{"id":24347,"date":"2009-02-19T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-encounter-with-christ\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:30:00","slug":"the-encounter-with-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-encounter-with-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The encounter with Christ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><em>Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, in his weekly article on the forthcoming Sunday Scriptures, &#8220;To What Lengths Are We Willing to Go to Encounter Jesus?&#8221; asks:<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Do we share the paralytic man&#8217;s faith in today&#8217;s Gospel? Do we have the chutzpah, creativity, perseverance and persistence of his friends to bring someone to Christ? To what lengths are we willing to go to encounter Jesus? How much are we willing to sacrifice so that our friends, too, might hear his saving word and experience the Lord&#8217;s healing touch and presence?<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Find the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><em>AND the answer is? What does your time doing Lectio Divina reveal to you?<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, in his weekly article on the forthcoming Sunday Scriptures, &#8220;To What Lengths Are We Willing to Go to Encounter Jesus?&#8221; asks: &nbsp; Do we share the paralytic man&#8217;s faith in today&#8217;s Gospel? Do we have the chutzpah, creativity, perseverance and persistence of his friends to bring someone to Christ? To what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-encounter-with-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The encounter with Christ?<\/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":[50,21],"tags":[1790,1719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347"}],"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=24347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}