{"id":33155,"date":"2016-02-07T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33155"},"modified":"2016-02-07T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T15:36:33","slug":"put-into-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/put-into-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Put into the deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33156 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Fishers of Men\" width=\"357\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fishers-of-Men.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>In the Ordinary Form of the Mass it is the 5th Sunday through the Year. The Gospel is Luke 5:1-11. In the Byzantine Church it is Cheesefare Sunday (also called forgiveness Sunday). The Byzantine Church prepares its faithful to move slowly into the Lenten observance by three weeks of growing more and more into prayer, fasting and giving alms. While the gospel readings for \u00a0the various liturgical rites may differ, it is always important to hear the lesson Jesus offers: follow me, watch what I do: put yourself at the mercy of God the Father and the holy desires of your will be made real which in turn will build God&#8217;s Kingdom. Lent is almost here. Will we put into the deep?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Church is called out into the deep, delving, as it were, into the profound mysteries of the heavens, into that depth concerning which the Apostle says, \u2018O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!\u2019 For this reason he says to Peter, \u2018Put out into the deep,\u2019 \u2013 that is to say, into the depths of reflection upon the divine generation. For what is more profound than what Peter says to the Lord, \u2018You are the Christ, the Son of the living God?\u2019\u201d &#8211;St. Maximus of Turin:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ordinary Form of the Mass it is the 5th Sunday through the Year. The Gospel is Luke 5:1-11. In the Byzantine Church it is Cheesefare Sunday (also called forgiveness Sunday). The Byzantine Church prepares its faithful to move slowly into the Lenten observance by three weeks of growing more and more into prayer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/put-into-the-deep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put into the deep<\/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":[2091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155"}],"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=33155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33157,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155\/revisions\/33157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}