{"id":13623,"date":"2009-06-30T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/benedict_xvi_on_saint_paul_a_model_of_love_for_christ\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:49:59","slug":"benedict_xvi_on_saint_paul_a_model_of_love_for_christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13623","title":{"rendered":"Benedict XVI: On Saint Paul, a Model of Love for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul is an example of a priest who was completely identified with his ministry &#8212; just as the holy Cur\u00c3\u00a9 d&#8217;Ars would also be &#8212; conscious of possessing a priceless treasure, that is, the message of salvation, but in an &#8220;earthen vessel&#8221; (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:7); thus he is at the same time strong and humble, intimately persuaded that everything is God\u2019s doing, everything is grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The love of Christ possesses us,&#8221; the Apostle writes. This could well be the motto of every priest &#8212; that the Spirit compels (cf. Acts 20:22) him to be a faithful steward of the mysteries of God (cf. 1 Corinthians 4:1-2). The priest must belong totally to Christ and totally to the Church; to the latter he is called to dedicate himself with an undivided love, like a faithful husband to his bride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-26318?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul is an example of a priest who was completely identified with his ministry &#8212; just as the holy Cur\u00c3\u00a9 d&#8217;Ars would also be &#8212; conscious of possessing a priceless treasure, that is, the message of salvation, but in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13623\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,435,154,184,636,364,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}