{"id":23815,"date":"2014-03-03T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/lenten_penance_according_to_st\/"},"modified":"2013-07-27T00:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:41:42","slug":"lenten-penance-according-to-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/lenten-penance-according-to-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten penance according to St Augustine: fast from discord, and forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"

For anyone still deciding what to give up for Lent, (Ash Wednesday is around the corner) or even for those who have decided, here’s a great suggestion from Saint Augustine that may be helpful:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Before everything else, brothers and sisters, fast from quarrels and discord<\/b>…. If you want to shout, use the kind of shouting about which [Scripture] says, ‘With my voice I shouted to the Lord’ {Psalm 142.1}. That indeed is not a shout of quarreling, but of loving; not of flesh, but the heart….<\/span><\/p>\n

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Forgive<\/b>, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you’ {Luke 6.37-38}. These are the two wings of prayer, on which it flies to God; if you pardon the offender what has been committed, and give to the person in need.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Sermon 205, On the Beginning of Lent]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone still deciding what to give up for Lent, (Ash Wednesday is around the corner) or even for those who have decided, here’s a great suggestion from Saint Augustine that may be helpful: “Before everything else, brothers and sisters, fast from quarrels and discord…. If you want to shout, use the kind of shouting … Continue reading Lenten penance according to St Augustine: fast from discord, and forgive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1953,2103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27851,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/revisions\/27851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}