{"id":5422,"date":"2023-03-22T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2023-03-14T01:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T00:57:41","slug":"wednesday-iv-lent-can-a-mother-forget-her-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5422","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY IV LENT: Can a mother forget her infant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Can a mother forget her infant,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">be without tenderness for the child of her womb?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Even should she forget,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I will never forget you.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Is. 49:15)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The Church, that glorious inheritance purchased by Christ the Saviour at the cost of his own blood, has in our days been cruelly ravaged. The beloved spouse of God\u2019s only begotten Son is torn with anguish as she mourns the shameful defection of the children she herself bore.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Preface to the Rule\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>God, our Father, through the life, death and resurrection of Christ your Son, you bring together in your Spirit, from all nations, a people to be your own.<\/h3>\n<h3>Keep the Church faithful to its mission: may it be a leaven in the world, renewing us in Christ and\u00a0transforming us into your family. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Roman Missal)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. (Is. 49:15) The Church, that glorious inheritance purchased by Christ the Saviour at the cost of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5422\">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-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","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=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}