{"id":24602,"date":"2009-05-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/maternal-encouragement-of-the\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:00:00","slug":"maternal-encouragement-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/maternal-encouragement-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal encouragement of the Blessed Virgin Mary: May, the month of Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Asam-Assumption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Asam-Assumption.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Asam-Assumption-thumb-250x369.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"369\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">Mary helps us,<br \/>\nshe encourages us to ensure that every moment of our life is a step forward on<br \/>\nthis exodus, on this journey toward God. May she help us in this way to make<br \/>\nthe reality of heaven, God&#8217;s greatness, also present in the life of our world.<br \/>\nIs this not basically the paschal dynamism of the human being, of every person<br \/>\nwho wants to become heavenly, perfectly happy, by virtue of Christ&#8217;s<br \/>\nResurrection? And might this not be the beginning and anticipation of a<br \/>\nmovement that involves every human being and the entire cosmos? She, from whom<br \/>\nGod took his flesh and whose soul was pierced by a sword on Calvary, was<br \/>\nassociated first and uniquely in the mystery of this transformation for which<br \/>\nwe, also often pierced by the sword of suffering in this world, are all<br \/>\nstriving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Pope Benedict XVI, Homily on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the BVM, August 15, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary helps us, she encourages us to ensure that every moment of our life is a step forward on this exodus, on this journey toward God. May she help us in this way to make the reality of heaven, God&#8217;s greatness, also present in the life of our world. Is this not basically the paschal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/maternal-encouragement-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maternal encouragement of the Blessed Virgin Mary: May, the month of Mary<\/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":[26],"tags":[32088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602"}],"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=24602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}