{"id":8781,"date":"2012-01-05T01:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2012-01-02T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:23:37","slug":"cocaine-before-the-eucharist-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2012\/01\/05\/cocaine-before-the-eucharist-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine Before, the Eucharist Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/sobre_cleto.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8231\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/sobre_cleto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>My Encounter with Jesus Christ<\/p>\n<p>How can a person use marijuana and cocaine during a good time of their life and today this same person nourishes himself from the Eucharist? This transformation, this conversion happened to me. It is part of my life history!<\/p>\n<p>I was a proprietor of a bar, where the strength was in the barbeque and the cold beer.<\/p>\n<p>One day I stopped in front of the bar, and I looked to to the sky and said: &#8220;I need to give my life a new path, I need a woman to marry. And this woman has to be of the church!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If \u00a0I continued to look in the places that I attend, I will continue on the same path. In that moment I decided that I would go to mass imagining that I would meet there my future fianc\u00e9. This was my chat with God.<\/p>\n<p>I then went to mass, Sunday with a head filled with beer. I remained there looking at the women. Then I saw a young women who went to the microphone to give the announcements, one of which was an invitation to participate in an &#8220;experience of prayer&#8221; on the weekend. Immediately I thought: &#8220;I will go! I will have three days to be near the woman that I was already flirting with.&#8221; Arriving at the place where the retreat was, the woman was not there. &#8220;But there what happened was my personal encounter with Jesus Christ&#8221;, this was May 1994. In truth, I found that God thought of me before I thought of Him. Cleto needed to have his first encounter with God after encountering a woman. And from then my life began to change. It is now 17 years of making my head and my heart united with the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>The future begins today. Can you imagine the next decade, the next generation feeding itself from the Eucharist and sowing good? This is possible, beginning with you.<\/p>\n<div>This is the Way!<\/div>\n<div>Cleto Coelho<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Encounter with Jesus Christ How can a person use marijuana and cocaine during a good time of their life and today this same person nourishes himself from the Eucharist? This transformation, this conversion happened to me. It is part&#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":[28755,80859,30967,18230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781"}],"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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}