{"id":34194,"date":"2016-10-30T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34194"},"modified":"2016-10-30T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T11:53:22","slug":"errant-sinner-and-endless-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/errant-sinner-and-endless-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Errant sinner and endless mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gods-Mercy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34195 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gods-Mercy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"gods-mercy\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gods-Mercy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gods-Mercy.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A reflection from St. Claude la Colombi\u00e8re on this\u00a031st Sunday through the Church Year:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than be cast down by realizing your failures, to have a strong and boundless conviction of the Creator\u2019s goodness \u2013 that is trust worthy of God. It seems to me that confidence inspired by innocence and purity of life doesn\u2019t give great glory to God. Is God\u2019s mercy only able to save holy souls who\u2019ve never offended him? Surely the trust that gives the Lord the most honor is that of an errant sinner who is so convinced of God\u2019s endless mercy that all one\u2019s sins seem like a speck in comparison with that mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection from St. Claude la Colombi\u00e8re on this\u00a031st Sunday through the Church Year: \u201cRather than be cast down by realizing your failures, to have a strong and boundless conviction of the Creator\u2019s goodness \u2013 that is trust worthy of God. It seems to me that confidence inspired by innocence and purity of life doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/errant-sinner-and-endless-mercy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Errant sinner and endless mercy<\/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":[6],"tags":[32005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194"}],"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=34194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34196,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194\/revisions\/34196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}