{"id":3708,"date":"2009-11-08T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/sins-knotty-entanglements\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T17:01:50","slug":"sins-knotty-entanglements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/sins-knotty-entanglements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin&#8217;s Knotty Entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/madonna.qui%20d%C3%A9fait%20les%20noeuds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/madonna.qui d\u00e9fait les noeuds-thumb-300x500.gif\" alt=\"madonna.qui d\u00e9fait les noeuds.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOn the <u>Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost<\/u> and the ferial days following it, we pray:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Absolve, quaesumus Domine, <\/em><em>tuorum delicta populorum: <\/em><em>ut a peccatorum nexibus, <\/em><em>quae pro nostra fragilitate contraximus, <\/em><em>tua benignitate liberemur.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Absolve, Thy people from their transgressions, we beseech Thee, O Lord, so that through Thy goodness, we may be set free from the entanglements of those sins which in our weakness we have committed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The verb, <em>absolvo<\/em>, can mean to loosen. The verb, <em>contraho<\/em>, can mean, among other things, to draw together tightly. Understood in this way, the Collect presents an astute psychology of sin. Sin is a knotty business, leading to hopelessly complex entanglements.<br \/>\nThere are, I think, in every life, sinful entanglements that only the patient and gentle hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary can loosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost and the ferial days following it, we pray: Absolve, quaesumus Domine, tuorum delicta populorum: ut a peccatorum nexibus, quae pro nostra fragilitate contraximus, tua benignitate liberemur. Absolve, Thy people from their transgressions, we beseech Thee, O Lord, so that through Thy goodness, we may be set free from the <\/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":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessed-virgin-mary","category-liturgical-texts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-XO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"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=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24585,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/24585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}