{"id":5329,"date":"2022-12-09T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:41:04","slug":"the-people-are-caught-up-in-thoughtless-ignorance-of-all-that-pertains-to-their-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"THE PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THOUGHTLESS IGNORANCE OF ALL THAT PERTAINS TO THEIR SALVATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Friday of the Second Week of Advent<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Jesus said to the crowds: \u201cTo what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, \u2018We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Mt 11:16-17<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<em><strong>&#8220;The people are caught up in thoughtless ignorance of all that pertains to their salvation&#8230;Thus, it is supremely important, it is urgently imperative, that we lead the multitude of lost sheep back to the fold, that we teach these degenerate Christians who Jesus Christ is, that we rescue them from Satan&#8217;s power and show them the way to eternal life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Eugene de Mazenod, Preface to the Rule, 1826<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday of the Second Week of Advent Jesus said to the crowds: \u201cTo what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, \u2018We played the flute for you, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5329\">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-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}