{"id":5459,"date":"2023-04-24T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2023-04-21T02:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:22:49","slug":"for-eighteen-centuries-this-prediction-has-been-fulfilled-with-unchanging-faithfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"FOR EIGHTEEN CENTURIES THIS PREDICTION HAS BEEN FULFILLED WITH UNCHANGING FAITHFULNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The Church, mother of all Christians, is called to carry in her womb all the peoples of the earth blessed in Jesus Christ&#8230; Her divine Founder predicted that &#8220;the gates of hell shall never prevail against her&#8221; (Mt 16:18) and for eighteen centuries this prediction has never ceased to be fulfilled with unwavering faithfulness.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>&#8230; How many furious storms has the ship of the Church been battered by, as it moves forward on the stormy waves? It often seems as if it is going to be submerged, and suddenly calm is restored and those who were perishing are saved each time to be saved a thousand times more<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Pastoral letter of Bishop de Mazenod to the Diocese of Marseilles for Lent 1847<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The world has always shown hostility to the message of God \u2013 a truth which ought to give some concern to the contemporary church existing for the most part rather comfortably in a world of increasing wickedness.&#8221; (Robert Mounce)<\/h3>\n<h3>{Revelation, Eerdmans, www.eerdmans.com, 1977, p. 227)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church, mother of all Christians, is called to carry in her womb all the peoples of the earth blessed in Jesus Christ&#8230; Her divine Founder predicted that &#8220;the gates of hell shall never prevail against her&#8221; (Mt 16:18) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5459\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","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=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}