{"id":38331,"date":"2013-05-16T21:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_pope_says_there_are_no_part-time_christians_faith_is_a_full-time_job\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:02:35","slug":"cns_pope_says_there_are_no_part-time_christians_faith_is_a_full-time_job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38331","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Pope says there are no part-time Christians; faith is a full-time job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics can&#8217;t put their faith on a part-time schedule or rely on it just for the moments they choose; being Christian is a full-time occupation, Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>If people don&#8217;t open their hearts to the Holy Spirit to let God purify and enlighten them, then &#8220;our being Christian will be superficial,&#8221; the pope said May 15 at his weekly general audience.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing and doing what God wants is not possible with mere human effort &#8212; it takes the transformative action of the Holy Spirit, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1302155.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics can&#8217;t put their faith on a part-time schedule or rely on it just for the moments they choose; being Christian is a full-time occupation, Pope Francis said. If people don&#8217;t open their hearts to the Holy Spirit to let<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38331\">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":[42,154,637,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331","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=38331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}