{"id":24143,"date":"2008-11-29T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/jewish-youth-antagonize-friars\/"},"modified":"2008-11-29T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T11:26:51","slug":"jewish-youth-antagonize-friars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/jewish-youth-antagonize-friars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Youth Antagonize Friars in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/OFMs%20walking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"133\" alt=\"OFMs walking.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/OFMs%20walking-thumb-200x133.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>Our sensibilities are heightened,our sense of peace is frequently threatened. Violence erupts so easily these days that it&#8217;s hardly news anymore. Being spat on would likely enrage me and I would hope that I could remain calm. But who knows. I pray for peace in my morning offering, at Mass and whenever I hear a news report revealing any insane act of violence (which is a million times a day). How do we engage pugnacious youth to to live in peace? Do we turn the other cheek? How and why? How do the Franciscan friars live in the Holy Land day after day in the middle of violence and remain at peace with their vocation?<\/p>\n<p>A recent incident is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theholylandreview.net\/holyland\/att_det.jsp?wi_number=1052&amp;wi_codseq=\">reported<\/a> by one of the friars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sensibilities are heightened,our sense of peace is frequently threatened. Violence erupts so easily these days that it&#8217;s hardly news anymore. Being spat on would likely enrage me and I would hope that I could remain calm. But who knows. I pray for peace in my morning offering, at Mass and whenever I hear a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/jewish-youth-antagonize-friars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jewish Youth Antagonize Friars in Jerusalem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}