{"id":4355,"date":"2020-05-14T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T10:34:14","slug":"a-moving-sea-between-the-shores-of-our-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"A MOVING SEA BETWEEN THE SHORES OF OUR SOULS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cA person can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.\u00a0You are my friends\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (John 15:13-14)<\/p>\n<p>Every sentence of today\u2019s Gospel (<strong>John 15: 9-17<\/strong>) is an invitation to deep reflection and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>It is about the love between Jesus and his Father, shared between Jesus and his disciples and shared among each of us. It is not a bond of love, but better expressed as \u201ca moving sea between the shores of our souls\u201d (Kahlil Gibran).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture3-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture3-1-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture3-1-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture3-1.png 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>St. Eugene understood the power of this \u201cmoving sea\u201d when, in 1830, he insisted that<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cCharity is the pivot on which our whole existence turns.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Repeated again on his deathbed:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAmong yourselves, charity, charity, charity.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today let us focus on this moving sea of God\u2019s love overwhelming us. The pandemic bombards us with so many powerful forces &#8211; but nothing can take away the power of the overwhelming love of the one who gave his life for us, his friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA person can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.\u00a0You are my friends\u201d (John 15:13-14) Every sentence of today\u2019s Gospel (John 15: 9-17) is an invitation to deep reflection and transformation. It is about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4355\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}