{"id":71434,"date":"2024-08-28T15:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/lourdes-capitolo-delle-famiglie\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:36:24","slug":"lourdes-capitolo-delle-famiglie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/lourdes-capitolo-delle-famiglie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes: Chapter of Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During the week of July 3 to 10, 2024, the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in France-Belgium hosted a gathering of families in Lourdes that was open to all. Preparations for this year\u2019s Chapter of Families took more than two years, and culminated in this event, which was supported by 160 volunteers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly nine hundred people from the regions near our friaries, and even further away, were able to experience the joy of Lourdes and the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Divided into different age groups, the children and young people followed one program of activities that was designed especially for them, while the adults participated in formation sessions and workshops.<br \/>\nThe theme of the gathering was: \u201cWith Joy You Will Draw Water from the Fountains of Salvation\u201d (Is 12:3). Each day, these \u201cfountains\u201d were explored in depth: the Church, baptism, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, fraternity, and the Word of God.<br \/>\nBeing in Lourdes allowed everyone to live according to the rhythms of the Shrine, with Eucharistic and Marian processions and Masses in the grotto. At the same time, we continued to make our presence known in this shrine city thanks to an exhibition dedicated to St. Maximilian M. Kolbe.<br \/>\nInspired by the joy of this warm and fraternal gathering, and by the enthusiasm of the participants, we are already preparing for the next Chapter of Families, which will be held July 24-31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jean Fran\u00e7ois M. AUCLAIR<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oM71tvKRGXs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALLONS \u00c0 LA SOURCE \u2600\ufe0f - Chapitre Marial Franciscain 2024\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oM71tvKRGXs?start=16&#038;wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the week of July 3 to 10, 2024, the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in France-Belgium hosted a gathering of families in Lourdes that was open to all. Preparations for this year\u2019s Chapter of Families took more than two years, and culminated in this event, which was supported by 160 volunteers. Nearly nine hundred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,117,148],"tags":[1675],"class_list":["post-71434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-fimp-en","category-news","tag-france-belgium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434","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=71434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}