{"id":28790,"date":"2013-10-16T08:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28790"},"modified":"2014-06-08T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:11:16","slug":"saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Margarer-Mary-and-the-Sacred-Heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28791 alignleft\" title=\"St Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Margarer-Mary-and-the-Sacred-Heart-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Margarer-Mary-and-the-Sacred-Heart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Margarer-Mary-and-the-Sacred-Heart.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the liturgical memorial of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. The Church proposes yet another fine example of love for our spiritual life. With the help of her confessor Saint Claude, Saint Margaret Mary sparked a renewal of dedicating Fridays to the Lord&#8217;s Crucifixion and a devotion to the Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n<p>As we know,\u00a0Jesus revealed to St Margaret Mary how deep and intense his love for the human race is. How shall we respond to his love?<\/p>\n<p>A prayer of consecration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-2\/\"><strong>to the Sacred Heart is found here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This poetic text by J. Michael Thompson gives perspective to the relationship Saint Margaret Mary points to:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Both blood and water came flowing in streams<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">from the opened side of the Redeemer:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 blood, which bought back all creation;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 water, gushing forth to endless life!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Let the righteous hasten, let not the sinner be fearful;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">the fountain of the Savior&#8217;s heart stands open endlessly:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 blood, which bought back all creation;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 water, gushing forth to endless life!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 blood, which bought back all creation;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 water, gushing forth to endless life!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the liturgical memorial of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. The Church proposes yet another fine example of love for our spiritual life. With the help of her confessor Saint Claude, Saint Margaret Mary sparked a renewal of dedicating Fridays to the Lord&#8217;s Crucifixion and a devotion to the Sacred Heart. As we know,\u00a0Jesus revealed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque<\/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":[51,2],"tags":[32098,1793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790"}],"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=28790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30978,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions\/30978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}