{"id":6562,"date":"2023-12-16T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2023-12-16T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T02:33:00","slug":"advent-message-3-to-velasco-friends-from-falmouth-quarter-friends-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6562","title":{"rendered":"Advent Message 3 to Velasco Friends from Falmouth Quarter Friends, December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Sisters and Brothers in Velasco,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our prayers and love to you this third week of Advent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tomorrow&nbsp;we would light the candle of Joy and remember the joy felt by the shepherds when the angels came to them with the amazing news.&nbsp; One of the last poems published by Wendell Berry (a favorite poet of mine) has these lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe sees the shepherds on their cold hill by night, \/ the sky flying suddenly open over their heads,\/the light of very heaven falling upon them, \/ the angels descending, slowly as snow, their singing \/ filling far and wide the dark. \u201cOn Earth \/ peace, good will.\u201d \u2026 He thinks of the distance, the hard hungry \/ journey of a pilgrim \u2026 \/ &nbsp;\u2026 towards the almost forgotten \/ light beyond the polluted river, the blasted mountain, \/ the killed children, the bombed village,\/ beyond and beyond is the shepherd-startling, ever staying light. .. \/ he sets out\u201d.&nbsp; May we, in these challenging times in Cuba and in Maine remember the shepherd\u2019s joy and journey together towards that light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+++<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queridas hermanas y hermanos de Velasco,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuestras oraciones y amor para ustedes en esta tercera semana de Adviento. Ma\u00f1ana estaremos encendiendo la vela de la Alegr\u00eda y recordando el gozo que sintieron los pastores cuando los \u00e1ngeles vinieron a ellos con la sorprendente noticia. Uno de los \u00faltimos poemas publicados por Wendell Berry (uno de mis poetas favoritos) tiene estas l\u00edneas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVe a los pastores en su fr\u00eda colina por la noche, \/ el cielo volando repentinamente abierto sobre sus cabezas, \/ la luz del mismo cielo cayendo sobre ellos, \/ los \u00e1ngeles descendiendo, lentamente como la nieve, su canto \/ llenando a lo largo y ancho la oscuridad. . \u201cEn la Tierra \/ paz, buena voluntad\u201d. \u2026 Piensa en la distancia, el duro y hambriento \/ viaje de un peregrino\u2026 \/ \u2026 hacia la casi olvidada \/ luz m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del r\u00edo contaminado, la monta\u00f1a devastada, \/ los ni\u00f1os asesinados, la aldea bombardeada,\/ m\u00e1s all\u00e1 y m\u00e1s all\u00e1 est\u00e1 el pastor- sorprendente, siempre luz. .. \/ se pone en marcha\u201d. Que nosotros, en estos tiempos dif\u00edciles en Cuba y Maine, recordemos la alegr\u00eda del pastor y caminemos juntos hacia esa luz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con amor<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sisters and Brothers in Velasco, Our prayers and love to you this third week of Advent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tomorrow&nbsp;we would light the candle of Joy and remember the joy felt by the shepherds when the angels came to them with the amazing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quarterly-meeting","category-velasco-friends-meeting-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-1HQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}