{"id":1117,"date":"2011-12-02T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-12-01T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:35:23","slug":"god-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"GOD AND GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the young people played according to the spirit of the Gospel, it was an effective means of achieving salvation. He was teaching them to find God present in every aspect of their lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Art. 2 This is why these amusements must take care never to offend God in any way, but even more they must aim to give themselves to the utmost joy, to the greatest exhilaration with a view to pleasing God, conforming themselves to the precept of the Apostle that whether we eat, or drink, or are doing whatever other thing, we do it in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Statuts, Chapitre IX \u2013 Des jeux et divertissements<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What a wonderfully alive place the house and cloister of Aix en Provence must have been every time that these several hundred young people came together. The Carmelite sisters had founded the place to live their relationship with God through their style of prayer. Now the youth of Aix were continuing that tradition according to their particular youthful style &#8212; and enriching the community of Oblates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Joy is not in things; it is in us.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Richard Wagner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the young people played according to the spirit of the Gospel, it was an effective means of achieving salvation. He was teaching them to find God present in every aspect of their lives. Art. 2 This is why these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[26,17],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule","tag-prayer","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}