{"id":4671,"date":"2010-08-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T11:48:51","slug":"spiritual-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2010\/08\/10\/spiritual-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2010\/01\/243761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2692\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2010\/01\/243761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>To achieve spiritual progress, we need to recognize that we make mistakes, that we are not infallible. And that in each error we learn a lesson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Our pride, self sufficiency, vanity and perfectionism impede our accepting that we can grow, despite our mistakes and experiences from wrong choices.<\/p>\n<p>When we accept our weakness, as a child who in beginning to make his first steps, falls and gets up, so we are in the certain road to reach spiritual progress.<\/p>\n<p>St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no spiritual progress if one does not take the greatest benefit from lessons that come from previous experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Self control is retaken permanently from lived experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><span>Deus nos abencoe.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Marina Adamo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Marina Adamo with her husband Vinicius are New Song (Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova) Missionaries based in Cachoeira Paulista Brazil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/marinaadamo\/2010\/07\/10\/progresso-espiritual\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve spiritual progress, we need to recognize that we make mistakes, that we are not infallible. And that in each error we learn a lesson. Our pride, self sufficiency, vanity and perfectionism impede our accepting that we can grow,&#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":[25555,25556],"tags":[5011,6351,16034,17447,27343,18255,17154,33754,16179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671"}],"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=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}