{"id":56968,"date":"2015-03-22T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=56968"},"modified":"2015-03-22T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:06:16","slug":"my-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/my-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"My weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I spent this weekend sick in bed. It began with a sore throat Friday night and progressed to my head and chest through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m feeling better than I did, my voice still isn&#8217;t great, continuing to sound like Barry White, and I feel rather drained still. As such, I&#8217;m not feeling up to recording a\u00a0video today, sorry.\u00a0The next one will be posted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><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\/Ds2VWVR97J0?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>Today has been rather strange in that I haven&#8217;t been to Church. I&#8217;ve been trying to think of the last time I didn&#8217;t get to Mass\/Liturgy on a weekend and I think it&#8217;s got to be well over a decade. Every now and then I get into a discussion with a non-Catholic concerning the Catholic understanding of the necessity of going to Church, but honestly, if I could find a way to communicate how I currently feel, it would probably be far more compelling of an argument. Deprived of the Bread of Heaven, today seems&#8230;incomplete. I feel&#8230;hungry.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that God has held back the grace today. I have been able to offer up my discomfort for the many intentions of those around\u00a0me and it really hasn&#8217;t been that uncomfortable. I have spent last the time\u00a0listening to talks, reading books (God bless Peter Kreeft!) and spending time in what Matthew Kelly would call &#8220;The Classroom of Silence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of things that I had planned to do this weekend and I achieved very few of them. In the well-known story of &#8220;Mary &amp; Martha&#8221;, Martha busies herself and Mary sits at the Lord&#8217;s feet and listens and, for this, Jesus says that she chose &#8220;the better part&#8221;. Sometimes the Lord chooses &#8220;the better part&#8221; for us. He loves us like that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I spent this weekend sick in bed. It began with a sore throat Friday night and progressed to my head and chest through the weekend. Although I&#8217;m feeling better than I did, my voice still isn&#8217;t great, continuing to sound like Barry White, and I feel rather drained still. As such, I&#8217;m not feeling up to recording a\u00a0video today,<\/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":[1050,3152,245,3154,152,3153],"class_list":["post-56968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-illness","tag-mass-attendance","tag-peter-kreeft","tag-sickness","tag-sunday","tag-sunday-obligation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968","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=56968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56985,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968\/revisions\/56985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}