{"id":5407,"date":"2023-03-11T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2023-03-10T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:30:35","slug":"saturday-ii-lent-you-carried-this-rebel-on-your-shoulders-warmed-him-against-your-heart-washed-his-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5407","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY II LENT: You carried this rebel on your shoulders, warmed him against your heart, washed his wounds."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I shall get up and go to my father\u2026 (Lk. 15:18)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You are my special benefactor and applied your merits in an altogether special way to me; my generous friend, you forgot all my acts of ingratitude to help me as powerfully as if I had been always faithful to you; my tender father, who carried this rebel on your shoulders, warmed him against your heart, washed his wounds.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s experience of\u00a0 being the prodigal son (EO XIV n. 95 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>O most tender and most loving of all Fathers! You are willing to receive this prodigal child, to change my affliction into joy, and misery into happiness. Who can sufficiently admire such an excess of goodness! I detest from my soul my past disorders\u2026Sincerely do I desire to return to you my Father: all my thoughts, affections, desires, and actions, shall serve this day as so many steps towards my return to you.<\/h3>\n<h3>(The Catholic prayer book and manual of meditations)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall get up and go to my father\u2026 (Lk. 15:18) You are my special benefactor and applied your merits in an altogether special way to me; my generous friend, you forgot all my acts of ingratitude to help me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5407\">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-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}