{"id":27068,"date":"2012-07-09T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/the-encounter-with-christ-mean\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:29:28","slug":"the-encounter-with-christ-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/the-encounter-with-christ-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"The encounter with Christ means following a road through the dark valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">This love affair with Christ, this love story which is the whole of Monsignor Giussani&#8217;s life was however far from every superficial enthusiasm, from every vague romanticism. <u>Really seeing Christ<\/u>, he knew that to encounter Christ <u>means to follow Christ<\/u>. This encounter is a road, a journey, a journey that passes also&#8211;as we heard in the psalm&#8211;through the &#8220;valley of darkness.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Pope Benedict XVI<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This love affair with Christ, this love story which is the whole of Monsignor Giussani&#8217;s life was however far from every superficial enthusiasm, from every vague romanticism. Really seeing Christ, he knew that to encounter Christ means to follow Christ. This encounter is a road, a journey, a journey that passes also&#8211;as we heard in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/the-encounter-with-christ-mean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The encounter with Christ means following a road through the dark valley<\/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":[49,7],"tags":[32097,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068"}],"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=27068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}