{"id":24511,"date":"2009-04-08T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/not-only-the-passion-but-the-r\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:30:00","slug":"not-only-the-passion-but-the-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/not-only-the-passion-but-the-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Not only the Passion but the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Ambrose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"252\" alt=\"Ambrose.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Ambrose-thumb-200x252.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, reminds us of this: &#8216;We must observe not only the day of the Passion, but the day of the Resurrection as well. Thus, we will have a day of bitterness and a day of joy; on the one let us fast, on the other let us seek refreshment&#8230;During this Sacred Triduum&#8230;Christ suffered, rested and rose from the dead. Of that three day period he himself says: &#8216;Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up&#8221; (Epistle 23). <\/p>\n<p>Our Lenten observances, indeed our whole life of faith, have been a preparation for this celebration of the Lord&#8217;s Paschal Mystery, our redemption from sin. May all of us bear witness to this joy in our daily lives; not only now but all through the year. And may our celebration of the Triduum be a time to reflect on our redemption through Christ, the eternal gift to us sinners from God the Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, reminds us of this: &#8216;We must observe not only the day of the Passion, but the day of the Resurrection as well. Thus, we will have a day of bitterness and a day of joy; on the one let us fast, on the other let us seek refreshment&#8230;During this Sacred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/not-only-the-passion-but-the-r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not only the Passion but the Resurrection<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511"}],"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=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}