay-professioni-semplici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/paraguay-professioni-semplici\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay: Simple Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to various rankings, Paraguay is listed as one of the countries in the world where people consider themselves the happiest. On Sunday, January 24, 2021, something occurred that supported and even boosted that \u201chappiness index.\u201d The event in question was the profession of religious vows by some Conventual confreres.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On that day, four of our friars made their temporary vows at the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Aregu\u00e1, Paraguay. One of them, Friar Carlos David JARA VERA, finished his novitiate a few days ago and professed his vows for the first time. The other three, Friars Erit Roberto PERALTA MERCADO; Tom\u00e1s Valerio ZEBALLO CABALLERO; and Lucas Javier OVELAR HERMOSILLA, renewed their simple profession.<br \/>\nThe friars made their profession during the closing Mass of the <em>15<sup>th<\/sup> Meeting of the Youth of Divine Mercy<\/em>. The liturgy was presided over by Friar Marek WILK, the Provincial Delegate in Paraguay. About two hundred young people participated in the meeting, which was partly virtual &#8211; as is often the case these days &#8211; and partly in person. The patron for the meeting was Carlo ACUTIS, who was recently declared Blessed. The meeting\u2019s slogan used his words: <em>&#8220;The Eucharist is the highway to heaven!&#8221;<\/em> This theme fit perfectly with the main idea of the pastoral year in Paraguay: <em>\u201cHe was made known to them in the breaking of the bread\u201d<\/em> (cf. Lk 24:35).<br \/>\nWe thank God for these new confreres who have accepted the challenge to live in the Franciscan spirit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Tadeusz POBIEDZI\u0143SKI<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to various rankings, Paraguay is listed as one of the countries in the world where people consider themselves the happiest. On Sunday, January 24, 2021, something occurred that supported and even boosted that \u201chappiness index.\u201d The event in question was the profession of religious vows by some Conventual confreres. On that day, four of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[510,1224],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-paraguay-en","tag-temporary-profession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","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=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}