{"id":18680,"date":"2017-07-27T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18680"},"modified":"2017-07-18T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:47:31","slug":"the-importance-of-silence-to-hear-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/07\/27\/the-importance-of-silence-to-hear-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Silence to Hear the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<hgroup class=\"content-header\">\n<h2><span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Silence is important for listening to the Lord&#8217;s guidance<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p><a title=\"Adora\u00e7\u00e3o ao Sant\u00edssimo Sacramento no #PHN2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cancaonova\/35826533751\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4301\/35826533751_de7ccb3822.jpg\" alt=\"Adora\u00e7\u00e3o ao Sant\u00edssimo Sacramento no #PHN2017\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">Yesterday, I talked about our inner turmoil and how far it keeps us from God.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">Today, I want to meditate on the importance of silence.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">We must have a moment to be with God alone.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">Even spouses need this moment of solitude, for it is necessary to have their moment to listen to the Lord&#8217;s directives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">We should take days of rest, yes, but also retreats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">My brothers, our relationship with God is too important not to keep the flame of faith alive.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">If we turn away from Him, our faith will cool.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">That&#8217;s the secret!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">I always pray for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\">Your brother,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Wellington Garden (Eto)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"><strong>Co-founder of the Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community and administrator of the FJPII<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eto.cancaonova.com\/mensagem-do-dia\/a-importancia-do-silencio-para-ouvir-o-senhor\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence is important for listening to the Lord&#8217;s guidance Yesterday, I talked about our inner turmoil and how far it keeps us from God.\u00a0Today, I want to meditate on the importance of silence.\u00a0We must have a moment to be with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[5011,6351,178867,18252,221,18230,33885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680"}],"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=18680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18681,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}