{"id":26873,"date":"2012-02-19T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/testifying-the-joy-of-christs\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T18:06:41","slug":"testifying-the-joy-of-christs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/testifying-the-joy-of-christs\/","title":{"rendered":"Testifying the joy of Christ&#8217;s love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">&#8220;God is <b>not isolation<\/b>, but glorious and joyful love, spreading outwards and radiant with light,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI told the assembled crowd gathered for Mass including the new cardinals. The diakonia (the service rendered) of the cardinals&#8217; task is &#8220;to bear witness to the joy of Christ&#8217;s love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">&#8220;Faith <b>without love<\/b> would no longer be an authentic Christian faith.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">~Pope Benedict XVI<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">19 February 2012<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God is not isolation, but glorious and joyful love, spreading outwards and radiant with light,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI told the assembled crowd gathered for Mass including the new cardinals. The diakonia (the service rendered) of the cardinals&#8217; task is &#8220;to bear witness to the joy of Christ&#8217;s love.&#8221; &#8220;Faith without love would no longer be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/testifying-the-joy-of-christs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testifying the joy of Christ&#8217;s love<\/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":[2036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873"}],"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=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}