{"id":65516,"date":"2024-03-25T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/colombia-ordinazione-sacerdotale\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:15:10","slug":"colombia-ordinazione-sacerdotale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/colombia-ordinazione-sacerdotale\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: Priestly Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On March 16, 2024, Friar Leonardo Jos\u00e9 R\u00cdOS MADERA, a member of the Provincial Custody of St. Francis of Assisi in Colombia, was ordained to the priesthood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ordination took place at Friar Leonardo\u2019s home parish of Santa Clara de As\u00ecs in Corozal, Sucre Department, Colombia. The Most Reverend Jos\u00e9 CLAVIJO M\u00c9NDEZ, Bishop of Sincelejo, Colombia, presided.<br \/>\nThe ceremony was attended by the Provincial Custos, Friar Sidifredo de la Cruz CHAPARRO GUALDR\u00d3N; all the Custodial Definitors; other friars; diocesan priests; and men and women religious. Also present were friends, relatives, and family members of the newly ordained priest, who came from around the country to attend. On March 17, Friar Leonardo celebrated his first Mass at the same parish church.<br \/>\nIt is with great joy that the Church and the Order welcomes the gift of priestly ministry that the Lord has given to our confrere. Following the example of Jesus Christ, the supreme Good Shepherd, may Friar Leonardo be a docile and open shepherd, serving Christ through his Conventual Franciscan charism, making himself available to God\u2019s people and loving them and bearing true, incarnational witness of the Holy Gospel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar David TABARES V\u00c9LEZ<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 2024, Friar Leonardo Jos\u00e9 R\u00cdOS MADERA, a member of the Provincial Custody of St. Francis of Assisi in Colombia, was ordained to the priesthood. The ordination took place at Friar Leonardo\u2019s home parish of Santa Clara de As\u00ecs in Corozal, Sucre Department, Colombia. The Most Reverend Jos\u00e9 CLAVIJO M\u00c9NDEZ, Bishop of Sincelejo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[1134,1147],"class_list":["post-65516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-colombia-en","tag-priestly-ordination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65516","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=65516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}