{"id":38473,"date":"2021-09-22T19:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/venezuela-nuovo-anno-formativo-del-post-noviziato\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T19:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:23:32","slug":"venezuela-nuovo-anno-formativo-del-post-noviziato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/venezuela-nuovo-anno-formativo-del-post-noviziato\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Post-novitiate Formation Program Begins New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On September 20, 2021, a Mass was celebrated to begin a new year for the post-novitiate formation program of the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela. The Mass was presided over by the Most Reverend Luis Enrique ROJAS RU\u00cdZ, Auxiliary Bishop of M\u00e9rida, Venezuela.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mass took place in the San Antonio de Padua Friary, located in the &#8220;Las Carmelitas&#8221; sector at kilometer 18 on Via Jaj\u00ed in the State of M\u00e9rida. The compound is owned by the Order of Discalced Carmelites, but has been loaned to the Conventual Franciscan Custody for ten years, through an <em>ad usum<\/em> agreement, signed in July of 2021, between the Provincial Delegate of the Carmelite Fathers, Friar Crist\u00f3bal DOM\u00cdNGUEZ and the Provincial Custos Friar Franklin A. DUR\u00c1N ZAMBRANO, OFM Conv. It should be mentioned that the request for canonical erection of the friary for the Custodial post-novitiate program is currently awaiting approval.<br \/>\nBishop ROJAS RU\u00cdZ spoke on behalf of His Eminence, Baltazar Cardinal Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of M\u00e9rida and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Caracas. He expressed the cardinal\u2019s deep gratitude for beginning a new Conventual Franciscan presence in his Archdiocesan Church. He stressed that religious life in M\u00e9rida has produced abundant spiritual fruits. &#8220;I trust that the Conventual Franciscans, with their witness of life and their pastoral ministry, will also produce many fruits in our ecclesial community, so I hope that their presence among us will last for many years to come,&#8221; said Bishop ROJAS RU\u00cdZ. He concluded his homily by offering to be present to his confreres and to guide them as their pastor, brother and friend.<br \/>\nThe others attending the ceremony included the Provincial Custos, Friar Franklin, some friars from the Sant\u00edsima Trinidad Friary in Pueblo Llano and Beata Virgen Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora Friary in Barinas, as well as the Pastor of the church of Montalb\u00e1n in Ejido, Father Railli GUERRERO. Father Nelson COLMENARES was also present, along with Father Ricardo VIELMA, and the parishioners of the Carmelite ecclesial community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Juan Gregorio MART\u00cdNEZ CANEL\u00d3N, Custodial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 2021, a Mass was celebrated to begin a new year for the post-novitiate formation program of the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela. The Mass was presided over by the Most Reverend Luis Enrique ROJAS RU\u00cdZ, Auxiliary Bishop of M\u00e9rida, Venezuela. The Mass took place in the San Antonio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[2079,973],"class_list":["post-38473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-post-novices","tag-venezuela-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473","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=38473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}