{"id":15283,"date":"2024-08-28T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T20:57:41","slug":"829-the-passion-of-st-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=15283","title":{"rendered":"8\/29  The Passion of St. John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/S_St-John-the-Baptist-Beheading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15284\" src=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/S_St-John-the-Baptist-Beheading-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"S_St John the Baptist Beheading\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/S_St-John-the-Baptist-Beheading-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/S_St-John-the-Baptist-Beheading.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>Passion of St. John the Baptist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having solemnized on June 24th the joyous birth of St. John the Baptist, the Church\u00a0today honors his glorious birth in Heaven. \u00a0Excepting the Blessed Virgin, he is the only Saint whose temporal birthday is observed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John the Precursor, who had passed thirty years in the desert where he had flourished like the palm-tree and grown like the cedar of Lebanon, had the courage to openly reproach Herod which the scandal of his illegitimate union with Herodias, his sister-in-law, whose husband Philip, was still alive. \u00a0<em>&#8220;It is against the law,&#8221; <\/em>he said to the king,<em> &#8220;for you to take the wife of your brother.&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0Herodias forced Herod to imprison him, and used an unexpected opportunity to obtain through her daughter Salome the beheading of the Saint who thwarted her criminal passion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day St. John completes his mission, adding the testimony of his martyrdom to the testimony he gave to Christ at His Baptism. \u00a0St. John was put to death towards the Passover, one year before the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but the anniversary is solemnized on the day when St. John&#8217;s\u00a0venerable head was found at Emesa, in Syria, in\u00a0453 AD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>6\/5\/05 \u2013 Vol. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This morning, on coming, blessed Jesus told me:\u00a0 <strong>\u201cMy daughter, crosses, mortifications, are as many baptismal founts, and any kind of cross which is dipped in the thought of my Passion loses half of its bitterness and its weight decreases by half.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong> And He disappeared like a flash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passion of St. John the Baptist Having solemnized on June 24th the joyous birth of St. John the Baptist, the Church\u00a0today honors his glorious birth in Heaven. \u00a0Excepting the Blessed Virgin, he is the only Saint whose temporal birthday is &hellip; 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