{"id":25742,"date":"2010-08-01T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/on-the-18th-sunday-through-the\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:23:33","slug":"on-the-18th-sunday-through-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/on-the-18th-sunday-through-the\/","title":{"rendered":"On the 18th Sunday through the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; \"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1280668862_1\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(220, 238, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/vanitas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vanitas.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/vanitas-thumb-225x210-7012.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"210\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>Vanity of vanities<\/span>! All things are vanity!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>All our striving and our toil are things we leave behind!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Each day and night we strive, we work<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>And still at the end will die:<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>If today you shall hear the&nbsp;<span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1280668862_2\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; \">voice of the Lord<\/span>,<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Then attend God&#8217;s gracious word!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Greed in all its forms brings death, and things cannot give life.<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Fools are we to grow rich for self and not grow rich with God!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>&#8220;Eat, drink, be merry,&#8221; calls the world,<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>And still at the end we die:<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>If today you shall hear the voice of the Lord,<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Then attend God&#8217;s gracious word!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Raised up now with Christ from death, we set our hearts on high;<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Hidden now with Christ is our life, to glory we shall rise!<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Fix now our hearts on things above,<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Yes, even though we die:<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>If today you shall hear the voice of the Lord,<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; \" \/>Then attend God&#8217;s gracious word!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!All our striving and our toil are things we leave behind!Each day and night we strive, we workAnd still at the end will die:If today you shall hear the&nbsp;voice of the Lord,Then attend God&#8217;s gracious word!Greed in all its forms brings death, and things cannot give life.Fools are we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/on-the-18th-sunday-through-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the 18th Sunday through the year<\/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":[32],"tags":[2497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742"}],"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=25742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}