{"id":111270,"date":"2021-12-31T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/?p=111270"},"modified":"2022-01-07T03:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:47:26","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/en\/2021\/12\/31\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Brothers and sisters!<\/p>\n

It is the end of the\u00a0 year, it is Advent time and soon it is Christmas!
\nIf I was to play a \u201cword association\u201d <\/em>game with each of you and asked you to choose just one word for this season, my guess is that \u201cgratitude\u201d<\/em> would be the word that many\u00a0would select.
\nThe word gratitude may seem meaningless to those struggling for life\u2026 \u00a0And the COVID19 pandemic has worsened the situation… For what and to whom to pay gratitude then!<\/p>\n

At the OCD Missionary Cooperation Office as well as at the Centre of the Discalced Carmelite Order, the strength \u00a0of our interventions to support social and pastoral actions of our missions in various parts of the world is precisely because of the goodness and the\u00a0 backing from many of you. How lucky and thankful are many of our missionaries because God has put you on our way to support them! Thanks a million and may the Good Lord continue to grant all your hearts\u2019 desires.<\/p>\n

2021 was \u201cone year-long Advent\u201d<\/em> for the\u00a0 whole world in General, and for the OCD Missionary Cooperation Office in particular, as everyone awaits to see when the COVID19 pandemic will end.\u00a0 If not all of us, many of us have been nervous, frustrated, impatient and worried \u2026 This end of the year, this Advent season and the forth coming Christmastide invite us all to look ahead with hope and thanks, and above all else with a deep sense of commitment to support each other in our efforts to cross over this dramatic time.<\/p>\n

The generosity of each one of us is the concrete way in which the Emmanuel, the Greatest Gift of God to humanity, is born and reaches out to those who, during this time, cannot celebrate Christmas!<\/p>\n

To all of you who carry our missionaries and their daily sorrows in your prayers; to all of you who promote missionary needs in your families, \u00a0to your friends and acquaintances; and to all of you who financially contribute to support our mission projects: we are very grateful . Without you we can do nothing but with you we can do everything. May the Lord bless you!<\/p>\n

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The OCD Missionary Cooperation Office<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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