{"id":5385,"date":"2023-02-24T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2023-02-13T03:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:35:02","slug":"friday-after-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5385","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">releasing those bound unjustly,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">untying the thongs of the yoke;\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Setting free the oppressed,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">breaking every yoke;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sharing your bread with the hungry,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Clothing the naked when you see them,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">and not turning your back on your own.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Then your light shall break forth like the dawn\u2026 (Is.58:6-8)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Charity embraces everything; and for new needs, it invents, when necessary, new means: spiritual help, bodily help, bread for the soul, bread for the body; instruction for ignorance; advice, guidance, support for weakness; asylum for virtue or for penance; pious sentiments, sweet consolations, supernatural strength for the dying; All kinds of good works are being generated in the name of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bishop de Mazenod&#8217;s Pastoral Letter 7 Feb. 1847<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. \u00a0 \u00a0 (Saint Augustine)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:\u00a0releasing those bound unjustly,\u00a0untying the thongs of the yoke;\u00a0 Setting free the oppressed,\u00a0breaking every yoke; Sharing your bread with the hungry,\u00a0sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them,\u00a0and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5385\">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-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}