{"id":4180,"date":"2023-09-08T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/downloads\/survey-of-membership-ifc-tor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:00:44","slug":"booklet-creating-your-nativity-scene-greccio","status":"publish","type":"wpdmpro","link":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wpdm-package\/booklet-creating-your-nativity-scene-greccio\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklet &#8211; Creating Your Nativity Scene with Pope Francis &#8211; Greccio and the &#8216;O Antiphons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4252 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greccio-Booklet-Christmas-post.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"348\" \/>Francis of Assisi is credited with popularizing the nativity scene with a live re-enactment at Greccio 800 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, friars in Greccio, Italy, have gathered their habits tight against the cold of December and scurried into the cave-like chapel for evening prayer. In the flickering of candlelight, encouraged by Brother Draft, a single voice would rise in pitch and confidence as if scaling the mountain itself.<\/p>\n<p>Chanted during 17-23 December, the O Antiphons recall titles of Jesus, the Messiah, that have echoed from seashores to mountain tops and from synagogues to chapels since Old Testament times.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled within them, is a longing for the coming of Christ in glory, breathed afresh through the remembering of his first coming at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv. &amp; Artist Friar Joseph Dorniak, OFM Conv.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis of Assisi is credited with popularizing the nativity scene with a live re-enactment at Greccio 800 years ago. For centuries, friars in Greccio, Italy, have gathered their habits tight against the cold of December and scurried into the cave-like chapel for evening prayer. In the flickering of candlelight, encouraged by Brother Draft, a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"__wpdm_changelog":[]},"wpdmcategory":[],"wpdmtag":[],"class_list":["post-4180","wpdmpro","type-wpdmpro","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpdmpro\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpdmpro"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpdmpro"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wpdmcategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpdmcategory?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"wpdmtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifc-tor.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpdmtag?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}