{"id":27831,"date":"2013-07-07T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/being-a-new-creation-in-christ\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T15:39:03","slug":"being-a-new-creation-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/being-a-new-creation-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a new creation in Christ Jesus is way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Christ%20feeding%20himself.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christ feeding himself.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/Christ feeding himself-thumb-300x249-14767.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; \">The Apostle urges the followers of Jesus Christ to allow His Word and life to penetrate hearts and transform lives: to live as a &#8220;new creation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); min-height: 15px; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">As Saint Ephrem of Syria taught, &#8220;Blessed the one who draws near with fear and trembling and dread to the spotless Mysteries of the Savior and has realized that he has received in himself eternal life.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><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(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Hence, wolves changed into sheep; sinners into disciples, zombies into human beings. Now that&#8217;s a new creation!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><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(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">The Holy Eucharist and the Divine Office are graces beyond compare.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apostle urges the followers of Jesus Christ to allow His Word and life to penetrate hearts and transform lives: to live as a &#8220;new creation.&#8221; As Saint Ephrem of Syria taught, &#8220;Blessed the one who draws near with fear and trembling and dread to the spotless Mysteries of the Savior and has realized that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/being-a-new-creation-in-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being a new creation in Christ Jesus is way of life<\/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":[3240,2448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27831"}],"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=27831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}