{"id":25457,"date":"2010-04-02T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/gods-friday\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:00:18","slug":"gods-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/gods-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><i><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/08crucif.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"508\" alt=\"Crucifixion of Christ\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/08crucif-thumb-275x508-6099.jpg\" width=\"275\" \/><\/a>For our sake he was crucified!<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN\">&nbsp; Jesus, at his death, embraced the tragic experience of death as it had been fashioned by our sins; <i>yet, in his death, Jesus filled death itself with Love<\/i>, he filled it with the presence of God.&nbsp; By Christ&#8217;s death, death itself was vanquished, for he filled death with the one power capable of cancelling the sin that had spawned it: Jesus filled death with Love!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">Through faith and Baptism, we have access to the death of Christ, to the mystery of the Love by which Christ himself tasted and conquered death &#8230; and this in turn becomes the first step of our journey back to God, a journey which will end at the moment of our own death, a death experienced in Christ and with Christ: in Love!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">~Archbishop Angelo Comastri<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our sake he was crucified!&nbsp; Jesus, at his death, embraced the tragic experience of death as it had been fashioned by our sins; yet, in his death, Jesus filled death itself with Love, he filled it with the presence of God.&nbsp; By Christ&#8217;s death, death itself was vanquished, for he filled death with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/gods-friday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God&#8217;s Friday<\/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":[1920,2049,2043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457"}],"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=25457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}