{"id":14,"date":"2008-02-11T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linode.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-02-11T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:26:16","slug":"two-good-homilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Two Good Homilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Father Adrian gave a homily on temptation.\u00a0 I found particularly memorable the idea that the devil may not tempt sinners nor wish them harm in the short term.\u00a0 Instead he desires their continuing scandalous example and may actually promote their temporal well being to continue.\u00a0 In contrast he tempts those who strive for the good in order to prevent their success.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be around when Father Fritz started the Gospel so I stayed for his homily also. \u00a0 Temptation is an idea.\u00a0 Sin is an act.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an important distinction.\u00a0 Temptation is an opportunity to avoid sin.\u00a0 Father also commented that the devil&#8217;s so full of hate he would wish Our Blessed Mother to be in Hell.\u00a0 Ponder the thought of your mother in Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Father Adrian gave a homily on temptation.\u00a0 I found particularly memorable the idea that the devil may not tempt sinners nor wish them harm in the short term.\u00a0 Instead he desires their continuing scandalous example and may actually promote their temporal well being to continue.\u00a0 In contrast he tempts those who strive for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saint-josephs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}