{"id":25984,"date":"2010-11-23T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/pope-saint-clement-i\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T19:07:24","slug":"pope-saint-clement-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/pope-saint-clement-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Saint Clement I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Clement%20I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/St Clement I-thumb-250x267-7746.jpg\" alt=\"St Clement I.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of\u00a0God. Life in immortality! Brightness in righteousness! Truth in full assurance! Faith in confidence! Temperance in holiness! And all this God has subjected to\u00a0our understandings: What therefore will those things be which he has prepared\u00a0for them that wait for him? Only the Creator and Father of spirits, the Most\u00a0Holy, knows both the greatness and beauty of them. Let us therefore strive with\u00a0all earnestness, that we may be found in the number of those that wait for him,\u00a0and that we may receive the reward which he has promised. But how, beloved,\u00a0shall we do this? We must fix our minds by faith towards God, and seek those\u00a0things that are pleasing and acceptable to him. We must perform those things\u00a0that are agreeable to his holy will and follow the way of truth, casting off\u00a0from us all unrighteousness and iniquity, together with all covetousness,\u00a0strife, evil manners, deceit, whispering, detractions, all hatred of God, pride\u00a0and boasting, or vain-glory and ambition; For they that do these things are\u00a0odious to God, and not only they that do them, but also all such as approve of<br \/>\nthose that do them. (St Clement I to the Corinthians 17)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of\u00a0God. Life in immortality! Brightness in righteousness! Truth in full assurance! Faith in confidence! Temperance in holiness! And all this God has subjected to\u00a0our understandings: What therefore will those things be which he has prepared\u00a0for them that wait for him? Only the Creator and Father of spirits, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/pope-saint-clement-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Saint Clement I<\/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":[2],"tags":[3139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984"}],"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=25984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32934,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions\/32934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}