{"id":1022,"date":"2015-06-01T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:11:35","slug":"the-secret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/the-secret-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I will tell you a secret<\/em>&#8230;\u00a0 You and I and all who are called to live the life of Love have a special name known only to God.\u00a0 &#8220;I know My sheep and mine know Me and I call each by name&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When it is time for us to pass from this life, this pilgrimage in the vale of tears, God whispers this name to the soul and the soul, unable to withstand the call, leaves the body to meet the Ineffable and Eternal Creator, there in His presence to give an account.\u00a0 May it be the great and magnificent homecoming it is meant to be and not a terror of judgement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Now, in this moment, while we can we make our plea to God in the Holy Name of Jesus, not just for ourselves, but for everyone we love and do not love.\u00a0 For each person that we know and do not know.\u00a0 For our family and friends, our benefactors and our enemies.\u00a0 For every one whose path we cross from the moment we are born to the day we die.\u00a0 We fly to the Sacred Heart of Jesus where all manner of sin and imperfection is forgiven and forgotten.\u00a0 Where the merits of Him Who alone loves us eternally, imparts these merits to us by grace and inexpressible kindness.<\/p>\n<p>United to His sacrifice, even the most minute actions become salvific and meritorious.\u00a0 The very breaths we breath, the steps we take, the blinking of an eye, the thoughts we think- everything is transformed for our benefit by the One Who made us.\u00a0 How marvelous and humbling is the Catholic Faith, however and in whatever tradition it is made manifest!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/th-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1023\" src=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/th-4.jpg\" alt=\"th-4\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will tell you a secret&#8230;\u00a0 You and I and all who are called to live the life of Love have a special name known only to God.\u00a0 &#8220;I know My sheep and mine know Me and I call each by name&#8230;&#8221; When it is time for us to pass from this life, this pilgrimage in the vale of tears,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/the-secret-2\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,190,117,418],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-catholic-faith","tag-holy-name","tag-one-who","tag-sacred-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}