{"id":34712,"date":"2017-08-13T07:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34712"},"modified":"2017-08-13T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T11:12:12","slug":"34712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/34712\/","title":{"rendered":"Only the Lord can help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Peter-and-Jesus-walk-on-water-anonymous-Armenian-Museum-Isahan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34713 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Peter-and-Jesus-walk-on-water-anonymous-Armenian-Museum-Isahan-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Peter-and-Jesus-walk-on-water-anonymous-Armenian-Museum-Isahan-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Peter-and-Jesus-walk-on-water-anonymous-Armenian-Museum-Isahan.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today, on the 19th Sunday through the Church Year, we hear the gospel reading where\u00a0Jesus walks on the water. We are moving through the summer&#8230;and what the Church gives to us to meditate upon is keen these days.<\/p>\n<p>St. Augustine reminds us,\u00a0&#8220;If you feel your foot slipping beneath you, if you become a prey to doubt or realise that you are losing control, if, in a word, you begin to sink, say: Lord, I am drowning, save me! Only he who for your sake died in your fallen nature can save you from the death inherent in that fallen nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, I trust in you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on the 19th Sunday through the Church Year, we hear the gospel reading where\u00a0Jesus walks on the water. We are moving through the summer&#8230;and what the Church gives to us to meditate upon is keen these days. St. Augustine reminds us,\u00a0&#8220;If you feel your foot slipping beneath you, if you become a prey to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/34712\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Only the Lord can help<\/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":[21],"tags":[2103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712"}],"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=34712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34715,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions\/34715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}