{"id":25358,"date":"2010-02-24T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/is-lent-a-time-of-healing-for\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:54:08","slug":"is-lent-a-time-of-healing-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/is-lent-a-time-of-healing-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lent a time of healing for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the Syriac Christian tradition the healing power of<br \/>\nChrist is presented to the faithful, by the Church, by knowing that the believing community of faith, is the Lord&#8217;s bride and our<br \/>\nmother. We know this experientially through the sacramental ministries of the priesthood. Saint Ephrem prays to Christ crucified and risen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">With three medicines<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You have cured our sickness;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Humanity was weak, suffering and failing;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You have strengthened it by you blessed bread,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You have consoled it with your sober wine,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And You have given it joy with your anointing.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lent is the springtime of our healing in mind, body and soul. Lent is a time to have the<br \/>\ngreat reversal happen: from weakness to strength, from sickness to health, from sinfulness to a<br \/>\nlife of grace. This is all possible in the confession of sins, the worthy<br \/>\nreception of the Holy Eucharist, and the luscious anointing of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\npour out over us.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Syriac Christian tradition the healing power of Christ is presented to the faithful, by the Church, by knowing that the believing community of faith, is the Lord&#8217;s bride and our mother. We know this experientially through the sacramental ministries of the priesthood. Saint Ephrem prays to Christ crucified and risen: With three medicines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/is-lent-a-time-of-healing-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Lent a time of healing for you?<\/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":[60],"tags":[1970,1953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358"}],"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=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}