{"id":19187,"date":"2024-08-23T00:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/contemplation-and-action\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:36:37","slug":"contemplation-and-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/contemplation-and-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation and action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>He then went up the mountain, called to himself those he wanted, and they came to him.<br\/>He constituted Twelve of them-whom he called apostles-to be with him and to send them out to preach with power to cast out demons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<cite><em>Mark<\/em> 3:13-15<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The <em>Foreword<\/em> to the Statute states, &#8220;<em>We believe that the name Magnificat indicates that each member of the Community intends to unite <\/em>contemplation<em> with<\/em>action<em>, like Mary who, as soon as she received the gift of Jesus in herself, hastened to bring it to Elizabeth<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>One cannot really receive Jesus without bringing Him to others!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The spiritual life of the Community body, therefore, constantly alternates between <em>worship<\/em> and <em>ministry<\/em>, between <em>being with Jesus<\/em> and<em>going to preach<\/em>, between <em>Tabor<\/em> and the <em>valley<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>On Tabor everything seems easy, God&#8217;s voice is clear, the heart is full of joy: the hour of night worship, certain community prayers that are sorry they end, a prayer over one&#8217;s brother when God&#8217;s action is tangible&#8230; then you come down from the mountain, you come up against your own limitations and those of others, with the fatigue of the Gospel.\nBut there is not one without the other: the valley and the mountain look at each other. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He then went up the mountain, called to himself those he wanted, and they came to him.He constituted Twelve of them-whom he called apostles-to be with him and to send them out to preach with power to cast out demons Mark 3:13-15 The Foreword to the Statute states, &#8220;We believe that the name Magnificat indicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10877,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19187","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21380,"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19187\/revisions\/21380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}