{"id":43363,"date":"2014-08-15T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=43363"},"modified":"2014-08-15T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:34:10","slug":"feasting-on-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/feasting-on-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"Feasting On Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-43364\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Assumption.jpg\" alt=\"Assumption\" width=\"270\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Assumption.jpg 490w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Assumption-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Today is Friday, but there&#8217;ll be no fasting today because today is the Feast Day! Today we celebrate the Assumption\/Dormition of the Blessed Virgin. In case you were wondering, yes, it&#8217;s a Holy Day of Obligation\/Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for Mass today, I&#8217;d invite you read <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicdefense.blogspot.it\/2014\/08\/the-early-church-and-virgin-mary-st.html\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> from Joe Heschmeyer over at <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicdefense.blogspot.it\" target=\"_blank\">Shameless Popery<\/a>. Joe includes the text of a homily by St. Gregory the Wonder-Worker from the mid-200s..<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;When I remember the disobedience of Eve, I weep. But when I view the fruit of Mary, I am again renewed&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0For from Mary, the divine fountain of the ineffable Godhead, gushes forth grace and free gift of the Holy Spirit. From a single Holy Virgin the Pearl of much price proceeded, in order to make alive once more the first-created man that was dead through sin&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;Holy and wise in all things was the all-blessed Virgin; in all ways peerless among all nations, and unrivaled among women&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read more, thanks to Joe the entire homily is <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicdefense.blogspot.it\/2014\/08\/the-early-church-and-virgin-mary-st.html\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Friday, but there&#8217;ll be no fasting today because today is the Feast Day! Today we celebrate the Assumption\/Dormition of the Blessed Virgin. In case you were wondering, yes, it&#8217;s a Holy Day of Obligation\/Opportunity. To prepare for Mass today, I&#8217;d invite you read yesterday&#8217;s post from Joe Heschmeyer over at Shameless Popery. Joe includes the text of 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":[1406,2764,51,2640,2765],"class_list":["post-43363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-assumption","tag-dormition","tag-early-church-fathers","tag-mary","tag-st-gregory-the-wonder-worker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43363","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=43363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43375,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43363\/revisions\/43375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}