{"id":31561,"date":"2014-10-03T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31561"},"modified":"2014-10-01T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T00:01:18","slug":"the-plan-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/the-plan-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The plan of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The plan of God is absolutely beyond us, always; it cannot be narrowed or imprisoned within the limits of our imagination. But one who is always willing to change everything according to what God wants\u2013and mark these words, what God wants through the circumstances, because, for Our Lady, three minutes, a minute before, it wasn\u2019t even imaginable that the Annunciation could happen\u2013circumstances, especially those that vex us the most, that are inevitable circumstances, these ar<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">e precisely the ones that mark the road of God; the person who is open to this is not attached to anything of his own, and he\u2019s free. So the first consequence is that he is attentive, extremely attentive to the needs of others. In fact, as soon as the Angel left, Our Lady decided right away, a girl of fourteen or fifteen years, to travel that very long journey\u2013one that when you go to Palestine you usually do by bus or by car\u2013of over 60 miles in the midst of that stony land, to go visit her cousin Elizabeth, because the Angel had told her that she was six months along with the child in her womb. The first thing she did was to share the need and the toil of her cousin Elizabeth, at very great sacrifice. When are you free? You\u2019re free when you\u2019re willing to do what God wants. Before the Infinite, only before the Infinite is man free, detached from himself. When you\u2019re like this, you\u2019re immediately ready to feel and meet the needs of others. What a lesson for us! These are the first characteristics of a man who lives life as a pilgrimage.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Luigi Giussani, from &#8220;Mary: Faith and Faithfulness&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The plan of God is absolutely beyond us, always; it cannot be narrowed or imprisoned within the limits of our imagination. But one who is always willing to change everything according to what God wants\u2013and mark these words, what God wants through the circumstances, because, for Our Lady, three minutes, a minute before, it wasn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/the-plan-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The plan of God<\/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":[26,49],"tags":[32088,32097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561"}],"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=31561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31562,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561\/revisions\/31562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}