{"id":25885,"date":"2011-03-30T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/preparing-for-real-christian-l\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:27:02","slug":"preparing-for-real-christian-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/preparing-for-real-christian-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for (real) Christian life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good question: how does one prepare one self for Christian living? I&#8217;d suggest&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>look for ways to grow in virtue by practice and asking for the grace from Jesus;<\/li>\n<li>reduce time sitting in front of the TV, vedging-out; drinking, and eating bad food;<\/li>\n<li>be aware of the ways in which self-ish behavior is the norm and make changes;<\/li>\n<li>spend time doing lectio divina, praying the rosary and praying for enemies one&#8217;s conversion;<\/li>\n<li>seek ways to be generous, self-sacrificing by offer a sincere gift of self, self mastery relationship with the Lord.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many come to a conversion of life from within marriage (and some through religious vows and priesthood) but how we live our life right now is the question; it is also a matter of formation that will bear fruit later in life. Ask for the grace to live a real Christian life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good question: how does one prepare one self for Christian living? I&#8217;d suggest&nbsp; look for ways to grow in virtue by practice and asking for the grace from Jesus; reduce time sitting in front of the TV, vedging-out; drinking, and eating bad food; be aware of the ways in which self-ish behavior is the norm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/preparing-for-real-christian-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preparing for (real) Christian life<\/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":[1792,2521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25885"}],"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=25885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}