{"id":61,"date":"2006-02-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-02-19T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T22:01:00","slug":"seventh-sunday-in-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/seventh-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The first reading is from Isaiah and makes me think again of Rilke. Like how in the Duino Elegies he stops and asks things, e.g., &#8220;Do you not know yet?&#8221; Here, in Isaiah, the Lord asks &#8220;Do you not perceive it?&#8221; It being new things, in the desert a way, in the wasteland a river.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is totally incomprehensible for once. Not yes and no, but yes. Huh?<\/p>\n<p>But one of my favorite Gospel readings, from Mark, where the four men lower the paralytic down through the roof. It&#8217;s a wholly cinematic moment, one I always picture, with the crowds and shouting and yelling, and these guys totally imposing themselves on the Lord for the love of their friend, climbing up and ripping a hole in the roof and lowering him down. Way to go, guys.<\/p>\n<p>And so Monsignor explains to us our importance, as a community, for one another and to the church. One man couldn&#8217;t have carried the paralytic up to the roof, maybe not even two. It took all four. It takes all of us.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first reading is from Isaiah and makes me think again of Rilke. Like how in the Duino Elegies he stops and asks things, e.g., &#8220;Do you not know yet?&#8221; Here, in Isaiah, the Lord asks &#8220;Do you not perceive it?&#8221; It being new things, in the desert a way, in the wasteland a river. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/seventh-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}