{"id":524,"date":"2016-02-20T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-02-20T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:38:26","slug":"mother-of-perpetual-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/mother-of-perpetual-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Perpetual Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_a-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLPH_a\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_a-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_a.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_b-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLPH_b\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_b-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OLPH_b.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picked this up in a book that I got off eBay. \u00a0It is from the time when parish missions were a bit more popular than they are nowadays. \u00a0I attended a parish mission a year or two ago, and it wasn&#8217;t quite my cup of tea (nor was it really aimed at &#8220;me&#8221; <em>per se<\/em>, but seemed rather at re-Catholicizing lukewarm\/uneducated Catholics).<\/p>\n<p>However, this card is a good reference point for the basics of our spiritual life. \u00a0That is, I think, something that makes this card necessary in our day. \u00a0Folks have become so busy with non-religious things that, oftentimes, religion gets pushed to the background. \u00a0But, the religious life is a daily struggle, one that must be won over every day, until death. \u00a0Saints don&#8217;t just happen because they were born saintly. \u00a0This card is a good reminder of our daily minimum, and is slightly similar to what Fr. Larry Richards says &#8211; &#8220;No Bible, no breakfast. \u00a0No Bible, no bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked this up in a book that I got off eBay. \u00a0It is from the time when parish missions were a bit more popular than they are nowadays. \u00a0I attended a parish mission a year or two ago, and it wasn&#8217;t quite my cup of tea (nor was it really aimed at &#8220;me&#8221; per se, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-holycards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-8s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}