{"id":31589,"date":"2014-10-05T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31589"},"modified":"2014-10-05T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:44:49","slug":"the-lord-plants-the-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/the-lord-plants-the-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord plants the vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThroughout the Scriptures the Lord continually likens human souls to vines. He says for instance: \u2018My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside\u2019, and again: \u2018I planted a vineyard<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0and put a hedge around it\u2019. Clearly it is human souls that he calls his vineyard, and the hedge he has put around them is the security of his commandments and the protection of the angels, for \u2018the angels of the Lord will encamp around those who fear him\u2019. Moreover, by establishing in the church apostles in the first place, prophets in the second, and teachers in the third, he has surrounded us as though by a firmly planted palisade. In addition, the Lord has raised our thoughts to heaven by the examples of saints of past ages. He has kept them from sinking to the earth where they would deserve to be trampled on, and <strong>he wills that the bonds of love<\/strong>, like the tendrils of a vine, <strong>should attach us to our neighbors and make us rest on them<\/strong>, so that always climbing upward like vines growing on trees, we may reach the loftiest heights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A reflection from St. Basil for the\u00a027th Sunday through the year<br \/>\nMt 21:33-43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThroughout the Scriptures the Lord continually likens human souls to vines. He says for instance: \u2018My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside\u2019, and again: \u2018I planted a vineyard\u00a0and put a hedge around it\u2019. Clearly it is human souls that he calls his vineyard, and the hedge he has put around them is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/the-lord-plants-the-vineyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lord plants the vineyard<\/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":[17],"tags":[2805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589"}],"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=31589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31590,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions\/31590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}