{"id":5384,"date":"2023-02-23T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2023-02-13T03:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:21:52","slug":"thursday-after-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0(Dt. 30: 19-20)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The new proclamation and acceptance of the law amidst a people who had, in some way, given up God\u2019s commandments and who again want to be under the loving yoke of the Lord must be done in a way that leaves a deep impression.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr. Bruno Guigues, 5 November 1837, EO IX n 652\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Dear Lord,<\/h3>\n<h3>Today, I choose life. I choose to follow you always. Help me to know you more as I journey through Lent. Increase my faith and trust in you in all my hard situations. Help me to hear your voice guiding me and correcting me as I spend time in prayer during Lent.<\/h3>\n<h3>Help me to make the right choices when it is so hard to do. Help me to hold fast to You when I am tired and weak. Today Lord, I choose life by choosing to make you my life.<\/h3>\n<h3>Amen.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Adapted from: https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/devotionals\/your-daily-prayer\/a-prayer-to-choose-life.html<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0(Dt. 30: 19-20) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5384\">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-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","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=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}