{"id":18614,"date":"2017-07-05T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18614"},"modified":"2017-05-22T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:59:38","slug":"the-mercy-of-god-embraces-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/07\/05\/the-mercy-of-god-embraces-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercy of God Embraces Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor_jonas_preaching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14381 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor_jonas_preaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor_jonas_preaching.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2014\/01\/monsignor_jonas_preaching-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>We need to take the mercy of God to the brothers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">See the great grace of the mercy of Jesus narrated in the Gospel of John, Chapter 20. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">After telling the Apostles &#8220;peace be with you&#8221;, Jesus breathed on them and said: <\/span><em><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;Receive the Holy Spirit. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">If you forgive sins they are forgiven; those you<\/span><span lang=\"en\">\u00a0retain, they are retained (Jn -23 20.22).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">There is the institution of the sacrament of Penance. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">That amazing grace for all of us! <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Imagine the biggest sinner, repented, goes to the priest and confesses his or her sins-the priest grants the penitent\u00a0absolution, the person is forgiven and, immediately, the SIN is forgotten by the Lord. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I can say that this is the great grace of God&#8217;s mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">We believe in the immense mercy of the Lord, and, therefore, receive his mercy. B<\/span><span lang=\"en\">ecause we received it, we are also messengers of divine mercy of the Lord. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So we have to take it to our brothers and sisters, the people of our House, our school, our work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Your brother,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Founder of the community Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/padrejonas.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/misericordia-de-deus-nos-abraca\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to take the mercy of God to the brothers See the great grace of the mercy of Jesus narrated in the Gospel of John, Chapter 20. After telling the Apostles &#8220;peace be with you&#8221;, Jesus breathed on them&#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\/18614"}],"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=18614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18615,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions\/18615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}