{"id":91370,"date":"2025-12-03T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/venezuela-esercizi-spirituali-custodiali-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:00:53","slug":"venezuela-esercizi-spirituali-custodiali-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/venezuela-esercizi-spirituali-custodiali-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: 2025 Custodial Spiritual Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On November 24-28, 2025, the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela, by the grace of God and in accordance with our Constitutions, conducted its annual spiritual retreat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This five-day retreat was characterized by silence, reflection, prayer, and fraternity. It took place at the San Javier del Valle Retreat House, run by the Society of Jesus. The retreat house provided a conducive space for retreat, silence, and an encounter with nature, as it is located in the Andes Mountain Range largely surrounded by mountains over 2,000 meters [6562 feet] high, with emblematic peaks such as Pico Bol\u00edvar, in the state of M\u00e9rida.<br \/>\nThe retreat was led by Friar Juan Antonio AD\u00c1NEZ SILV\u00c1N, the Minister Provincial of the Province of Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain. Twenty-two friars participated.<br \/>\nThe retreat program was rich and profound. It allowed the friars to turn inward and discern God\u2019s presence in their lives. The themes during the retreat followed a true path of salvation, ultimately touching on concrete aspects of fraternal life. From the very first day, the friars were invited to put their lives in order\u2014the essential purpose of the spiritual retreat. This order consisted of returning to one\u2019s heart as a place of encounter and fraternity.<br \/>\nNotable texts used during the retreat included Jesus\u2019 encounter with the Samaritan woman, the Parable of the Prodigal Son\u2014sometimes called \u201cthe parable for those who do not wish to be brothers\u201d\u2014and the reflection on St. Francis\u2019 \u201cA Letter to a Minister.\u201d<br \/>\nThe entire meditation journey ultimately led the participants to arrive at the path of fraternity, from which they could understand their mission as loving sons and as witnesses called to proclaim the Gospel through their fraternal life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Carlos R. ORT\u00cdZ ROJAS, Custodial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 24-28, 2025, the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela, by the grace of God and in accordance with our Constitutions, conducted its annual spiritual retreat. This five-day retreat was characterized by silence, reflection, prayer, and fraternity. It took place at the San Javier del Valle Retreat House, run by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[1135,973],"class_list":["post-91370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-spiritual-retreat","tag-venezuela-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91370","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=91370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91376,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91370\/revisions\/91376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}