{"id":2542,"date":"2011-05-05T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:10:04","slug":"on-the-spiritua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/on-the-spiritua\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On The Spiritual Attack of our Converts and What to Do About It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Jennifer Fulwiler had a great article at the Register about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/jennifer-fulwiler\/\">the spiritual attacks converts may face<\/a>.  I promptly forwarded it to one of my favorite catechists; she commented that she&#8217;d also received it from two other people, and she would be SURE to tell her catechumens about it.<br \/>\nDear Monsignor Pope, who contributes to the Archdiocese of Washington&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2011\/05\/on-the-spiritual-attack-of-our-converts-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\">also saw that article:<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I must say, this article caused me to pause and repent. For I, who know better, have not made it a practice to speak to my Neophytes and Newly Received about this. That has to change. And I also need to extend longer care to those who have newly entered the Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I once read a book on the spiritual life in which the author warned that <strong>any <\/strong>attempt to grow in love of God could lead to spiritual attack.  (Maybe someday I&#8217;ll remember which book it was.)  So whether we&#8217;re new converts or old-timers who are trying to step it up a little &#8212; we need to be ready.<br \/>\nNow, have I experienced this myself?  I truly don&#8217;t know &#8212; I&#8217;d have to think about it.  What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Jennifer Fulwiler had a great article at the Register about the spiritual attacks converts may face. I promptly forwarded it to one of my favorite catechists; she commented that she&#8217;d also received it from two other people, and she would be SURE to tell her catechumens about it. Dear Monsignor Pope,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/on-the-spiritua\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On The Spiritual Attack of our Converts and What to Do About It&#8221;<\/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":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catechesis","category-the-christian-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}