{"id":68105,"date":"2021-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/article\/%section%\/fortaleza-en-debilidad\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:00:00","slug":"fortaleza-en-debilidad","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/article\/en-espanol\/noticias-locales\/fortaleza-en-debilidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortaleza en Debilidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>&#8220;Te basta mi gracia, porque mi poder se manifiesta en la debilidad&#8221; (2 Cor 12,9).<\/p>\n<p>Es un poco extra\u00f1o pensar que Dios puede trabajar en las debilidades. No creemos que las debilidades sean un instrumento que Dios usa para su gloria. Aprend\u00ed esa lecci\u00f3n este verano.<\/p>\n<p>Este verano estuve en Guatemala para inmersi\u00f3n de espa\u00f1ol, con otros catorce seminaristas. Mi experiencia ten\u00eda muchas dificultades: por primera vez en un pa\u00eds nuevo, aprendiendo una lengua nueva, y estaba cansado todos los d\u00edas. <\/p>\n<p>A la mitad de nuestra inmersi\u00f3n, me sent\u00ed frustrado con mi comprensi\u00f3n del espa\u00f1ol. Durante la misa, mientras escuchaba las lecturas, me sent\u00ed un poco triste porque no comprend\u00eda las lecturas. Pero, en la segunda lectura, escuch\u00e9 que Dios dijo a San Pablo &#8220;Te basta mi gracia, porque mi poder se manifiesta en la     debilidad&#8221;. Estas palabras me ayudaron, y pude ver que esto es verdad con las personas aqu\u00ed en Guatemala. <\/p>\n<p>Vi el poder de Dios trabajar por las dificultades en las vidas de estas personas. Cuando nos sentimos insuficientes en nuestras dificultades, nos damos cuenta de que necesitamos un Salvador, y todas las cosas son por la gracia de Dios. Aunque las personas aqu\u00ed pasan muchas dificultades, son muy fuertes y felices, porque     tienen el poder de Dios. <\/p>\n<p>Aprender espa\u00f1ol me ense\u00f1o que este trabajo no es mi trabajo, sino el trabajo de Dios. Yo, simplemente, soy un instrumento. Despu\u00e9s de esta experiencia me sent\u00ed m\u00e1s en paz y s\u00e9 que Dios puede trabajar en cualquier cosa, especialmente en las debilidades.<\/p>\n<p><i>Poczatek, seminarista de la parroquia Santa Elizabeth Ann Seton, cursa su tercer a\u00f1o de teolog\u00eda en el seminario San Carlos Borromeo en Wynnewood, Pa.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Te basta mi gracia, porque mi poder se manifiesta en la debilidad&#8221; (2 Cor 12,9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68106,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"section":[1568],"topic":[],"ach_author":[1337],"class_list":["post-68105","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-noticias-locales","ach_author-luke-j-poczatek"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/68105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=68105"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=68105"},{"taxonomy":"ach_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ach_author?post=68105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}