{"id":24883,"date":"2009-08-19T21:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/a-vocation-means-growth-in-lov\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:10:53","slug":"a-vocation-means-growth-in-lov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/a-vocation-means-growth-in-lov\/","title":{"rendered":"A vocation means growth in love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">It is about a growth in love, in your life and in the<br \/>\nChurch. A calling in the Church is never a call to a job or function, but a<br \/>\ncall to a person. A vocation is an appeal to grow into a relation, a relation<br \/>\nwith God&#8217;s love. A call to the three evangelical counsels is a journey of<br \/>\ngrowing in love. This journey begins of course with less of His love, so that<br \/>\nmore of His love can be given to me. The One, who is more than everything else<br \/>\nin this world, must grow in me.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">(Homily at the investiture of novices &#8220;The<br \/>\nWork,&#8221; <i>Familia Spiritualis Opus<\/i>, Gregor Maria Hanke, OSB, Bishop of Eichst&auml;tt)<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is about a growth in love, in your life and in the Church. A calling in the Church is never a call to a job or function, but a call to a person. A vocation is an appeal to grow into a relation, a relation with God&#8217;s love. A call to the three evangelical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/a-vocation-means-growth-in-lov\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A vocation means growth in love<\/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":[11],"tags":[1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883"}],"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=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}