{"id":1638,"date":"2018-03-11T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2018-03-11T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:39:36","slug":"laetare-sunday-daily-lenten-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2018\/03\/laetare-sunday-daily-lenten-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Laetare Sunday: Daily Lenten Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>COME AND REST\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come apart and rest a little.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was a kindly invitation of the loving Master; and the Apostles, weary with the strain of their earliest missionary endeavors, must have profited greatly by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come apart and rest a little.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To us also, as to the tired Apostles, Jesus often whispers a like invitation, and we should heed and answer it. Indeed, for the health of our souls worn with the neverending struggle with Satan and sin, we should spend some time in retreat at the feet of our Blessed Lord.<\/p>\n<p>For our own good, with generous frequency, we ought to turn our steps aside from the milling multitudes that throng the highways of life and, far from the maddening noise of business and pleasure, take ourselves to a quiet, prayerful retreat alone with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>In the silence it would do us good, here and hereafter, to pause and ponder the great eternal truths, the purpose of our life here below, time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fleeting brevity, the vastness of the unending life beyond the grave. Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s empty vanities will lose a deal of their dangerous attraction, and the tinsel toys that worldlings treasure will appear at their true worth, when viewed in the light of eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, life may have its sorrows, its ways may at times be furrowed deep with toil and pain, but never will the journey be too taxing, nor the strain of godly living unduly great if only from time to time we heed the voice of Jesus and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153come apart and rest a little\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at His sacred feet.<\/p>\n<p>O Divine Light, be my Light!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EPISTLE AND GOSPEL:<\/strong> Epistle and Gospel are the same as those of Laetare Sunday, below.<\/p>\n<table class=\"m_3572328822501984364mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"m_3572328822501984364mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"m_3572328822501984364mcnDividerBlockInner\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COME AND REST\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come apart and rest a little.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was a kindly invitation of the loving Master; and the Apostles, weary with the strain of their earliest missionary endeavors, must have profited greatly by it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come apart and rest a little.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To us also, as to the tired Apostles, Jesus often whispers a like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}