{"id":1608,"date":"2015-11-03T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/fiat-voluntas-tuas\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:20:19","slug":"fiat-voluntas-tuas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/fiat-voluntas-tuas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat Voluntas Tuas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Faithful Finch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In February, I visited the Donatello exhibit at MOBIA in NYC. Monsignor Timothy Verdon spoke about each sculpture in depth. In addition to the Donatello sculptures, there was Giovanni d&#8217;Ambrogio&#8217;s &#8220;Gabriel of the Annunciation&#8221; and the &#8220;Virgin Mary of the Annunciation.&#8221; I found &#8220;Virgin Mary&#8221; especially provoking, as Mary appeared to be a young man.<\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Verdon explained that d&#8217;Ambrogio had sculpted her this way to communicate that God so loves and respects each and every person, whether man or woman, that if we will say, &#8220;yes&#8221; as Mary did, He will send His Son to live inside of us. How simple but profound!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5625272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gabriel-and-Virgin-Mary-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel and Virgin Mary\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/E_Uzju90d9Q\" 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 Faithful Finch In February, I visited the Donatello exhibit at MOBIA in NYC. Monsignor Timothy Verdon spoke about each sculpture in depth. In addition to the Donatello sculptures, there was Giovanni d&#8217;Ambrogio&#8217;s &#8220;Gabriel of the Annunciation&#8221; and the &#8220;Virgin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/fiat-voluntas-tuas\/\">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-1608","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\/1608","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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}