{"id":26782,"date":"2011-12-14T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/saint-john-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:31:00","slug":"saint-john-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/saint-john-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

The Church puts on our lips for the feast of John of the Cross which ought to fully orient our life in action:<\/div>\n
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“May I never boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14)<\/font>.<\/div>\n
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Today is the feast of the great Spanish Carmelite priest, mystic, and poet, Saint John of the Cross<\/a> (1542-91). John is also a Doctor of the Church. He’s most remembered for his writings and his work with Saint Teresa of Avila for reforming the Carmelite Order.<\/p>\n

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John of the Cross is widely regarded<\/a> as one of the best Spanish poets ever. He’s the author of the acclaimed Spiritual Cantical<\/i>, Dark Night of the Soul<\/i> and the Ascent of Mount Carmel<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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We pray…<\/div>\n
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O God, who gave the Priest Saint John an outstanding dedication to perfect self-denial and love of he Cross, grant that, by imitating him closely at all times, we may come to contemplate eternally your glory.<\/i><\/div>\n
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My soul is occupied,<\/div>\n
And all my substance is His service;<\/div>\n
Now I guard no flock,<\/div>\n
Nor have I any other employment:<\/div>\n
My sole occupation is love.<\/div>\n
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Spiritual Cantical<\/i>, 28<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Church puts on our lips for the feast of John of the Cross which ought to fully orient our life in action: “May I never boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14). Today is the feast … Continue reading Saint John the Cross<\/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":[45],"tags":[1775,1868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782"}],"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=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}