{"id":3996,"date":"2013-12-23T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:31:20","slug":"3996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/3996\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter South Africa no 34 \u2013 December 23, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><a title=\"Newsletter 34\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/no-34_23th-december-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3998 aligncenter\" alt=\"Newsletter South Africa no 34\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/newsletter-south-africa-no-34.png?resize=629%2C131\" width=\"629\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/newsletter-south-africa-no-34.png?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/newsletter-south-africa-no-34.png?resize=300%2C63&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/newsletter-south-africa-no-34.png?resize=768%2C160&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/newsletter-south-africa-no-34.png?resize=900%2C188&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>On this second day before Christmas, I am happy to come again and to wish you a very \u201clucid\u201d one! This is an idea taken from the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Lucid comes from Latin and means \u201cfrom the light\u201d, \u201cfilled with light\u201d, \u201cclear\u201d.\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>We just lost our dear Tata Madiba who was one of those lucid ones, who reflected light and was a bearer of light in our world. <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>May we try to imitate some of his virtues by being bearers of peace, justice and reconciliation.\u00a0 Indeed, Christmas awakens in us our deepest longings, and only God can fulfil them, but occasionally, in the course of history He gives us some models to imitate, and Nelson Mandela was surely one of them.<a title=\"Newsletter 34\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/no-34_23th-december-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> FULL TEXT<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this second day before Christmas, I am happy to come again and to wish you a very \u201clucid\u201d one! This is an idea taken from the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Lucid comes from Latin and means \u201cfrom the light\u201d, \u201cfilled with light\u201d, \u201cclear\u201d.\u00a0 We just lost our dear Tata Madiba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[1049,1059],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}