{"id":25276,"date":"2024-12-24T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:07:34","slug":"ggov-santo-natale-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/ggov-santo-natale-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;24px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Dearest sisters, youth in formation and Pauline Cooperators,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">To us a child is born, to us a Son is given. (Is 9:5)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;A child is born:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>a birth is always a source of hope,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>it is life that blossoms,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>a promise of the future.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Moreover, this Child, Jesus, was born &#8220;to us&#8221;:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>an &#8220;us&#8221; without any borders, privileges or exclusions.<br \/>\nThe Child born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>was born for everyone:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>he is the &#8220;son&#8221; tha gos has given<br \/>\nto the entire human family.<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Pope Francis, Urbi et Orbi, Christmas 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Greetings for a happy Christmas and a serene New Year!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Sr. M. Bernardita Mer\u00e1z Sotelo, superior general<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>and sisters of the General Government<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;24px&#8221;][vc_column_text]Dearest sisters, youth in formation and Pauline Cooperators, &nbsp; To us a child is born, to us a Son is given. (Is 9:5) &nbsp; &#8220;A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[650,651,652],"class_list":["post-25276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-2024-en","tag-natale-en","tag-santo-natale-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32731,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions\/32731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}