{"id":24739,"date":"2009-06-22T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/keep-your-relationship-with-go\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:53:32","slug":"keep-your-relationship-with-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/keep-your-relationship-with-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your relationship with God alive, even on vacation, pope said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Pope Benedict&#8217;s vacation advice from a recent general<br \/>\naudience: &#8220;We must set aside time in life for God, to open our life to God with<br \/>\na thought, a meditation, a small prayer and not to forget Sunday is the day of<br \/>\nthe Lord.&#8221; And in another place he said: &#8220;He who neglects contemplation is<br \/>\ndeprived of the vision of the light of God; he who is carried away with worry<br \/>\nand allows his thoughts to be crushed by the tumult of the things of the world<br \/>\nis condemned to the absolute impossibility of penetrating the secrets of the<br \/>\ninvisible God &#8230;While at work, with its frenetic rhythms, and during vacation,<br \/>\nwe have to reserve moments for God. [We have to] open our lives up to him,<br \/>\ndirecting a thought to him, a reflection, a brief prayer. And above all, we<br \/>\nmustn&#8217;t forget that Sunday is the day of Our Lord, the day of the liturgy, [the<br \/>\nday] to perceive in the beauty of our churches, in the sacred music and in the<br \/>\nWord of God, the same beauty of our God, allowing him to enter into our being.<br \/>\nOnly in this way is our life made great; it is truly made a life.&#8221;<\/span><!--EndFragment--><br \/>\n<!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict&#8217;s vacation advice from a recent general audience: &#8220;We must set aside time in life for God, to open our life to God with a thought, a meditation, a small prayer and not to forget Sunday is the day of the Lord.&#8221; And in another place he said: &#8220;He who neglects contemplation is deprived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/keep-your-relationship-with-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep your relationship with God alive, even on vacation, pope said<\/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":[7],"tags":[32081,2127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739"}],"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=24739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}