{"id":3958,"date":"2019-04-26T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2019-04-08T22:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:44:49","slug":"in-our-resurrected-state-we-will-die-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"IN OUR RESURRECTED STATE, WE WILL DIE NO MORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0Our Lord wanted to experience in his mortal life all the fortunes mortals are heir to, the fortunes of that mortal nature he had assumed in his mysterious Incarnation [&#8230;] He espoused our cause to the extent of identifying with us. [&#8230;] <\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>In this wonderful union of Jesus Christ and our souls lies the mystery of our participation in his grace, his glory. [&#8230;] [The feast of Easter] is ratification of the dignity of other feasts. [&#8230;] What the Church desires is that we should enter into the spirit of other feasts. They are a sort of journeying toward the great solemnity of the Resurrection; they lay before us the entire life of our Lord who was bound to be born, live and die in order to resurrect; they are distributed throughout the year like wayside stations so that we can restore our strength from time to time on our pilgrimage toward the happy destination where, in our resurrected state, we will die no more.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bishop Eugene de Mazenod, Lenten pastoral of February 1846. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Quoted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/mazenod-eugene-de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/mazenod-eugene-de\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Our Lord wanted to experience in his mortal life all the fortunes mortals are heir to, the fortunes of that mortal nature he had assumed in his mysterious Incarnation [&#8230;] He espoused our cause to the extent of identifying with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3958\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}