{"id":32396,"date":"2015-07-16T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32396"},"modified":"2015-07-16T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:55:48","slug":"virgin-of-mt-carmel-teaches-complete-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/virgin-of-mt-carmel-teaches-complete-fidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin of Mt Carmel teaches complete fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Elijah-on-Mt-Carmel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-32397 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Elijah-on-Mt-Carmel-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elijah on Mt Carmel\" width=\"266\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Elijah-on-Mt-Carmel-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Elijah-on-Mt-Carmel.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>Saint John Paul II said in 2000: &#8220;As I look at these mountains, my thoughts turn today to Mount Carmel, praised in the Bible for its beauty. We are, in fact, celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. On that mountain, located in Israel near Haifa, the holy prophet Elijah strenuously defended the integrity and purity of the chosen people&#8217;s faith in the living God. On that same mountain some hermits gathered in the 12th century after Christ and dedicated themselves to contemplation and penance. The Carmelite Order arose from their spiritual experience.<\/p>\n<p>Walking with the Blessed Virgin, the model of complete fidelity to the Lord, we will fear no obstacles or difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by her motherly intercession, like Elijah we will be able to fulfill our vocation as authentic &#8220;prophets&#8221; of the Gospel in our time&#8230; May Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whom we call upon today with special devotion, help us tirelessly climb towards the summit of the mountain of holiness; \u00a0may she help us love nothing more than Christ, who reveals to the world the mystery of divine love and true human dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint John Paul II said in 2000: &#8220;As I look at these mountains, my thoughts turn today to Mount Carmel, praised in the Bible for its beauty. We are, in fact, celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. On that mountain, located in Israel near Haifa, the holy prophet Elijah strenuously defended the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/virgin-of-mt-carmel-teaches-complete-fidelity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virgin of Mt Carmel teaches complete fidelity<\/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":[26,72],"tags":[2074,2983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396"}],"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=32396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32398,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396\/revisions\/32398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}