{"id":17951,"date":"2016-08-22T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17951"},"modified":"2016-08-18T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:46:06","slug":"be-an-athlete-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/08\/22\/be-an-athlete-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Be An Athlete for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/03\/revista_eto001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14644 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/03\/revista_eto001.jpg\" alt=\"revista_eto001\" width=\"370\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/03\/revista_eto001.jpg 370w, https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/03\/revista_eto001-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a>In Brazil, we are inundated with the Olympic medals, with the best athletes in the world, with those who renounce a lifetime for a medal, whether it be gold, silver or bronze. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s very pretty to look at, it\u00a0powerful to read the emotion of those who had the opportunity to win, and I congratulate each one, because they have an austere life and deserve the title. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But, at the same time, I wonder: How about us Christians, are we fighting to achieve our victory, which is Heaven? Do we seek, through living a good life<\/span><span lang=\"en\">, for our incorruptible Crown, which is Heaven<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">St Paul already teaches us that we must run and strive to reach our goal, which is eternal salvation. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So today, I want to invite you to make this personal reflection: how is your life? Ask yourself: &#8220;Have I\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en\">done my best to make my goal?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m reflecting on my conduct, because I want to get into heaven. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">And you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In prayer for you,<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en\">ETO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eto.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/seja-atleta-de-cristo\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brazil, we are inundated with the Olympic medals, with the best athletes in the world, with those who renounce a lifetime for a medal, whether it be gold, silver or bronze. It&#8217;s very pretty to look at, it\u00a0powerful 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":[17044],"tags":[5011,16034,178935,22172,178867,22832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951"}],"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=17951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}