{"id":4088,"date":"2018-06-13T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2018-06-13T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T04:28:12","slug":"catholic-faithwatch-saint-anthony-of-padua-pope-benedict-xvi-general-audience-2-10-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/catholic-faithwatch-saint-anthony-of-padua-pope-benedict-xvi-general-audience-2-10-10\/","title":{"rendered":"CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Saint Anthony of Padua” – Pope Benedict XVI General Audience 2.10.10"},"content":{"rendered":"

“… With his outstanding gifts of intelligence, balance, apostolic zeal and … mystic fervour, [St.] Anthony contributed significantly to the development of Franciscan spirituality. \u2026\u00a0 He dedicated himself … to the study of the Bible and of the Church Fathers, acquiring … theological knowledge … Anthony laid the foundations of Franciscan theology * * * he commented on … texts of Scripture presented by the Liturgy, using the patristic and medieval interpretation of the four senses: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical, which orients a person to eternal life. … Anthony proposes a true and proper itinerary of Christian life. * * * St. Anthony speaks of prayer as of a loving relationship that impels man to speak gently with the Lord, creating an ineffable joy that sweetly enfolds the soul in prayer. … prayer requires an atmosphere of silence … an interior experience that aims to remove the distractions caused by a soul’s anxieties, thereby creating silence in the soul itself. * * * … prayer is structured in four indispensable attitudes … obsecratio, oratio, postulatio, gratiarum actio. We might translate them in the following manner. The first step in prayer is confidently opening one’s heart to God; this is not merely accepting a word but opening one’s heart to God’s presence. Next, is speaking with him affectionately, seeing him present with oneself; then a very natural thing presenting our needs to him; and lastly, praising and thanking him. … we perceive … the role assigned to Divine Love which enters into the sphere of the affections, of the will and of the heart, and which is also the source from which flows a spiritual knowledge that surpasses all other knowledge. In fact, it is in loving that we come to know. \u2026 ‘Charity is the Ssoul of Faith, it gives it Life; without love, Faith dies’ … It is only the prayerful soul that can progress in spiritual life ….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“… With his outstanding gifts of intelligence, balance, apostolic zeal and … mystic fervour, [St.] Anthony contributed significantly to the development of Franciscan spirituality. \u2026\u00a0 He dedicated himself … to the study of the Bible and of the Church Fathers, acquiring … theological knowledge … Anthony laid the foundations of Franciscan theology * * * he commented on … texts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4,73,37,46],"tags":[10,11,200,223,541,188,39,502,47],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic","category-catholic-faith","category-feature-article","category-prayer","category-saints","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-faith","tag-catholic-prayer","tag-catholic-saints","tag-franciscans","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-prayer","tag-saint-anthony-of-padua","tag-saints"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Pope-Benedict-waving-e1500250910808.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}