{"id":1236,"date":"2015-03-20T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/three-lenten-threads\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T07:00:49","slug":"three-lenten-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/three-lenten-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lenten Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I was listening at our Lauds service today. (I don&#8217;t always and am easily lured into thinking and re-thinking my own agenda.) But today, three phrases begged me to listen. From Luke 1, the Benedictus: <em>to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins; <\/em>the Lenten Reading for Wednesday: <em>Is not our Lord just now ready to bless you?<\/em> <em>To increase your faith, and love, and patience, and gentleness?<\/em> (Charles Wesley); and finally, the Collect for the Day: Y<em>ou crown the merits of the saints and pardon sinners when they repent. <\/em>Lent is power-packed with hope. Salvation, forgiveness, and the freedom to repent, open a corridor to Easter&#8217;s joy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4517756\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150311_090933-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/BD94yX9F8Bs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other I was listening at our Lauds service today. (I don&#8217;t always and am easily lured into thinking and re-thinking my own agenda.) But today, three phrases begged me to listen. From Luke 1, the Benedictus: to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/three-lenten-threads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}