{"id":19072,"date":"2018-04-26T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=19072"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:02:24","slug":"say-no-to-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2018\/04\/26\/say-no-to-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Say No to Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18966\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2018\/01\/jonas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18966\" class=\"wp-image-18966 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2018\/01\/jonas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2018\/01\/jonas.png 750w, https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2018\/01\/jonas-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Translation: Stay Strong My Child<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We only get temper when we fight.<br \/>\nOur life is a battlefield, because, every day, we fight a hand-to-hand struggle with sin. It&#8217;s the testing we&#8217;ve been through. If we fight and win, we get tempered like the sweet steel that passes through the fire. If we yield to sin, we will always be soft and brittle steel that resists nothing because it is not tempered. We only get tempered when we fight and dominate sin in our own flesh. In other words, it is through this wonderful decision to dominate and overcome sin every day, that we become tempered.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you!<\/p>\n<p>Your brother, Monsignor Jonas Abib<br \/>\nFounder of the Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We only get temper when we fight. Our life is a battlefield, because, every day, we fight a hand-to-hand struggle with sin. It&#8217;s the testing we&#8217;ve been through. If we fight and win, we get tempered like the sweet steel&#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\/19072"}],"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=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}