{"id":3523,"date":"2015-02-09T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/she-chose-the-best-part\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:15:30","slug":"she-chose-the-best-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/she-chose-the-best-part\/","title":{"rendered":"She Chose the Best Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/benschol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center alignright\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/benschol-thumb-400x315.jpg\" alt=\"benschol.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/span><strong>Preface of Saint Scholastica, Virgin<\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p>Truly it is right and just, our duty and our salvation,<br \/>\nalways and everywhere to give you thanks,<br \/>\nLord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,<br \/>\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Scholastica, obedient to the teaching of Saint Benedict, her brother,<br \/>\ninclined the ear of her heart to the voice of Christ<br \/>\nwho led her into the wilderness<br \/>\nand there espoused her in mercy and faithfulness.<\/p>\n<p>This holy virgin chose the best part,<br \/>\nand in preferring nothing to the love of Christ,<br \/>\nreached that love of yours which, being perfect,<br \/>\ndrove out all fear.<\/p>\n<p>When in earnest prayer she sought your help,<br \/>\nyou answered her outpouring of tears<br \/>\nwith a sudden downpour of rain amidst lightning and thunder<br \/>\nand, in this, you revealed the surpassing power of love.<\/p>\n<p>In the form of a dove,<br \/>\nher pure soul entered the glory of heaven;<br \/>\nseeing this her brother was filled with joy<br \/>\nand raised his voice in glad thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Now Saint Scholastica rejoices in you who called her,<br \/>\nand praises you forever with the powers of heaven,<br \/>\nwith whom we also raise our voices<br \/>\nin this, their endless hymn of praise:<\/p>\n<p><small>* Presented here for study purposes.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface of Saint Scholastica, Virgin* Truly it is right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord. Saint Scholastica, obedient to the teaching of Saint Benedict, her brother, inclined the ear of her heart to the voice of <\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-UP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523"}],"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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9334,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}