{"id":3675,"date":"2009-09-11T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/ask-little-and-get-nothing\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T21:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:31:55","slug":"ask-little-and-get-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/ask-little-and-get-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask little and get nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Sant%20Antonio%20Abate%20%26%20San%20Paolo%20ermita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sant Antonio Abate &amp; San Paolo ermita.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2009\/09\/Sant Antonio Abate &amp; San Paolo ermita-thumb-450x302-4554.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The painting (David Teniers?) depicts Saint Anthony of Egypt and Saint Paul the Hermit deep in conversation about monastic observance.<\/small><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m reading the autobiographical memoirs of Father Michael O&#8217;Carroll, C.SS.P. during my meals.  Today, I came upon this exchange between Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father O&#8217;Carroll:<\/em><br \/>\n<u>Father O&#8217;Carroll<\/u>:  Well, Your Grace, if you want my honest opinion, I would prefer to hear some Protestants speaking about our religion than certain Catholic priests.  I would certainly prefer Malcolm Muggeridge to some of them.<br \/>\n<u>Archbishop McQuaid<\/u>:  Oh, I would agree with you, Father.  Did you read his review in last Sunday&#8217;s <em>Observor<\/em> of a new history of monasticism?  I learned the last sentence by heart.  I shall quote it:  &#8220;The early monastic founders asked everything of their followers and they got everything; the moderns ask little and they get nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The painting (David Teniers?) depicts Saint Anthony of Egypt and Saint Paul the Hermit deep in conversation about monastic observance. I&#8217;m reading the autobiographical memoirs of Father Michael O&#8217;Carroll, C.SS.P. during my meals. Today, I came upon this exchange between Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father O&#8217;Carroll: Father O&#8217;Carroll: Well, Your Grace, if you want <\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Xh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675"}],"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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}