{"id":30555,"date":"2014-03-19T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30555"},"modified":"2015-11-22T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:25:21","slug":"saint-joseph-a-contemplative-of-pure-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/saint-joseph-a-contemplative-of-pure-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joseph&#8230;a contemplative of pure love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/St-Joseph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30556 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/St-Joseph-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Joseph\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/St-Joseph-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/St-Joseph.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;&#8230; the apparent tension between the active and the contemplative life finds an ideal harmony that is only possible for those who possess the perfection of charity. Following St. Augustine&#8217;s well-known distinction between the love of the truth and the practical demands of love, we can say that Joseph experienced both love of the truth-that pure contemplative love of the divine Truth which radiated from the humanity of Christ-<strong>and<\/strong> the demands of love-that equally pure and selfless love required for his vocation to safeguard and develop the humanity of Jesus, which was inseparably linked to his divinity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blessed John Paul II<br \/>\n<em>Guardian of the Redeemer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; the apparent tension between the active and the contemplative life finds an ideal harmony that is only possible for those who possess the perfection of charity. Following St. Augustine&#8217;s well-known distinction between the love of the truth and the practical demands of love, we can say that Joseph experienced both love of the truth-that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/saint-joseph-a-contemplative-of-pure-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Joseph&#8230;a contemplative of pure love<\/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":[2],"tags":[2011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555"}],"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=30555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32921,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions\/32921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}