{"id":5319,"date":"2022-12-01T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:37:44","slug":"the-word-has-brought-life-to-those-who-have-received-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"THE WORD HAS BROUGHT LIFE TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Thursday Advent Week 1\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> \u201cEveryone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Matthew 7: 24-25<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<em><strong>This Holy Word resounds with the most admirable effects in our diocese; it has been heard in the villages and in the countryside as well as in the episcopal city, and it has been felt that, transmitted from Jesus Christ to his Apostles, it has lost none of its power as it has traversed the centuries; It was felt that, coming from the mouth of the One who is Himself &#8220;eternal life&#8221;, it is still &#8220;spirit and life&#8221; (Jn 6:64), it has brought life to those who have received it; it has been like a celestial light that has come to invest their souls and has made them know the truth<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod, Pastoral Letter on the Missions, 1844<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Advent Week 1\u00a0 \u201cEveryone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5319\">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-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","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=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}