{"id":25778,"date":"2010-08-27T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/friends-are-a-path-to-god\/"},"modified":"2013-12-26T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T14:10:38","slug":"friends-are-a-path-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/friends-are-a-path-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends are a path to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/PAZ%20with%20Br%20Andre%20of%20Marmion%20August%2018%202010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" alt=\"PAZ with Br Andre of Marmion August 18 2010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/PAZ with Br Andre of Marmion August 18 2010-thumb-300x225-7112.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PAZ with Brother Andre of Marmion Abbey, August 18, 2010<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div>I spent time with friends recently. Visiting with friends is always a treat but it is also reassuring to re-affirm friendship and mutual love as I believe good (true) friends are a path to God. Read the Cistercian fathers on this theme. One such Cistercian Father caught my eye in recent years, Baldwin of Forde (1120-1190), said, &#8220;no one should be deluded on the love of God, no one should deceive himself: he who does not love his neighbor does not love God&#8221; <b>and<\/b> &#8220;So it is by loving one&#8217;s neighbor, through a bond of peace and a fetter of love, that the love of God and the unity of the Spirit are maintained in us&#8221; (<i>De vita coenobitica, seu communi<\/i>).<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Rembert%20Weakland%20%26%20PAZ-2%20August%202010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" alt=\"Rembert Weakland &amp; PAZ-2 August 2010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Rembert Weakland &amp; PAZ-2 August 2010-thumb-300x225-7114.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Archbishop Rembert George Weakland, OSB and PAZ, August 19, 2010<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Frs%20Stephen%20%26%20Leo%20August%202010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" alt=\"Frs Stephen &amp; Leo August 2010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Frs Stephen &amp; Leo August 2010-thumb-300x225-7116.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Father Stephen Hyrcyniak with Abbot Leo Ryska of St Benedict&#8217;s Abbey, August 21, 2010<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Fr%20Stephen%20%26%20PAZ%20August%202010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" alt=\"Fr Stephen &amp; PAZ August 2010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Fr Stephen &amp; PAZ August 2010-thumb-300x225-7118.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Father Stephen Hyrcyniak with PAZ, August 21, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAZ with Brother Andre of Marmion Abbey, August 18, 2010 I spent time with friends recently. Visiting with friends is always a treat but it is also reassuring to re-affirm friendship and mutual love as I believe good (true) friends are a path to God. Read the Cistercian fathers on this theme. One such Cistercian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/friends-are-a-path-to-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends are a path to God<\/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":[4],"tags":[2511,1988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778"}],"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=25778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29875,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions\/29875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}