{"id":2487,"date":"2010-04-06T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2010-04-06T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:18:43","slug":"a-consecrated-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/a-consecrated-s\/","title":{"rendered":"A consecrated soul can only be desecrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cPriests have a power not of their own, and priests who abandon the priesthood carry with them a volatile power they cannot shed.&nbsp; A consecrated soul cannot be unconsecrated but only desecrated by pride and the guilt of pride.<br \/>\nAnd when a desecrated priest ceases to offer worthy sacrifice, he may start to require sacrifice; for as the priestly face turns from the Messiah it meets Moloch.<br \/>\n\u2026when a priest ceases to intercede at his altar between earth and heaven, an angel made miserable by its fall from heaven would persuade the priest to intercede between heaven and hell.\u201d &#8212; Fr. George Rutler. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicinformation.aquinasandmore.com\/2010\/04\/06\/fr-rutler-on-priestly-scandals\/\">HT:<\/a> James at Musings from a Catholic Bookstore.  He notes that Fr Rutler was writing about 19th century France, in <em>The Cur&eacute; D\u2019Ars Today<\/em>.  The relevance to today &#8212; and to every day &#8212; is frighteningly obvious.  Lord Jesus Christ, King of Mercy, protect Your priests!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPriests have a power not of their own, and priests who abandon the priesthood carry with them a volatile power they cannot shed.&nbsp; A consecrated soul cannot be unconsecrated but only desecrated by pride and the guilt of pride. And when a desecrated priest ceases to offer worthy sacrifice, he may start to require sacrifice;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/a-consecrated-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A consecrated soul can only be desecrated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,10],"tags":[204,205,206,207],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","category-commonplace-book","category-the-christian-life","tag-cure-of-ars","tag-john-vianney","tag-pope-benedict","tag-year-of-the-priest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}