{"id":18409,"date":"2017-04-04T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2017-03-04T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:26:16","slug":"18409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/04\/04\/18409\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Penance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><i>&#8220;In those days, presents John the Baptist, proclaiming in the Judean desert,&#8221; Repent: the kingdom of heaven approaching! &#8220;(Mt<\/i> 3.1 to 2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor-Jonas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14309 alignleft\" 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>Penance is not just mortification, it is not to stop eating something or to sleep on the floor.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\">Penance in Greek is &#8220;metanoia&#8221;, a change\u00a0in the person&#8217;s life.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"><b>It is to change the mentality, the feeling, it is to change life.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">Penance is a &#8220;turning inside out.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\">Better speaking, it&#8217;s a letting go inside out.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\">This is what John the Baptist came to announce: &#8220;Do penance, turn inside out, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\">If John the Baptist said this at that time, preparing the first coming of Jesus, imagine now, when we are on the verge of His second coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Your brother,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Founder of the Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/padrejonas.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/fazer-penitencia-querer-e-mudar-de-vida\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In those days, presents John the Baptist, proclaiming in the Judean desert,&#8221; Repent: the kingdom of heaven approaching! &#8220;(Mt 3.1 to 2). Penance is not just mortification, it is not to stop eating something or to sleep on the floor&#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":[141700],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409"}],"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=18409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}