{"id":96201,"date":"2026-04-13T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/paraguay-esercizi-spirituali-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:51:35","slug":"paraguay-esercizi-spirituali-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/paraguay-esercizi-spirituali-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay: 2026 Spiritual Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 5-10, 2026, the Provincial Delegation in Paraguay, of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow), conducted a five-day spiritual retreat. The event took place at the Natividad de Mar\u00eda Friary in Guarambar\u00e9, Paraguay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight friars from the Delegation took part. During this time of prayer, reflection, and fraternity, the friars were guided by the Assistant General for the Federaci\u00f3n Am\u00e9rica Latina Conventuales (FALC), Friar Rog\u00e9rio PEREIRA XAVIER.<br \/>\nThe retreat began on Monday, April 5, with a welcome ceremony and a procession of the relic of St. Francis in Asunci\u00f3n. It was a particularly significant day thanks to the presence of St. Francis in the Delegation. The following day, the program continued in Guarambar\u00e9 with lectures, prayer, and meditation.<br \/>\nDuring the retreat, Friar Rog\u00e9rio encouraged participants to use this time as an opportunity to examine their own concrete and real relationship with God and, from there, address the challenges of fraternal life. In this context, he pointed out three fundamental concerns: \u201clack of faith, the encounter that transforms, and the acceptance of change.\u201d The spiritual retreat was inspired by the biblical passage in John 4:1-30, Jesus\u2019 encounter with the Samaritan woman, and was also illuminated by various writings of St. Francis, which helped guide the reflections and discussions.<br \/>\nOn the final day, the friars reflected together on the realities, challenges, and concerns facing the Delegation\u2019s three friaries, located in Asunci\u00f3n, Aregu\u00e1, and Guarambar\u00e9, in light of what was experienced during the retreat. It was a time marked by fraternity, sincere dialogue, and shared discernment, which provided concrete guidance for the future.<br \/>\nThe friars of the Delegation thanked Friar Rog\u00e9rio for making himself available and for his support throughout this retreat and time of shared fraternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Tom\u00e1s Valerio ZEBALLO CABALLERO, Delegation in Paraguay<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 5-10, 2026, the Provincial Delegation in Paraguay, of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow), conducted a five-day spiritual retreat. The event took place at the Natividad de Mar\u00eda Friary in Guarambar\u00e9, Paraguay. Eight friars from the Delegation took part. During this time of prayer, reflection, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[510,1135],"class_list":["post-96201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-paraguay-en","tag-spiritual-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96201","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=96201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96204,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96201\/revisions\/96204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}