{"id":14531,"date":"2014-04-10T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=14531"},"modified":"2014-03-26T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:09:43","slug":"the-secret-is-to-live-sincerely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/04\/10\/the-secret-is-to-live-sincerely\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret is to Live Sincerely."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By Astolath from UK (Greek mask at Kayak\u00f6y  Uploaded by RaviC) [CC-BY-2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AGreek_mask_at_Kayakoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Greek mask at Kayakoy\" src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Greek_mask_at_Kayakoy.jpg\/256px-Greek_mask_at_Kayakoy.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">The word &#8220;sincere&#8221; \u00a0comes from\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;sem cera&#8221;. The ancient Greeks and Romans did theatre similar to modern theatre: a person ended up doing many characters. They brought characters only by bringing masks that were made of wax.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">&#8220;Sem cera&#8221; is to day, without a mask, without representation. We cannot be actors before God, we need to be sincere! We have to be true before the Lord, even before our weaknesses. St. Paul tells this in a beautiful way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">&#8220;Therefore, I delight in weakness, in insults, in constraints, in persecutions and in anguish for Christ! For when I am weak, then I am strong.&#8221; (II Cor 12:10)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">God is strong in you, therefore, He makes you strong. Do not be afraid of being sincere before the Lord, of confessing to Him your most secret sins. Do not be afraid that you have sinned but be afraid of not being sincere before God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your brother,<\/p>\n<p><b>Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cancaonova.com\/portal\/canais\/pejonas\/pejonas_msg_dia.php?id=26436\">Portuguese Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;sincere&#8221; \u00a0comes from\u00a0&#8220;sem cera&#8221;. The ancient Greeks and Romans did theatre similar to modern theatre: a person ended up doing many characters. They brought characters only by bringing masks that were made of wax. &#8220;Sem cera&#8221; is to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[5011,9801,141799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}