{"id":488,"date":"2014-03-11T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/?p=488"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:45:04","slug":"488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/2014\/03\/11\/488\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash &#8211; dust  &#8211; earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" id=\"irc_mi\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn2\/t1\/s403x403\/1978611_614880181926125_652124998_n.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"227\" \/>Ash &#8211; dust\u00a0 &#8211; earth<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stuff of which we humans are:<br \/>\nnot<br \/>\nin our dreams and illusions<br \/>\nbut in our corporeal reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God says to Adam,<br \/>\nthe man par excellence:<br \/>\nYou are dust,<br \/>\nand to dust you will return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ash dust earth<br \/>\na brittle material<br \/>\ncrumbling transitory poor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The mirror,<br \/>\nwhich is held up to us on this day,<br \/>\nshows us our starting point:<br \/>\nthe lost paradise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The other one,<br \/>\nhe is held up to us in each Holy Mass,<br \/>\nshows us our target point:<br \/>\nthe promised paradise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ash<br \/>\nreminds us of our poverty and transience<br \/>\nand the cross reminds us,<br \/>\nthat especially the poor and mortal man<br \/>\nis called to be<br \/>\nSon of God, Daughter of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the time of ashes, of repentance<br \/>\nleads us<br \/>\nto life to hope to joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash &#8211; dust\u00a0 &#8211; earth The stuff of which we humans are: not in our dreams and illusions but in our corporeal reality. God says to Adam, the man par excellence: You are dust, and to dust you will return. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/2014\/03\/11\/488\/\"><span class=\"btn btn-default\">Continue Reading<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}