{"id":3326,"date":"2008-08-04T13:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/remembering-montmartre\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T23:00:04","slug":"remembering-montmartre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/remembering-montmartre\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Montmartre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/visite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/visite-thumb-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"visite.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Twenty-nine years ago today, a few young men prayed this Act of Consecration together in the crypt of the Basilica of Montmartre in Paris. I was among them. Our Lord is faithful, faithful even in the face of all our weaknesses, and infidelities, and betrayals. In the end, if we persevere in believing in His fidelity, His merciful love will triumph in our lives, and He will do in us and for us all that we, of and by ourselves, were unable to do.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nLord Jesus, we come to this holy place, to this Mount of Martyrs,<br \/>\nas so many saints have done,<br \/>\nto adore Thee, to thank Thee for the wonders of Thy love,<br \/>\nto implore Thy mercy and, above all,<br \/>\nto offer ourselves to Thy Heart. . . .<br \/>\nLord Jesus, we seek Thy Face;<br \/>\nwe consecrate ourselves to Thy Sacred Heart,<br \/>\npraying Thee so to unite us to Thyself<br \/>\nthat Thou wilt live, and suffer, and pray<br \/>\nin us and through us<br \/>\nfor the glory of the Father and the salvation of the world.<br \/>\nLord Jesus, unite us to Thy faithful and perfect &#8220;Yes&#8221; to the Father,<br \/>\nthat was consummated upon the Cross.<br \/>\nThus wilt Thou unite us to the Holy Sacrifice offered throughout the world,<br \/>\nand give us to discover anew the hidden fecundity of the Cross.<br \/>\nLord Jesus, we are certain of being heard<br \/>\nbecause we come to Thy Sacred Heart through the Heart of Mary<br \/>\nwhom Thou didst give us from the Cross to be our Mother.<br \/>\nMary is the faithful Virgin, Our Lady of Compassion,<br \/>\nstanding with Thy Beloved Disciple at the foot of the Cross.<br \/>\nLet us know how close to us she is, and how present in our life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine years ago today, a few young men prayed this Act of Consecration together in the crypt of the Basilica of Montmartre in Paris. I was among them. Our Lord is faithful, faithful even in the face of all our weaknesses, and infidelities, and betrayals. In the end, if we persevere in believing in His <\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-musings","category-sacred-heart-of-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-RE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326"}],"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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12330,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}