{"id":3865,"date":"2010-11-09T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/plus-dare-non-potuit\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:27:17","slug":"plus-dare-non-potuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/plus-dare-non-potuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus dare non potuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/St_Francis_Caracciolo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/St_Francis_Caracciolo-1-thumb-300x438-7589.jpg\" alt=\"St_Francis_Caracciolo-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The image depicts Saint Francesco Caracciolo (1563-1608) in prayer before the Most Blessed Sacrament. Saint Francesco Caracciolo is also the patron saint of Italian cooks; our kitchen is placed under his protection.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>A phrase attributed to Saint Augustine says, concerning the Most Holy Eucharist: <em>Deus cum esset omnipotens plus dare non potuit<\/em> &#8212;<br \/>\nGod being all-powerful could give no more than this.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus wishes to conquer the heart of every priest.<br \/>\nHe comes to His priest laden with all His gifts,<br \/>\nwith all that can draw His priests and win their friendship.<br \/>\nJesus is the first to give His Heart,<br \/>\nso as to be able to ask for the heart of His priest in return.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of love requires that all goods be held in common,<br \/>\nthat life be shared, day by day, hour by hour, and minute by minute,<br \/>\nthat every movement of the heart may find a response in the heart of the other.<\/p>\n<p>A priest held fast in the embrace of Eucharistic Love<br \/>\nwill tend, with all his might,<br \/>\nto a communion of life with Jesus,<br \/>\nand so, he will pray:<br \/>\nThou art here for me, Lord Jesus;<br \/>\nand I am here for Thee.<br \/>\nThou hast made Thyself all mine,<br \/>\nand I would make myself all Thine.<br \/>\nThou art all attentive to me,<br \/>\nand I would be all attentive to Thee.<br \/>\nThou hast turned Thy Face toward me,<br \/>\nand I would hold my face turned toward Thee.<br \/>\nLove of me has pierced Thy Heart;<br \/>\nwould that love of Thee would pierce my heart.<br \/>\nThou humblest Thyself even to seek my company;<br \/>\nhow can I not seek Thy company<br \/>\nWho hast done all in Thy power to be present to me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image depicts Saint Francesco Caracciolo (1563-1608) in prayer before the Most Blessed Sacrament. Saint Francesco Caracciolo is also the patron saint of Italian cooks; our kitchen is placed under his protection. A phrase attributed to Saint Augustine says, concerning the Most Holy Eucharist: Deus cum esset omnipotens plus dare non potuit &#8212; God being <\/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":[20,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-eucharist","category-priesthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-10l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865"}],"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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}