{"id":4977,"date":"2013-09-25T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2013-09-26T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T04:22:44","slug":"father-blake-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/father-blake-gets-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Blake gets it right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messa_san_gregorio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4978\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/father-blake-gets-it-right\/messa_san_gregorio\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messa_san_gregorio.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"347,553\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"messa_san_gregorio\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messa_san_gregorio.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messa_san_gregorio.jpg\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4978\" alt=\"messa_san_gregorio\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messa_san_gregorio.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It isn&#8217;t the priest but Christ who comes to save the world; if he is fortunate on a few occasions in his priesthood, when he doesn&#8217;t get in the way, he might be the occasion of Grace, even a great outpouring of God&#8217;s Grace.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason I love the old Rite, why I celebrate Mass facing the same direction as my people, why I think vestments are important, why I prefer hearing Confessions behind a grill, why, if there is a choice between the words of the Church and mine or others, I prefer the Church&#8217;s words. This is why I question my practice of preaching at every OF Mass I celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>It is Jesus who brings Salvation, not the priest, bishop or pope. A priest&#8217;s spiritual maturity comes when he realises he is an unprofitable servant. . . . Something seems to have gone awry when flawed, sinful human beings are given a place where they can become a barrier rather than a bridge between God and his people. A mature Catholic is one who realises the Church is God&#8217;s not ours, and everything depends on him, not us.<\/p>\n<p>The problem comes when we cannot perceive the supernatural and its importance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/marymagdalen.blogspot.ie\/\">Father Ray Blake&#8217;s Blog<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It isn&#8217;t the priest but Christ who comes to save the world; if he is fortunate on a few occasions in his priesthood, when he doesn&#8217;t get in the way, he might be the occasion of Grace, even a great outpouring of God&#8217;s Grace. This is the reason I love the old Rite, why I <\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priesthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-1ih","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"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=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}