{"id":32031,"date":"2015-02-15T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32031"},"modified":"2015-02-15T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:13:05","slug":"the-leper-teaches-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/the-leper-teaches-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leper teaches righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jesus-and-Leper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32032 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jesus-and-Leper-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus and Leper\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jesus-and-Leper-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jesus-and-Leper.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the final Sunday before the Great and Holy Season of Lent begins for the Latins on February 18 &#8211; Ash Wednesday. The gospel for today&#8217;s Mass is the Leper&#8217;s healing (Mark 1:40-45). The monks of St Mary&#8217;s Monastery (Petersham, MA) posted this quote which immediately struck my heart. I think I have my Lenten reflection &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>This leper is an excellent teacher of the right way to make petitions<\/strong>. He did not doubt the Lord\u2019s willingness through disbelief in his compassion, but neither did he take it for granted, for <strong>he knew the depths of his own sinfulness<\/strong>. Yet because he acknowledged that the Lord was able to cleanse him if he wished, we praise this declaration of firm faith just as we praise the Lord\u2019s mighty power. For obtaining a favor from God rightly depends as much on having <strong>a real living faith<\/strong> as on the exercise of the Creator\u2019s power and mercy.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paschasius Radbertus<br \/>\n6th Sunday through the Year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the final Sunday before the Great and Holy Season of Lent begins for the Latins on February 18 &#8211; Ash Wednesday. The gospel for today&#8217;s Mass is the Leper&#8217;s healing (Mark 1:40-45). The monks of St Mary&#8217;s Monastery (Petersham, MA) posted this quote which immediately struck my heart. I think I have my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/the-leper-teaches-righteousness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Leper teaches righteousness<\/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":[47],"tags":[2008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32031"}],"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=32031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32033,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32031\/revisions\/32033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}