{"id":24628,"date":"2009-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/what-christ-won\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:00:00","slug":"what-christ-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/what-christ-won\/","title":{"rendered":"What Christ won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been<br \/>\ngiven hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the<br \/>\npresent, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads toward a<br \/>\ngoal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to<br \/>\njustify the effort of the journey. The promise of Christ is not only a reality<br \/>\nthat we await, but a real presence. (Benedict XVI)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/resurrection%20scene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"resurrection scene.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/resurrection scene-thumb-300x432.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"432\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We speak about how things ought to be or what is not going<br \/>\nwell and &#8220;we do not start from the affirmation that Christ has won the<br \/>\nvictory.&#8221; To say that Christ has won, that Christ has risen, signifies that the<br \/>\nmeaning of my life and of the world is present, already present, and time is<br \/>\nthe profound and mysterious working of its manifestation. (Luigi Giussani)<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the present, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads toward a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/what-christ-won\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Christ won<\/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":[69],"tags":[2030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628"}],"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=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}