{"id":6114,"date":"2018-06-12T21:55:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2018-06-12T22:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T22:01:03","slug":"unas-manos-vacias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/2018\/06\/12\/unas-manos-vacias\/","title":{"rendered":"Some empty hands "},"content":{"rendered":"

An empty head is useless; but empty hands are a powerful symbol.<\/p>\n

We are all familiar with the mother\u2019s hands that hold and cuddle the baby. We are fa\u00admiliar with the hands that heal wounds and take care of sick people; the hands of a farmer that plant the tilled land; the hands of the bricklayer that build a house stone by stone; the hands that write on paper the intuitions that vibrate within them.<\/p>\n

The hands that bless and forgive; the extended hands of a beggar awaiting a piece of bread; the hands, that with tears, wave good bye; a handshake that is a sign of encounter or gratitude.<\/p>\n

The house I live in, the furniture that surrounds me, the clothes that cover me, the books I read, the route where I walk, the food I eat, the tomb that will receive me\u2026is all the work of someone\u2019s hands. They are like an immense sacrament of service and love. Through them a torrent of riches and goods have come into my life.<\/p>\n

Just by looking at them I should be filled with emotion and be encouraged, to also, through these hands, fill the world with gestures of mercy, signs of forgiveness and recep\u00adtivity, and of long fraternal embraces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the evening of our lives we will be examined in love\u201d (Saint John of the Cross). This is our vocation: giving of ourselves and giving of ourselves without tiring with both hands open wide.<\/p>\n

Extracted from CL No. 17 by f. Ignacio Larra\u00f1aga<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Imagen: \u00a9 Depositphotos.com\/[violin]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An empty head is useless; but empty hands are a powerful symbol.<\/p>\n

We are all familiar with the mother\u2019s hands that hold and cuddle the baby. We are fa\u00admiliar with the hands that heal wounds and take care of sick people; the hands of a farmer that plant the tilled land; the hands of the bricklayer that build a house stone by stone; the hands that write on paper the intuitions that vibrate within them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","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\/6114","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}