{"id":31180,"date":"2014-07-04T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31180"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:30:14","slug":"servant-of-god-brother-bernardo-vaz-lobo-teixeira-de-vasconcelos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/servant-of-god-brother-bernardo-vaz-lobo-teixeira-de-vasconcelos\/","title":{"rendered":"Servant of God Brother Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bernardo-de-Vasconcelos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31181 alignleft\" alt=\"Bernardo de Vasconcelos\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bernardo-de-Vasconcelos-167x300.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bernardo-de-Vasconcelos-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bernardo-de-Vasconcelos.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a>Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos was a Benedictine monk, mystic, poet, and authored <i>C\u00e2ntico de Amor<\/i>. Studied at the University of Coimbra and there was part of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society which did works of evangelization and charity especially with the poor. Likewise, he was devoted to regular eucharistic adoration. Professionally, he was an editor of the journal which studied democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo was born in S\u00e3o Rom\u00e3o Corgo (Celorico de Basto), Portugal, on July 7, 1902.\u00a0 He discerned a call to the monastic life and entered the Monastery of Singeverga on 16 August 1924 and professing vows in September 29, 1925. His name in religion was Brother Bernardo da Anunciada. The superior sent him to the Abbey of Mont-C\u00e9sar in Beligium to study theology. He was back home in a year\u2019s time due a diagnosis of TB.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo illness weakened his body and yet he was peaceful and trusting in Divine Providence. The hundredfold was very present in Brother Bernardo\u2019s life. In a letter to a fellow patient Bernardo wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cdon\u2019t get delivered to sadness that only serves to disable our best energies &#8230; it expands your heart and let him the life-giving Sun of joy. Joy, but with so many ordeals? I\u2019m telling you: who did you see still no cross? The cross follows us wherever we go and we have to take; and, if we don&#8217;t want to raise our arms and generously to hugs, I mean: with all the ardor of our hearts-what do we have to take a challenge behind us, the drags.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brother Bernardo died in the early hours of July 4, 1932, after a long suffering caused by TB. He is buried in the parish church of\u00a0S\u00e3o Rom\u00e3o do Corgo<\/p>\n<p>Brother Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos is now honored with the title of Servant of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In all things may God be glorified.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos was a Benedictine monk, mystic, poet, and authored C\u00e2ntico de Amor. Studied at the University of Coimbra and there was part of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society which did works of evangelization and charity especially with the poor. Likewise, he was devoted to regular eucharistic adoration. Professionally, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/servant-of-god-brother-bernardo-vaz-lobo-teixeira-de-vasconcelos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Servant of God Brother Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos<\/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":[28,22],"tags":[1727,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180"}],"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=31180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31182,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions\/31182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}