{"id":2398,"date":"2006-10-29T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T09:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/the-rosary-hastening-to-the-springs\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T05:03:36","slug":"the-rosary-hastening-to-the-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/the-rosary-hastening-to-the-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rosary: Hastening to the Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Aves<\/em> of the Rosary are a stream of living water that <a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/river_path_waterfall_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/river_path_waterfall_2-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"river_path_waterfall_2.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>irrigate and purify the heart. One who perseveres in the prayer of the Rosary will begin to experience, through the intercession of the all\u2013pure Mother of God, the beatitude pronounced by Our Lord: &#8220;Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God&#8221; (Mt 5:8). The Rosary, a humble path of ceaseless prayer, is a sure means to purity of heart. It is a way of &#8220;hastening to the springs and of drawing from the wells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hasten to the springs, draw from the wells.<br \/>\nIn God is the wellspring of life,<br \/>\nA spring that can never fail.<br \/>\nIn his light is found a light that nothing can darken.<br \/>\nDesire that light which your eyes know not!<br \/>\nYour inward eye is preparing to see the light.<br \/>\nYour inward thirst burns to be quenched at the spring.<br \/>\nSaint Augustine, Commentary on Psalm 41:2<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aves of the Rosary are a stream of living water that irrigate and purify the heart. One who perseveres in the prayer of the Rosary will begin to experience, through the intercession of the all\u2013pure Mother of God, the beatitude pronounced by Our Lord: &#8220;Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rosary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-CG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11419,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}