{"id":15094,"date":"2014-08-01T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2014-06-25T04:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T09:51:38","slug":"be-imitators-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/08\/01\/be-imitators-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Imitators of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beloved, do not imitate what is bad, but what is good. Whomever does the good is of God, whomever does the bad does not see God<\/em>.&#8221; (3 John 11)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/05\/Escola_genovesa_-_Ceia_de_Ema\u00fas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14814\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/05\/Escola_genovesa_-_Ceia_de_Ema\u00fas.jpg\" alt=\"Escola_genovesa_-_Ceia_de_Ema\u00fas\" width=\"256\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>We are called to be imitators of Christ through our acts, we need to demonstrate the love that Jesus, first, demonstrated to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\">The Lord is alive and wants to live in us; therefore, we should allow the Holy Spirit to move our actions and thus, our actions to show Jesus in us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\">Today, we may decide to have new attitudes, to do the good in all situations, announcing the Lord with joy, peace and love for all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\">&#8220;<em>For, if you want true delights and to receive from me abundant consolation, despise all the mundane things and renounce all interior pleasures and for recompense you will have copious consolation<\/em>.&#8221; (from the Portuguese version of the book Imitation of Christ by the monk\u00a0Tom\u00e1s \u00e0 Kempis p.142)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\">Jesus, I trust in You!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\">Luzia Santiago<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4f4f4f\"><a href=\"http:\/\/luziasantiago.com\/index.php\/sejamos-imitadores-de-cristo\/\">Portuguese Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved, do not imitate what is bad, but what is good. Whomever does the good is of God, whomever does the bad does not see God.&#8221; (3 John 11) We are called to be imitators of Christ through our acts,&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094"}],"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=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15095,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions\/15095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}