{"id":25248,"date":"2010-01-13T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T10:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers-1\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T10:56:48","slug":"saint-hilary-of-poitiers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Hilary of Poitiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Hilaire%20Poitiers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Hilaire Poitiers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/St Hilaire Poitiers-thumb-215x480-5442.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"480\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Saint Hilary worked tirelessly to defend the faith from wrong-thinking Christians, typically called heretics. What follows is Hilary&#8217;s teaching on God the Father.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It is the Father from whom everything that exists has been<br \/>\nformed. He is in Christ and through Christ the source of all things. Moreover,<br \/>\nHis being is in Himself and He does not derive what He is from anywhere else,<br \/>\nbut possesses what He is from Himself and in Himself. He is infinite because He<br \/>\nHimself is not in anything and all things are within Him; He is always outside<br \/>\nof space because He is not restricted; He is always before time because time<br \/>\ncomes from Him&#8230;. But, God is also present everywhere and is present in His<br \/>\nentirety wherever He is. Thus, He transcends the realm of understanding,<br \/>\noutside of whom nothing exists and of whom eternal being is always<br \/>\ncharacteristic. This is the true nature of the mystery of God; this is the name<br \/>\nof the impenetrable nature in the Father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(On the Trinity, Bk. 2, Ch.6; ML 10,<br \/>\n54; FC XXV, 39-40)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Liturgical prayer for Saint Hilary may be prayed <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2009\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Hilary worked tirelessly to defend the faith from wrong-thinking Christians, typically called heretics. What follows is Hilary&#8217;s teaching on God the Father. It is the Father from whom everything that exists has been formed. He is in Christ and through Christ the source of all things. Moreover, His being is in Himself and He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Hilary of Poitiers<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[1805,1710,2121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248"}],"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=25248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}