{"id":74025,"date":"2018-10-01T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74025"},"modified":"2018-10-01T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:25:19","slug":"food-for-thought-from-therese-of-lisieux-for-her-feast-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74025","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from Therese of Lisieux for her Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did Jesus love His disciples and why did He love them? Ah! It was not their natural qualities that could have attracted Him, since there was between Him and them an infinite distance. He was knowledge, Eternal Wisdom, while they were poor ignorant fishermen filled with earthly thoughts. And still Jesus called them his friends, His brothers. He desires to see them reign with Him in the kingdom of His Father, and to open that kingdom to them He wills to die on the cross, for He said: \u201d\u02dcGreater love than this no man has than that he lay down his life for his friends.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLove appeared to me to be the hinge for my vocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; St. Therese of Lisieux <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wtqk7qOHmF\">pic.twitter.com\/Wtqk7qOHmF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Msgr Brian Bransfield (@BrianBransfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBransfield\/status\/1046712163811950592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Jesus love His disciples and why did He love them? Ah! It was not their natural qualities that could have attracted Him, since there was between Him and them an infinite distance. He was knowledge, Eternal Wisdom, while<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74025\">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":[186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025","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=74025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74027,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025\/revisions\/74027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}