{"id":401592,"date":"2022-11-14T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=401592"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:10:34","slug":"nativity-fast-begins-we-bring-peaceonearth-with-a-christmas-online-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/nativity-fast-begins-we-bring-peaceonearth-with-a-christmas-online-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity Fast begins: We bring #peaceonearth with a Christmas online campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basilica.ro remains a companion for its readers and friends during the 2022 Nativity Fast with a social media Christmas campaign titled #peaceonearth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The theme was inspired by the angels who sang the first Christmas carol in Bethlehem two thousand years ago: \u201cGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men\u201d (Luke 2:14).<\/p>\n

Our times show us how important peace is. The purpose of the #peaceonearth campaign is to prepare ourselves for welcoming the One called \u201cWonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace\u201d (Isaiah 9:6). Our preparation to receive the Prince of Peace consists in becoming peacemakers in a world troubled by conflict and division.<\/p>\n

Our goal is to understand that peace is not a given, but we must work to build it and maintain it by cultivating goodwill, as the angels told us. Building peace requires almsgiving, self-giving, and sacrifice. For this reason, we dedicate the fasting season preceding Christmas to pacification and self-offering.<\/p>\n

Throughout the Commemorative Year 2022<\/a>, we have heard about the hesychast saints<\/a> and their struggles to achieve spiritual stillness through prayer. Furthermore, as part of sanctifying our life, the Patriarch of Romania frequently preached about pacifying selfish passions.<\/p>\n

As we travel down the path with all of these buds of peace, we expect to see blooms or even fruits of pacification until we meet the Prince of Peace as a Baby on Earth.<\/p>\n

We chose the theme #peaceonearth to inaugurate the Commemorative Year 2023, which will be dedicated by the Romanian Patriarchate to hymnographers and church chanters.<\/p>\n

We will discover numerous gifts of peace together, both on the basilica.ro website and on our social media accounts, under the hashtag #peaceonearth including fasting tips, reading recommendations, Factbox articles about the Nativity of the Lord, Christmas carols, peace-making Saints, and other constructive examples of peace-building.<\/p>\n

You may also contribute to our campaign. Feel free to share your views, quotations, and ideas for this Christmas fast using the hashtag #peaceonearth.<\/p>\n

Campaign logo by Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Emanuela Ene<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basilica.ro remains a companion for its readers and friends during the 2022 Nativity Fast with a social media Christmas campaign titled #peaceonearth. The theme was inspired by the angels who sang the first Christmas carol in Bethlehem two thousand years ago: \u201cGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[28818,28911,10322,28910,28909],"class_list":["post-401592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-christmas-2022","tag-christmas-campaign","tag-hesychasm","tag-nativity-fast-2022","tag-peace-on-earth"],"better_featured_image":{"id":401610,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1080,"file":"2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1.jpg","filesize":130919,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"cover-peace-on-earth-1-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":32974,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"cover-peace-on-earth-1-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":38856,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"cover-peace-on-earth-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":21170,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"cover-peace-on-earth-1-1536x864.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":61457,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1-1536x864.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cover-peace-on-earth-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401592\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=401592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401592\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401610\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=401592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=401592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=401592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}