{"id":26998,"date":"2012-05-27T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/the-pentecost\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:39:42","slug":"the-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/the-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pentecost%20TGaddi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Pentecost TGaddi2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/05\/Pentecost TGaddi2-thumb-350x438-11746.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A blessed Pentecost!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Much can be said of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost but I will limit myself to a few items.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Spirit is understood and taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church as being:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;the soul of the Church&#8221;;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;the principle of being and life in the Church&#8230; [as Divine Being who] welds together the members of the Church among themselves and with Christ the head&#8221;;<br \/>\n3. as &#8220;Where the Church is, there is also the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace&#8221; (St Ignatius of Antioch);<br \/>\n4. &#8220;the heart of the Church (for Ecclesiae)&#8221; (Aquinas);<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>5. [the Spirit is the principle] that principle &#8230; that unites, quickens, teaches, sanctifies the Church, indwells in her, communicates the riches of the one to the others&#8221; (Aquinas).<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Come Holy Spirit, come through Mary.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blessed Pentecost! Much can be said of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost but I will limit myself to a few items. The Holy Spirit is understood and taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church as being: 1. &#8220;the soul of the Church&#8221;; 2. &#8220;the principle of being and life in the Church&#8230; [as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/the-pentecost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pentecost<\/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":[69],"tags":[2107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998"}],"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=26998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30955,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions\/30955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}