{"id":5400,"date":"2023-03-06T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2023-02-27T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:48:44","slug":"monday-ii-lent-let-the-church-be-your-visible-face-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY II LENT: let the Church be your visible face in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Jesus said to his disciples:\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Stop judging and you will not be judged.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Forgive and you will be forgiven.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Lk. 6:36-38)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Charity is the pivot on which our whole existence turns.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr. Hippolyte Guibert, 29 July 1830, EO VII n 350<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nyou have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father,<br \/>\nand have told us that whoever sees you sees Him.<\/h3>\n<h3>Show us your face and we will be saved. You are the visible face of the invisible Father,<br \/>\nof the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy:<br \/>\nlet the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified.<\/h3>\n<h3>Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing,<br \/>\nso that your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Pope Francis)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said to his disciples:\u00a0 &#8220;Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. &#8220;Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.&#8221;\u00a0(Lk. 6:36-38) Charity is the pivot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5400\">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-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}