{"id":3989,"date":"2023-12-21T19:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfmssacr.com\/cfmssacr\/en\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2023-12-21T19:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:14:03","slug":"santo-natale-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfmssacr.com\/cfmssacr\/en\/blog\/2023\/12\/21\/santo-natale-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Christmas 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><div class=\"divider\"><\/div><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We Clarist Franciscan Missionaries of the Most Blessed Sacrament, gathered from Europe to South America, <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>from Africa to India, in the gift of the Child Jesus born in the grotto of Bethlehem,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>wish to\u00a0 send you all our best wishes for a Holy Christmas and a peaceful 2024.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"divider\"><\/div><\/h4>\n<p>This year, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Nativity scene that St Francis first set up in Greccio in 1223, we propose a different prayer to be recited on the 25th December.<br \/>\nA prayer that does not stop at the invitation to praise God, but spurs every man to act in the name of the Lord, to give himself to Him and to the fulfilment of His will.<\/p>\n<div id=\"framed_box_234243ca7eee9a2fadc58121d2a25de1\" class=\"framed_box rounded aligncenter\">\n\t<div class=\"framed_box_content\" style=\"background-color:#f1edea;color:rgba(82,51,33,0.8);\">\n\t\t<p class=\"responsive_text\" data-compression=\"10\" data-max=\"20\" data-min=\"20\" style=\"line-height:1.5em\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CHRISTMAS PSALM OF SAINT FRANCIS (FS 281. 303.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"one_half\"><p>Exult in God, our help,<br \/>\nJubilate to the Lord God living and true with a voice of joy.<\/p>\n<p>For mighty and dreadful is the Lord,<br \/>\nGreat King over all the earth.<\/p>\n<p>For the most holy heavenly Father<br \/>\nour King before the ages<br \/>\nsent down from on high his beloved Son,<br \/>\nand he was born of the blessed Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n<p>He has called upon me: &#8216;You are my father&#8217;,<br \/>\nand I will make him my firstborn,<br \/>\nhighest of the kings of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>In that day the Lord sent his mercy<br \/>\nand in the night his song.<\/p>\n<p>This is the day, which the Lord has made:<br \/>\nLet us rejoice in it and be glad.<\/p>\n<p>For the most holy beloved Child is given to us<br \/>\nand was born for us on the way<br \/>\nand was laid in the manger<br \/>\nfor he had no place in the inn.<\/div>\n<div class=\"one_half last\"><p>Glory to the Lord God in the highest,<br \/>\nand peace on earth to men of good will.<\/p>\n<p>Let the heavens rejoice and the earth exult,<br \/>\nquiver the sea and all it holds,<br \/>\nLet the fields and all they contain rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Sing to him a new canticle;<br \/>\nSing to the Lord from all the earth.<\/p>\n<p>For great is the Lord and worthy of all praise,<br \/>\nhe is terrible above all gods.<\/p>\n<p>Give to the Lord, oh land of the peoples<br \/>\nthe glory and honour<br \/>\nthe glory of his name.<\/p>\n<p>Bring your bodies as an offering<br \/>\nand take upon your shoulders his holy Cross<br \/>\nand follow to the end his most holy commandments.<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"framed_box_space\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Clarist Franciscan Missionaries of the Most Blessed Sacrament, gathered from Europe to South America, from Africa to India, in the gift of the Child Jesus born in the grotto of Bethlehem, wish to\u00a0 send you all our best wishes for a Holy Christmas and a peaceful 2024. 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