{"id":50773,"date":"2025-12-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/?p=50773"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:14:42","slug":"aguardamos-a-tua-vinda-com-esperanca-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/aguardamos-a-tua-vinda-com-esperanca-7\/","title":{"rendered":"We await Your coming with hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We await and prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus in an ecclesial dynamic symbolized by the Advent wreath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We await and prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus within the context of the Apostolic Life Society of <a href=\"http:\/\/cppsmissionaries.org\/\">Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood<\/a> symbolized in the image of <a href=\"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/?s=S%C3%A3o+Gaspar+del+B%C3%BAfalo\">Saint Gaspar del Bufalo<\/a> and in the presence of the relics of <a href=\"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/padre-joao-merlini-c-pp-s\/\">Blessed Giovanni Merlinni.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We await and prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus with Mary, who is always a sign of God&#039;s tenderness towards humanity and of the Lord&#039;s humble servant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We await and prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus in a communal and personal context, since the chapel is the symbol of the highest communion among us. <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/fcMthKbhBLyHIoYaF\">C.PP.S. Missionaries.<\/a> and personal communion with the Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us wait, let us prepare, and like the prophet Balaam (Num 24:2-7, 15-17a) who contemplated the visions of the Almighty (God), let us contemplate the vision of heaven incarnate in the family of Nazareth, which has as its center the Child God, Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Father Virgil<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um tempo de espera e prepara\u00e7\u00e3o para a vinda do Senhor Jesus, vivido em comunidade e com Maria, num caminho de f\u00e9 marcado pelo Advento, pela comunh\u00e3o e pela contempla\u00e7\u00e3o do Menino Deus.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,79],"tags":[100,92],"class_list":["post-50773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advento","category-portugal","tag-advento","tag-missionarios-do-preciosissimo-sangue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50777,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50773\/revisions\/50777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}