{"id":9765,"date":"2012-05-02T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2012-03-04T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T11:48:49","slug":"conversion-is-to-change-one%e2%80%99s-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2012\/05\/02\/conversion-is-to-change-one%e2%80%99s-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion is to Change One\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/\/2009\/11\/pe_jonas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2031\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/\/2009\/11\/pe_jonas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8220;In those days, John appeared, the Baptist, proclaiming in the desert of Judea: &#8216;Repent: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!&#8221; (Mt 3:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do penance&#8221; Penance is not only mortification, to not eat something, to sleep on the floor. Penance in greek is metanoia: A turning around in the life of a person. <strong>It is to change mentality, sentiment; it is to change one&#8217;s life .<\/strong><br \/>\nPenance is a turning oneself inside out. Better said: it is to allow oneself to be turned inside out. It was this that John the Baptist came to announce: &#8220;Do penance, turn yourselves inside out. Because the reign of God is at hand.&#8221; If John the Baptist said this in that time, preparing for the first coming of Jesus, imagine now. We are at the imminence of His second coming.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/strong><br \/>\nFounder of the Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community<\/p>\n<p>excerpt of the book <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/loja.cancaonova.com\/products\/13792-livro-eu-e-minha-casa-serviremos-ao-senhor\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0033cc\">&#8220;Eu e minha casa serviremos ao Senhor&#8221;<\/span><\/a> [Me and My House Will Serve the Lord] by Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancaonova.com\/portal\/canais\/pejonas\/pejonas_msg_dia.php?id=25305\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In those days, John appeared, the Baptist, proclaiming in the desert of Judea: &#8216;Repent: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!&#8221; (Mt 3:1-2) &#8220;Do penance&#8221; Penance is not only mortification, to not eat something, to sleep on the floor. Penance&#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":[9801,80910,33407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765"}],"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=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}