{"id":3792,"date":"2010-05-03T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/the-mother-and-the-face-of-the\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:20:25","slug":"the-mother-and-the-face-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/the-mother-and-the-face-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother and the Face of the Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/port_arthur_icon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"port_arthur_icon2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/port_arthur_icon2-thumb-300x480-6324.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"480\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>For an explanation of the Port Arthur Icon of the Triumph of the Theotokos, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross-hermitage.com\/pages\/portarthuricon.html\">here<\/a>.<\/small><br \/>\nThe Virgin Mary is she who more than any other contemplated God<br \/>\nin the human Face of Jesus.<br \/>\nShe saw Him as a newborn when, wrapped in swaddling clothes,<br \/>\nHe was placed in a manger;<br \/>\nshe saw Him when, just after his death,<br \/>\nthey took Him down from the cross,<br \/>\nwrapped Him in linen and placed Him in the sepulcher.<br \/>\nInside her was impressed the image of her martyred Son;<br \/>\nbut this image was then transfigured in the light of the Resurrection.<br \/>\nThus in Mary&#8217;s heart was carried the mystery of the Face of Christ,<br \/>\na mystery of death and of glory.<br \/>\nFrom her we can always learn how to look upon Jesus<br \/>\nwith a gaze of love and of faith,<br \/>\nto recognize in that human countenance, the Face of God.<br \/>\nPope Benedict XVI,<br \/>\nAt the <em>Regina Caeli<\/em>, 2 May 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an explanation of the Port Arthur Icon of the Triumph of the Theotokos, go here. The Virgin Mary is she who more than any other contemplated God in the human Face of Jesus. She saw Him as a newborn when, wrapped in swaddling clothes, He was placed in a manger; she saw Him when, <\/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":[14,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessed-virgin-mary","category-holy-face-of-jesus","category-pope-benedict-xvi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Za","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792"}],"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=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25990,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/25990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}