{"id":25761,"date":"2010-08-09T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/holiness-is-a-disposition-of-t\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:25:52","slug":"holiness-is-a-disposition-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/holiness-is-a-disposition-of-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiness is a disposition of the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>Christian hope is not based on personal merit, nor<br \/>\nupon good works, nor good intentions<\/i>, for all these are too transitory, and too<br \/>\nutterly disproportionate to the attainment of God; rather, <u>our hope is based<br \/>\nupon God himself<\/u>, upon Christ the one Mediator and Savior.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">For hope not to<br \/>\nbecome rashness, it must obviously be accompanied by personal effort and<br \/>\ndiligence; still we must be convinced that all our good will and good works are<br \/>\nalways insufficient; <u>only God<\/u> can sanctify us, <u>only God<\/u> can raise us up to himself<br \/>\nand give us himself as our possession. <u>Only God<\/u>, the object of our hope, is<br \/>\nalso the support of hope, its buttress, its fulcrum.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">With this in mind St.<br \/>\nTherese of the Child Jesus wrote: <b>Sanctity<\/b> does not consist in this or that<br \/>\npractice; <b>it consists in a disposition of the heart<\/b> which make us humble and<br \/>\nlittle in the arms of God, conscious of our weakness, and confident to the<br \/>\npoint of audacity in the goodness of our Father (<i>Novissima Verba<\/i>, pg. 29).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>Divine<br \/>\nIntimacy<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian hope is not based on personal merit, nor upon good works, nor good intentions, for all these are too transitory, and too utterly disproportionate to the attainment of God; rather, our hope is based upon God himself, upon Christ the one Mediator and Savior. For hope not to become rashness, it must obviously be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/holiness-is-a-disposition-of-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiness is a disposition of the heart<\/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":[1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761"}],"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=25761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}