{"id":972,"date":"2015-02-18T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-02-18T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:05:43","slug":"we-are-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/we-are-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remember, Man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&#8221; \u00a0With this simple but profound statement, Holy Mother Church reminds her children that this earthly life is not our goal. \u00a0We are destined for eternity and how we will spend it is the most momentous of subjects.<\/p>\n<p>This LENT, this &#8220;Losing Every Negative Thought,&#8221; let us offer our fasting and sacrifices for those Christians who are being persecuted to death by radical Islam around the world. \u00a0Let us not forget that there are more slaves TODAY that there have ever been in history! \u00a0Though evil and neglectful churchmen choose not even to talk about the modern martyrs of today, WE must always talk about them and pray for them. \u00a0Though the Vatican does not even name the countries in which these terrible things happen, WE will not join in contemptible silence. \u00a0WE speak truth to power. \u00a0We say &#8216;shame&#8217; and &#8216;have pity, O Lord, have pity on our brothers and sisters suffering for love of Thee!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/th-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-973\" src=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/th-11.jpeg\" alt=\"th-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remember, Man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&#8221; \u00a0With this simple but profound statement, Holy Mother Church reminds her children that this earthly life is not our goal. \u00a0We are destined for eternity and how we will spend it is the most momentous of subjects. This LENT, this &#8220;Losing Every Negative Thought,&#8221; let us offer our&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/we-are-dust\/\">(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":[54,556],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-holy-mother-church","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}