{"id":35454,"date":"2019-05-01T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35454"},"modified":"2019-05-01T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:20:25","slug":"may-is-the-month-of-the-blessed-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/may-is-the-month-of-the-blessed-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"May is the Month of the Blessed Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mary-punching-the-devil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35455 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mary-punching-the-devil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>We begin the month of May and therefore the month of Mary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correct Marian devotion guarantees to faith the coexistence of indispensable \u2018reason\u2019 with the equally indispensable \u2018reasons of the heart,\u2019 as Pascal would say. For the Church, man is neither mere reason nor mere feeling, he is the unity of these two dimensions. The head must reflect with lucidity, but the heart must be able to feel warmth: devotion to Mary (which \u2018avoids every false exaggeration on the one hand, and excessive narrow-mindedness in the contemplation of the surpassing dignity of the Mother of God on the other,\u2019 as the Council urges) thus assures the faith its full human dimension.\u201d (Vittorio Messori,\u00a0<em>The Ratzinger Report<\/em>, Ignatius Press, 1985)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Marian devotions will you take part in this month?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We begin the month of May and therefore the month of Mary. \u201cThe correct Marian devotion guarantees to faith the coexistence of indispensable \u2018reason\u2019 with the equally indispensable \u2018reasons of the heart,\u2019 as Pascal would say. For the Church, man is neither mere reason nor mere feeling, he is the unity of these two dimensions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/may-is-the-month-of-the-blessed-mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May is the Month of the Blessed Mother<\/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],"tags":[32088,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454"}],"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=35454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35456,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454\/revisions\/35456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}