{"id":1661,"date":"2018-04-10T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:53","slug":"apostolic-exhortation-on-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Apostolic Exhortation on Holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read Pope Francis&#8217; new apostolic exhortation on &#8216;the call to holiness in today&#8217;s world&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rejoice and be glad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exhortation, entitled\u00a0<em>Gaudete et exsultate<\/em> (&#8216;Rejoice and be glad&#8217;), <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1663 alignright\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&amp;quot; segoe ui&amp;quot;,roboto,oxygen-sans,ubuntu,cantarell,&amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; height: 200px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 826px; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 8px 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pope-Francis-Writing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pope-Francis-Writing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pope-Francis-Writing.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>was given in Rome on the Solemnity of St Joseph, 19th March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The title is taken from the Gospel of Matthew (5:12); it is an instruction given by Jesus to those who are humiliated for His sake. Pope Francis&#8217; goal in writing this exhortation is to &#8220;repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunities&#8221; (<em>GE<\/em>, 2).<\/p>\n<p>Read the exhortation by clicking on the link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gaudete-et-Exsultate.pdf\">Gaudete et exsultate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Pope Francis&#8217; new apostolic exhortation on &#8216;the call to holiness in today&#8217;s world&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-1661","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-catholic-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-qN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pope-Francis-Writing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}