{"id":26910,"date":"2012-03-20T06:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T10:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/compunction-awakens-our-soul\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T06:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T10:16:41","slug":"compunction-awakens-our-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/compunction-awakens-our-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Compunction awakens our soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>149<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>852<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>7<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>1046<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment-->Compunction involves a moment of awakening, the first<br \/>\nglimmer of enlightenment, the dawning of a new day lived against a different<br \/>\nhorizon.&nbsp;St. John Cassian, one of Benedict&#8217;s principal sources, defines<br \/>\ncompunction as whatever can by God&#8217;s grace waken our lukewarm and sleepy souls<br \/>\n(Conferences 9:26)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This definition seems to envisage us living our spiritual<br \/>\nlives in a slumberous state of half-wakefulness. The grace of compunction is<br \/>\nthe transition to a state of fuller awareness.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The great difference between the<br \/>\nsaints and the rest of us is that they were spiritually awake more of the time<br \/>\nthan we are; they were alert to possibilities. It is because they went through<br \/>\nlife in a state of greater consciousness that they were more conscientious in<br \/>\ndoing good and avoiding evil.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We who stumble through life with many mistakes<br \/>\nand omissions admire their saintly deeds but without necessarily realizing that<br \/>\nperhaps we could imitate them more closely if our spiritual senses were not so<br \/>\ndrowsy&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Casey, OCSO<\/div>\n<div>The Road to Eternal Life<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compunction involves a moment of awakening, the first glimmer of enlightenment, the dawning of a new day lived against a different horizon.&nbsp;St. John Cassian, one of Benedict&#8217;s principal sources, defines compunction as whatever can by God&#8217;s grace waken our lukewarm and sleepy souls (Conferences 9:26) This definition seems to envisage us living our spiritual lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/compunction-awakens-our-soul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Compunction awakens our soul<\/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":[2940,2941,2036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910"}],"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=26910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}