{"id":64817,"date":"2024-03-01T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/brasile-ritiro-spirituale-custodiale\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:05:12","slug":"brasile-ritiro-spirituale-custodiale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/brasile-ritiro-spirituale-custodiale\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Custodial Spiritual Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On February 19-23, 2024, the Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil conducted a spiritual retreat for its friars. The event took place at the Casa Cordimariana in Caucaia, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The participants reflected together on the path toward conversion and the missionary spirituality that underlies the life of the Friar Minor. They also reflected on certain Marian and Franciscan values, particularly, the missionary values embodied by the Virgin Mary and by St. Francis, who urges us to reach out to others.<br \/>\n\u201cA friar\u2019s vocation includes dedicating himself to the mission, in accordance with the example set by Mary,\u201d said Friar Piotr STANIS\u0141AWCZYK, one of the retreat leaders. This topic carried a profound spiritual message, in that it connected with the essence of one\u2019s religious vocation, because all consecrated life, under the action of the Holy Spirit, is missionary.<br \/>\nNext, Friar Dario MAZUREK gave a reflection on the call to live one\u2019s religious vocation. He encouraged the friars to fully involve themselves with the people and become one spiritual body with them. In keeping with Mary\u2019s example of service, Friar Dario also spoke about the Franciscan way of serving: \u201cClose to God and close to people.\u201d It is about forming disciples to become missionaries, and later, formators of disciples themselves.<br \/>\nDuring the retreat, the friars thanked God for the ten years that have passed since their Jurisdiction was canonically erected as a Custody. They gave thanks for the gift of each brother\u2019s life, vocation and ministry, and for the virtues shared during the retreat.<br \/>\nThe retreat was a grace from God, because it gave the friars a special time to meet, pray, meditate and rejoice together.<br \/>\nLikewise, a happy event took place on the evening of February 23, when Friars Henrique SANTOS DE LIMA and Lucas DOS SANTOS SILVA were ordained to the diaconate. They will help and serve God\u2019s people, in obedience to bishops and priests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Henrique SANTOS DE LIMA<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 19-23, 2024, the Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil conducted a spiritual retreat for its friars. The event took place at the Casa Cordimariana in Caucaia, Brazil. The participants reflected together on the path toward conversion and the missionary spirituality that underlies the life of the Friar Minor. They also reflected on certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[1141,1135],"class_list":["post-64817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-brazil-sb","tag-spiritual-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64817","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=64817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}