{"id":17721,"date":"2013-02-13T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=17721"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:18:02","slug":"going-into-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/going-into-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Into the desert&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeofthetiber.com\/2013\/02\/11\/pope-michael-doesnt-know-what-all-the-commotion-is-about\/\">Ash Wednesday<\/a> and it marks the beginning of Lent in the Church&#8217;s liturgical year, a time of prayer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piercedhands.com\/10-reasons-we-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\">fasting<\/a> and\u00a0alms giving. \u00a0In the Blogosphere, you&#8217;ll also hear a lot of talk about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logosandmuse.com\/the-1-1-1-plan-for-lent-and-thoughts-on-mardi-gras\/\" target=\"_blank\">1-1-1 Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to take a bit of a break from publishing anything of my own for the next forty days (with just a few exceptions). Instead of regular blog entries, I have scheduled my favourite quotations from one of the\u00a0<a title=\"Reading List Update\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/reading-list-update\/\">most recent books<\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;ve finished,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Desert-Fathers-Christian-Classics\/dp\/0140447318\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360536310&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+Desert+Fathers%3A+Sayings+of+the+Early+Christian+Monks\">Sayings of the Desert Fathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ash-Wednesday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ash-Wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"Ash Wednesday\" width=\"427\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This means that I&#8217;ll I won&#8217;t be commenting on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeminorityreport.com\/2013\/02\/conclave-media-silly-season.html\" target=\"_blank\">secular media shenanigans<\/a>\u00a0concerning Pope Benedict&#8217;s resignation and the new Pope&#8217;s election. For this I&#8217;m actually quite thankful! As far as I&#8217;m concerned,\u00a0Cardinal Arinze has said all that needed to be said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06UP2qHCxWg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>God bless!<\/p>\n<p>Restless Pilgrim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ash Wednesday and it marks the beginning of Lent in the Church&#8217;s liturgical year, a time of prayer, fasting and\u00a0alms giving. \u00a0In the Blogosphere, you&#8217;ll also hear a lot of talk about the 1-1-1 Plan. I&#8217;ve decided to take a bit of a break from publishing anything of my own for the next forty days (with just a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1297,2015,1386,885,1916],"class_list":["post-17721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-ash-wednesday","tag-cardinal-arinze","tag-desert","tag-lent","tag-liturgical-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17721"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56682,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions\/56682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}