{"id":20365,"date":"2013-12-06T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20365"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:20:02","slug":"useful-and-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/useful-and-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful and necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Cassian said, &#8220;We came from Palestine to Egypt, and visited one of the hermits. After he had welcomed us, we asked him, &#8220;When you receive guests, why don&#8217;t you fast? In Palestine they do.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>He answered, &#8220;Fasting is always possible but I cannot keep you here for ever. Fasting is useful and necessary, but we can choose to fast or not fast. God&#8217;s law demands from us perfect love. I receive Christ when I receive you, so I must do all I can to show you love. When I have said goodbye to you, I can take up my rule of fasting again. &#8220;The sons of the bridegroom cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them; when he is taken from them, then they can fast&#8221; (Matt 9:15).&#8221;&#8216;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassian said, &#8220;We came from Palestine to Egypt, and visited one of the hermits. After he had welcomed us, we asked him, &#8220;When you receive guests, why don&#8217;t you fast? In Palestine they do.&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Fasting is always possible but I cannot keep you here for ever. Fasting is useful and necessary, but we can choose to fast or<\/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":[423],"tags":[2437,1891,802],"class_list":["post-20365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-cassian","tag-desert-fathers","tag-fasting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365","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=20365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23099,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}