{"id":25182,"date":"2009-12-20T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-eucharist-is-the-actualiza\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T18:05:23","slug":"the-eucharist-is-the-actualiza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-eucharist-is-the-actualiza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eucharist is the actualization of God&#8217;s Kingdom today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Jerome%27s%20last%20Communin%20SBotticelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Jerome's last Communin SBotticelli.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/St Jerome's last Communin SBotticelli-thumb-185x135-5273.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"135\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The way of peace leads to the altar and into the<br \/>\nmystery of the Eucharist, the actualization of the Kingdom here and now. From<br \/>\nthe altar, the light of the Resurrection penetrates into all that, in our<br \/>\nlives, remains shadowy and locked. With the Virgin of the Annunciation, we have<br \/>\nonly to believe in Love and, believing, say faith&#8217;s simple &#8220;Yes.&#8221; Our &#8220;little<br \/>\nstrength&#8221; is of no consequence. Let us go in to the Eucharist to be<br \/>\novershadowed by the power of Love. Love will do the rest for &#8220;God is love&#8221; (1<br \/>\nJn 4:16 ) and &#8221; no word shall be impossible with God&#8221; (Lk 1:37). (MDMK)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way of peace leads to the altar and into the mystery of the Eucharist, the actualization of the Kingdom here and now. From the altar, the light of the Resurrection penetrates into all that, in our lives, remains shadowy and locked. With the Virgin of the Annunciation, we have only to believe in Love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-eucharist-is-the-actualiza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Eucharist is the actualization of God&#8217;s Kingdom today<\/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":[73],"tags":[32103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182"}],"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=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}