{"id":24853,"date":"2009-08-20T05:45:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T05:45:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T09:45:16","slug":"saint-bernard-of-clairvaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bernard of Clairvaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Vision%20of%20St%20Bernard%20with%20Sts%20Benedict%20%26%20John%20Evan%20Fra%20Bartolomeo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px; FLOAT: right\" class=\"mt-image-right\" alt=\"Vision of St Bernard with Sts Benedict &amp; John Evan Fra Bartolomeo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Vision%20of%20St%20Bernard%20with%20Sts%20Benedict%20&amp;%20John%20Evan%20Fra%20Bartolomeo-thumb-250x292.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Bernard, the mellifluous Doctor, a friend of the Spouse, wonderful herald of the Virgin Mary, shepherd in this bright vale, did shine brilliantly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>O God, Who did give Thy people blessed Bernard as a minister of eternal salvation, we beseech Thee; grant that we may deserve to have him as an intercessor in heaven, whom we had as a teacher of life on earth.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Take away free will, and there is nothing left to be saved. Take away grace, and there is no way of saving. Salvation can only be accomplished when both cooperate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard, the mellifluous Doctor, a friend of the Spouse, wonderful herald of the Virgin Mary, shepherd in this bright vale, did shine brilliantly. O God, Who did give Thy people blessed Bernard as a minister of eternal salvation, we beseech Thee; grant that we may deserve to have him as an intercessor in heaven, whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux<\/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":[28],"tags":[1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853"}],"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=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}