{"id":89716,"date":"2025-10-27T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/portogallo-tau-day-giovani-francescani-in-cammino-con-speranza\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:57:56","slug":"portogallo-tau-day-giovani-francescani-in-cammino-con-speranza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/portogallo-tau-day-giovani-francescani-in-cammino-con-speranza\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal: Tau Day \u2013 Young Franciscans Walking with Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On October 25, 2025, the Provincial Delegation in Portugal celebrated \u201cTau Day,\u201d an annual gathering of young people associated with our Conventual Franciscan Delegation, to mark the beginning of the new pastoral year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event took place in the small village of Buleiros, near Fatima. Some sixty young people from various communities participated. The theme, <em>\u201cFrom Rome to Fatima, Mary, Star of Hope,\u201d<\/em> guided the day, which unfolded in simplicity, fraternity, and the joy of the Gospel.<br \/>\nMoments of prayer, testimony, and discussion revealed the beauty of a young, living, and concrete faith. During one spiritual moment, each young person received a biblical word of hope. I received Jeremiah 29:11: \u201cFor I know well the plans I have in mind for you\u2014oracle of the Lord\u2014plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.\u201d Looking at these young people, I saw that this is indeed the case: it is the beautiful work that God is doing in their lives and in their hearts.<br \/>\nAs Pope Francis recalled in his Apostolic Exhortation <em>Christus Vivit<\/em> (cf. par. 64), young people are not only the future of the world, but also its present.<br \/>\nTau Day made this reality visible: young people evangelizing other young people, bearing witness to a God who continues to sow hope in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jos\u00e9 Carlos CERDEIRA MATIAS<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 25, 2025, the Provincial Delegation in Portugal celebrated \u201cTau Day,\u201d an annual gathering of young people associated with our Conventual Franciscan Delegation, to mark the beginning of the new pastoral year. The event took place in the small village of Buleiros, near Fatima. Some sixty young people from various communities participated. The theme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,117,148],"tags":[3021,227],"class_list":["post-89716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-fimp-en","category-news","tag-portugal","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89716","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=89716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89720,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89716\/revisions\/89720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}