{"id":15485,"date":"2014-11-14T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=15485"},"modified":"2014-10-20T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T00:36:24","slug":"be-wheat-not-tare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/11\/14\/be-wheat-not-tare\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Wheat Not Tare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor-Jonas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14309\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor-Jonas.jpg\" alt=\"monsignor Jonas\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor-Jonas.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor-Jonas-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>We are like wheat planted by the Lord, but we are surrounded by evil.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> For this reason, we only see the wheat near us and this gives us the impression that we are few in number and that evil is growing.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> But far from us there are\u00a0 a lot of\u00a0 plantations;<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> we are not seeing them, but they are plentiful, although they are scattered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Jesus tells us that we are the good seed and the bad seed\u00a0 is those who belong to the evil.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Unfortunately, people have given admittance to the devil;<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> some of innocence;<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> others to acquire wealth and riches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Work with and for God, for He alone can transform the weeds into wheat.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Maybe we weeds beside us, they are making others to sin.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> But although we do not see this, is the Lord who rules over all this &#8220;sea of \u200b\u200bmud&#8221;.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> He is victorious, but we need to fight, to do our part.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> The victory is certain, but we need to stand firm, and know that Christ is in our midst.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"> Your brother,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Founder of New Song Community<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/padrejonas.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/seja-trigos-e-nao-joio\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are like wheat planted by the Lord, but we are surrounded by evil. For this reason, we only see the wheat near us and this gives us the impression that we are few in number and that evil is&#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":[9791],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485"}],"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=15485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}