{"id":11938,"date":"2023-01-14T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T19:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/?p=11938"},"modified":"2023-01-14T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T19:52:50","slug":"a-peaceful-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/2023\/01\/14\/a-peaceful-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peaceful Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brother Leo accompanied Brother Francis to the grotto. Francis spent the entire day in the cavern reflecting on the poverty in Bethlehem, the mystery of Christmas, the universal reconciliation between the body and the spirit, the marriage of heaven and earth. He longed to see the Infant, who is the link between heaven and earth, with his own eyes.<\/p>\n

At nightfall, Brother Francis went up to the cabin. After eating, Francis was carried away but did not speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrother Francis, say something,\u201d insisted Brother Leo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWords?\u201d inquired Francis. \u201cHere the appropriate words are tears. Oh, Brother Leo, the Lord has been too good to us! When I think of Bethlehem, tears are the only thing I can express. I don\u2019t know how to speak, Brother Leo. All I can produce are broken phrases, but a tearful silence is better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShare with me those broken phrases that evoke the mystery of Christmas,\u201d Brother Leo insisted.<\/p>\n

Francis closed his eyes and was silent for a long while. Finally, he opened his mouth as if to say something, but said nothing. He fell silent once again. Brother Francis looked as if he were controlling his emotions, reducing \u00a0them to words. Finally, in a soft and sweet voice he began to pronounce a string of words: Bethlehem. Humility. Peace. Silence. Intimacy. Pleasure. Sweetness. Hope. Kindness. Softness. Aurora. Goodness. Love. Light. Tenderness. Dawn…<\/p>\n

The last words were almost inaudible. Afterwards, Brother Francis did not say another word.<\/p>\n

Extracted from the book \u201cBrother Francis of Assisi\u201d, by Fr. Ignacio Larra\u00f1aga, OFM<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a1Venid, hermanos, subamos a la monta\u00f1a de Dios para contemplar una Gran Luz! Los cerros ser\u00e1n abatidos, las curvas enderezadas y las asperezas se tornar\u00e1n en suavidades \u00a1Venid, hermanos, a ver al Amor! El Hermano qued\u00f3 en compa\u00f1\u00eda de fray Le\u00f3n….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditar-y-vivir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}