{"id":5410,"date":"2023-03-12T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T17:08:53","slug":"sunday-iii-lent-regenerated-in-the-saving-waters-of-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY III LENT:  regenerated in the saving waters of baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; \u00a0the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0(Jn. 4: 13-15)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>It is then the mercies of the Lord I must proclaim\u2026 for he has quite exhausted the treasures of his grace for my sake\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Beginning with the happy moment when, regenerated in the saving waters of baptism, I was raised to the awesome dignity of child of God, filled with the gifts of my Saviour, I could more easily count the successive and rapid movements of my breathing than the number of the inestimable benefits that this adorable Master has poured out on me in generous measure.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Spiritual conference given by Eugene de Mazenod, 19 March 1809, EO XIV n 48<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>We thank you and praise you, O God,<br \/>\nthat however we may thirst,<br \/>\nwhatever we may need to satisfy our souls,<br \/>\nyou offer it freely and abundantly in Christ;<\/h3>\n<h3>So we drink deep of the living water<br \/>\nand, as we draw from your wells,<br \/>\nwe seek to pass the cup to others<br \/>\nwho, like us, are thirsty for your grace.<\/h3>\n<h3>Amen<\/h3>\n<p>Cf John van de Laar (https:\/\/re-worship.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/prayer-living-water)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; \u00a0the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0(Jn. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5410\">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-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}