{"id":32659,"date":"2015-09-18T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32659"},"modified":"2015-09-18T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:21:06","slug":"dont-ashamed-of-the-cross-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/dont-ashamed-of-the-cross-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t ashamed of the Cross of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cross-sacramentary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-32660 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cross-sacramentary-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"cross sacramentary\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cross-sacramentary-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cross-sacramentary.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>Friday is a day to recall the Signum Crucis &#8211;the sign of the Cross. I am aware that some are not comfortable with\u00a0crossing one\u2019s self in public for being self-conscious. It is, however, good public witness! We ought not be ashamed of making the sign of the Cross! To be ashamed of the sign of His Cross is to be ashamed of Him!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us, therefore, not be ashamed of the Cross of Christ; but though another hide it, do thou openly seal it upon thy forehead, that the devils may behold the royal sign and flee trembling far away. Make then this sign at eating and drinking, at sitting, at lying down, at rising up, at speaking, at walking: in a word, at every act.\u201d &#8211; St. Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem A.D. 386<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is a day to recall the Signum Crucis &#8211;the sign of the Cross. I am aware that some are not comfortable with\u00a0crossing one\u2019s self in public for being self-conscious. It is, however, good public witness! We ought not be ashamed of making the sign of the Cross! To be ashamed of the sign of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/dont-ashamed-of-the-cross-of-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t ashamed of the Cross of Christ<\/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":[40],"tags":[1757,32076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659"}],"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=32659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32661,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions\/32661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}