{"id":1175,"date":"2011-10-19T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimage.stblogs.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:25:32","slug":"a-word-from-a-fellow-pilgrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"A word from a fellow pilgrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\">Here&#8217;s one to lift your spirits, till next year. <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">I wanted to mention I had an opportunity last night, at a men&#8217;s group, to speak a little bit about my experience on the pilgrimage, being today is the feast day <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">[on the new calendar &#8211; ed.] <\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">of the North American martyrs.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Afterwards, one of the men asked me to email him the information for next year&#8217;s pilgrimage. So, I&#8217;m glad I had an opportunity to do my part.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">I was told at the beginning of the pilgrimage that it would change my life and sure enough it did.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">In Christ,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Larry<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\">Indeed, that&#8217;s what the pilgrimage is about: restoration of the soul to grace, by grace. That is the greatest of all transformations. It is the whole purpose, for example, even of the Transubstantiation at the Altar: to restore to the soul of fallen man, by nothing less than God&#8217;s real presence Himself, the likeness to God lost by sin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one to lift your spirits, till next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information","category-messages-to-pilgrims","category-messages-to-students","category-messages-to-the-sacred-clergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}