{"id":91726,"date":"2025-12-15T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/brasile-ritiro-custodiale-2025-a-santos-dumont\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:07:09","slug":"brasile-ritiro-custodiale-2025-a-santos-dumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/brasile-ritiro-custodiale-2025-a-santos-dumont\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 2025 Custodial Retreat in Santos Dumont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On December 8-12, 2025, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), celebrated their annual spiritual retreat. The event took place at the Ser\u00e1fico Santo Ant\u00f4nio Seminary in Santos Dumont, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The seminary is a presence of the Friars Minor Province of the Holy Cross in Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The retreat was a time of recollection and silent prayer. The theme of the retreat was the Canticle of the Creatures composed by our Seraphic Father, St. Francis of Assisi. The retreat was led by Friar Aldir CROCOLI, OFM Cap., from the Capuchin Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.<br \/>\nOn December 8, the retreat began with the solemn Mass commemorating the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The Provincial Custos, Friar Carlos Roberto de Oliveira CHARLES, OFM Conv., presided with other friars celebrating.<br \/>\nDuring the retreat, Friar Aldir emphasized the importance of prayer and silence as a privileged opportunity to encounter God and renew fraternity. Faced with a world filled with noise and distraction, each friar was invited to retreat to his own \u201csacred place\u201d of sincere and direct dialogue with God.<br \/>\nWe thank God for this time of grace. It helped the friars of the Custody prayerfully immerse themselves into the Canticle of the Creatures and allowed them to be challenged by its spiritual strength and its call to a life of reconciliation, fraternity, and openness to mission. We are grateful to Friar Aldir for his fraternal and inspiring guidance, and we ask the Lord to always bless him in his life and ministry!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Willian Gomes MENDON\u00c7A, Custodial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8-12, 2025, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), celebrated their annual spiritual retreat. The event took place at the Ser\u00e1fico Santo Ant\u00f4nio Seminary in Santos Dumont, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The seminary is a presence of the Friars Minor Province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[1494,2078],"class_list":["post-91726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-brazil-imm","tag-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91726","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=91726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91727,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91726\/revisions\/91727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}