{"id":23962,"date":"2008-09-05T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/first-friday-devotion-to-the-c\/"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:30:36","slug":"first-friday-devotion-to-the-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/first-friday-devotion-to-the-c\/","title":{"rendered":"First Friday: Devotion to the Cross &#038; the Sacred Heart of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/cross-thumb-250x238.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px;\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for cross.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2008\/09\/cross-thumb-250x238-thumb-250x238.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/span>The devotion to the Sacred Heart also reminds us that Jesus gave himself &#8220;with all his heart,&#8221; that is gladly and with enthusiasm. So we are told that good is to be done with joy, because &#8220;there is more joy in giving than in receiving&#8221; (Acts 20:35) and &#8220;God loves a cheerful giver&#8221; (2 Corinthians\u00a09:7). Nevertheless that does not derive from a simple human intention but is a grace that Christ himself gains for us, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit that makes all things easy and sustains us on our daily path, in trials and difficulties also. (Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., <em>30 Days<\/em>, August 2006)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devotion to the Sacred Heart also reminds us that Jesus gave himself &#8220;with all his heart,&#8221; that is gladly and with enthusiasm. So we are told that good is to be done with joy, because &#8220;there is more joy in giving than in receiving&#8221; (Acts 20:35) and &#8220;God loves a cheerful giver&#8221; (2 Corinthians\u00a09:7). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/first-friday-devotion-to-the-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Friday: Devotion to the Cross &#038; the Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/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":[17],"tags":[32098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962"}],"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=23962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30415,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions\/30415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}