{"id":14551,"date":"2014-04-09T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2014-03-23T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:25:56","slug":"410-thursday-of-the-fifth-week-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14551","title":{"rendered":"4\/10  Thursday of the Fifth Week in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gospel from John 8:51-59<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>(Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks more\u00a0about His Divinity and His Father)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Excerpt from the Reflections and Practices<br \/>\nof the\u00a0Seventeenth Hour:\u00a0 From 9 to 10 AM of the <a title=\"HP\" href=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=2864\" target=\"_blank\">Hours of the Passion.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>From 9 to 10, crowned with thorns, Jesus is mocked as king and subjected to unheard-of insults and pains.\u00a0 <strong>He Repairs in a special way for the sins of pride.\u00a0 And we\u2014do we avoid sentiments of pride?\u00a0<\/strong> Do we attribute to God the good that we do?\u00a0 Do we consider ourselves inferior to others?\u00a0 Is our mind always empty of any other thought in order to give rise to Grace?\u00a0 Many times we do not give rise to Grace by keeping our mind filled with other thoughts.\u00a0 Then,<strong> since our mind is not completely filled with God, we ourselves cause the devil to bother us, and maybe we even foment temptations.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When our mind is filled with God, as the devil approaches us, not finding the place toward which to direct his temptations, confused, he flees.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> In fact, holy thoughts have so much power against the devil that, as he is about to approach us, they wound him like many swords, and cast him away.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel from John 8:51-59 (Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks more\u00a0about His Divinity and His Father) Excerpt from the Reflections and Practices of the\u00a0Seventeenth Hour:\u00a0 From 9 to 10 AM of the Hours of the Passion. From 9 to 10, crowned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14552,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions\/14552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}