{"id":25871,"date":"2011-03-31T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/thinking-about-the-sacrament\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:02:54","slug":"thinking-about-the-sacrament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/thinking-about-the-sacrament\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about the sacrament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no such thing as pure spirituality because there is no such thing as spirituality without reality. One needs a body to have a healing, water is required for holy water.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As Chesteron reminds us, the sacraments are both certain and incredible, both ideas are true and yet a paradox. The sacraments of the Church are&nbsp;solidly physical and wonderfully&nbsp;spiritual. The sacraments, as known by the Church, are ways of seeing (faith) the invisible. Any of the seven sacraments are philosophically the same as knowing the&nbsp;paradox of God: Spirit becoming flesh. Look at the greatest sacrament, the Eucharist, it is spirit and substance together, it is the Presence of the One who was crucified and risen, it&#8217;s healing and food and a pledge. And all these things are true we can never exhaust the meaning of the sacrament because of its divine reality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sacraments coming face to face with God, and face to face with ourselves. They reveal God&#8217;s face of love and mercy, and they also pull back the veils that cover our face. God comes and finds us through the sacraments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no such thing as pure spirituality because there is no such thing as spirituality without reality. One needs a body to have a healing, water is required for holy water. As Chesteron reminds us, the sacraments are both certain and incredible, both ideas are true and yet a paradox. The sacraments of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/thinking-about-the-sacrament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking about the sacrament<\/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":[17],"tags":[2129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871"}],"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=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}