{"id":5423,"date":"2023-03-23T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2023-03-23T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:29:07","slug":"thursday-iv-lent-when-we-ourselves-had-turned-away-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5423","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY IV LENT: when we ourselves had turned away from you"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The LORD said to Moses,\u00a0&#8220;Go down at once to your people\u00a0whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,\u00a0for they have become depraved.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them\u2026\u201d (Ex. 32:7)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Faced with such a deplorable situation,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>the Church earnestly appeals to the ministers<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>whom she herself enrolled in the cause\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>of her divine Spouse,<br \/>\nto do all in their power,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>by word and example,<br \/>\nto rekindle the flame\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>of faith that has all but died in the hearts of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>so many of her children.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Preface to the Rule of Life<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Lord, when we ourselves had turned away from you on account of our sins, you brought us back to be reconciled, O Lord, so that, converted at last to you, we might love one another through your Son, whom for our sake you handed over to death.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation II)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LORD said to Moses,\u00a0&#8220;Go down at once to your people\u00a0whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,\u00a0for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them\u2026\u201d (Ex. 32:7) Faced with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5423\">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-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","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=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}