{"id":27692,"date":"2013-04-29T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/without-perseverance-no-one-ca\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:55:06","slug":"without-perseverance-no-one-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/without-perseverance-no-one-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Without perseverance no one can please God, St Catherine of Siena taught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(25, 16, 6); \">Who we read impacts the way we live. Catherine of Siena, whom the Catholic Church honors today, has much to say to the modern person. In one of her letters we read the following, which ought to bolster our approach in our daily work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(25, 16, 6); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(25, 16, 6); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">To Sano Di Maco and&nbsp;All Her Other Sons in Siena: In the Name of Jesus Christ crucified&nbsp;and of sweet Mary:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(25, 16, 6); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(25, 16, 6); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Dearest sons in Christ sweet Jesus: I Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious Blood: with <u>desire to see you strong and persevering till the end of your life<\/u>. For I consider that <b>without perseverance no one can please God<\/b>, or receive the crown of reward. He who <u>perseveres is always strong<\/u>, and <u>fortitude makes him persevere<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we read impacts the way we live. Catherine of Siena, whom the Catholic Church honors today, has much to say to the modern person. In one of her letters we read the following, which ought to bolster our approach in our daily work. To Sano Di Maco and&nbsp;All Her Other Sons in Siena: In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/without-perseverance-no-one-ca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Without perseverance no one can please God, St Catherine of Siena taught<\/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":[3015,2036,2076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692"}],"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=27692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}