{"id":5320,"date":"2022-12-02T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:42:23","slug":"the-need-to-open-themselves-with-love-to-receive-the-divine-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5320","title":{"rendered":"THE NEED TO OPEN THEMSELVES WITH LOVE TO RECEIVE THE DIVINE SEED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Friday Advent Week 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, \u201cDo you believe that I can do this?\u201d \u201cYes, Lord,\u201d they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, \u201cLet it be done for you according to your faith.\u201d And their eyes were opened..<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Matthew 9:28-30<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Often the action of grace precedes the preaching of the Gospel and when hearts are touched by the first words of this marvelous preaching, they feel the need to open themselves with love to receive the divine seed sent to them from Heaven, but also to produce without delay the fruits of penance which then come to show themselves with all the characteristics of a sincere conversion<\/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>Friday Advent Week 1 When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, \u201cDo you believe that I can do this?\u201d \u201cYes, Lord,\u201d they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5320\">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-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","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=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}