{"id":26613,"date":"2011-08-29T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/beheading-of-saint-john-the-ba-1\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:54:55","slug":"beheading-of-saint-john-the-ba-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/beheading-of-saint-john-the-ba-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Beheading of Saint John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Beheading<\/a>O God, who willed that Saint John the Baptist should
\ngo ahead of your Son both in birth and in death, grant that as he died a Martyr
\nfor truth and justice, we, too, may fight hard for the confession of what you
\nteach.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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There is no
\ndoubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment and chains as a witness to our
\nRedeemer, whose forerunner he was, and gave his life for him. His persecutor
\nhad demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep
\nsilent about the truth. Nevertheless, he died for Christ. Does Christ not say:
\n“I am the truth”? Therefore, because John shed his blood for the truth,
\nhe surely died for Christ. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Through his birth, preaching and baptizing, he bore
\nwitness to the coming birth, preaching and baptism of Christ, and by his own
\nsuffering he showed that Christ also would suffer. Such was the quality and
\nstrength of the man who accepted the end of this present life by shedding his
\nblood after the long imprisonment. He preached the freedom of heavenly peace,
\nyet was thrown into irons by ungodly men. He was locked away in the darkness of
\nprison, though he came bearing witness to the Light of life and deserved to be
\ncalled a bright and shining lamp by that Light itself, which is Christ.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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Father Pius Parsch<\/span><\/div>\n
The Church’s Year of Grace<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O God, who willed that Saint John the Baptist should go ahead of your Son both in birth and in death, grant that as he died a Martyr for truth and justice, we, too, may fight hard for the confession of what you teach. There is no doubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment and chains … Continue reading Beheading of Saint John the Baptist<\/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":[1710,1828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26613"}],"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=26613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}