{"id":7052,"date":"2011-04-14T01:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2011-03-13T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:49:44","slug":"time-of-silence-and-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/04\/14\/time-of-silence-and-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Time of Silence and Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/\/2009\/11\/luzia_amor_vencera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1808\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/\/2009\/11\/luzia_amor_vencera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s start\u00a0this\u00a0day\u00a0asking the\u00a0Lord&#8217;s the grace to exercise silence, of being\u00a0slow\u00a0to\u00a0speak\u00a0and\u00a0ready\u00a0to listen, especially\u00a0ready to\u00a0hear the\u00a0voice of\u00a0God\u00a0in\u00a0all situations,\u00a0even\u00a0in times\u00a0of\u00a0persecution\u00a0and struggle, as\u00a0the Prophet\u00a0Elijah,\u00a0amid\u00a0a\u00a0controversial\u00a0and difficult situation,\u00a0listened\u00a0and\u00a0obeyed\u00a0the\u00a0Lord&#8217;s voice promptly:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><em>&#8220;And\u00a0the\u00a0word\u00a0of\u00a0the Lord\u00a0came to\u00a0Elijah\u00a0saying,&#8217;Depart hence\u00a0and take\u00a0direction\u00a0from\u00a0the east.\u00a0Will hide\u00a0thyself by\u00a0the\u00a0torrent\u00a0of Caritas,\u00a0which\u00a0is across the\u00a0Jordan\u00a0&#8220;(I\u00a0Kings\u00a017.2-4).<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lord\u00a0gave\u00a0Elijah\u00a0a\u00a0concrete direction\u00a0in\u00a0the situation he\u00a0was living.\u00a0He\u00a0wants to\u00a0also\u00a0direct us\u00a0at all times\u00a0throughout\u00a0this\u00a0day, it is enough to be silent that God may speak to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">This should be our attitude: &#8220;Speak, Lord, your servant listens.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Jesus, teaches us silence in order that we may listen to His voice, with clarity.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus I trust in You!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luzia Santiago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/luziasantiago.com\/index.php\/tempo-de-silencio-e-oracao\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start\u00a0this\u00a0day\u00a0asking the\u00a0Lord&#8217;s the grace to exercise silence, of being\u00a0slow\u00a0to\u00a0speak\u00a0and\u00a0ready\u00a0to listen, especially\u00a0ready to\u00a0hear the\u00a0voice of\u00a0God\u00a0in\u00a0all situations,\u00a0even\u00a0in times\u00a0of\u00a0persecution\u00a0and struggle, as\u00a0the Prophet\u00a0Elijah,\u00a0amid\u00a0a\u00a0controversial\u00a0and difficult situation,\u00a0listened\u00a0and\u00a0obeyed\u00a0the\u00a0Lord&#8217;s voice promptly: &#8220;And\u00a0the\u00a0word\u00a0of\u00a0the Lord\u00a0came to\u00a0Elijah\u00a0saying,&#8217;Depart hence\u00a0and take\u00a0direction\u00a0from\u00a0the east.\u00a0Will hide\u00a0thyself by\u00a0the\u00a0torrent\u00a0of Caritas,\u00a0which\u00a0is across the\u00a0Jordan\u00a0&#8220;(I\u00a0Kings\u00a017.2-4). The Lord\u00a0gave\u00a0Elijah\u00a0a\u00a0concrete direction\u00a0in\u00a0the situation he\u00a0was&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052"}],"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=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}