{"id":24635,"date":"2009-05-18T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/growing-christ-requires-openne\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:00:45","slug":"growing-christ-requires-openne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/growing-christ-requires-openne\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Christ requires openness to all reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment-->\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jesuit Fathers Campbell and McMahon write in their book, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Becoming a Person in the Whole Christ:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The essential foundation of our ability to become a person<br \/>\nlies in our ability to transcend isolation and to share ourselves as free gift<br \/>\nwith another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This capacity for openness to all of reality, the hallmark<br \/>\nof every spiritual being, is the essence of man as person, providing him with<br \/>\npotentialities for human growth that are unlimited. It is also the<br \/>\n&#8220;ground&#8221; of our capacity for religious experience, making it possible<br \/>\nfor God to give Himself to us through a sharing in His divine life, and<br \/>\nultimately in the fullness of open friendship with Him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesuit Fathers Campbell and McMahon write in their book, Becoming a Person in the Whole Christ: The essential foundation of our ability to become a person lies in our ability to transcend isolation and to share ourselves as free gift with another. This capacity for openness to all of reality, the hallmark of every spiritual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/growing-christ-requires-openne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing Christ requires openness to all reality<\/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":[32],"tags":[1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635"}],"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=24635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}