{"id":1297,"date":"2012-01-01T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2016-10-10T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:11:27","slug":"mary-a-model-of-gods-invitation-to-shared-life-and-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/mary-a-model-of-gods-invitation-to-shared-life-and-sacrifice","title":{"rendered":"Mary: A Model of God&#8217;s Invitation to Shared Life and Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How wonderful to open up the January issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveusthisday.org\/\">Give Us This Day<\/a><\/em> and discover that the very first meditation of the new year is by my diocese&#8217;s very own Bishop Blase Cupich. Here is the conclusion of his meditation on this Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1299\" title=\"Theotokos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/theotokos-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Theotokos\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/theotokos-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/theotokos.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This blessed virgin agreed not only to give birth to the Son of the Most High God. She also consented to enter into a unique relationship with God, a relationship that is so intimate that only the bond between a mother and a child comes close to explaining or understanding it. The message of this first disciple of Jesus is clear as we begin a new calendar year: God invites us into an authentic relationship of shared life and sacrifice. It is a relationship in which we come to know who we are in knowing God, and he wishes us to know him in a way that gives us new life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As this new year dawns, may we all actively answer the invitation that Bishop Cupich writes about, entering more deeply into shared life and sacrifice with God. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How wonderful to open up the January issue of Give Us This Day and discover that the very first meditation of the new year is by my diocese&#8217;s very own Bishop Blase Cupich. Here is the conclusion of his meditation on this Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God: This blessed virgin agreed not only to give birth to the Son of the Most High God. She also consented to enter into a unique relationship with God, a relationship that is so intimate that only the bond between a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[72,71,51,73],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-bishop-blase-cupich","tag-blessed-virgin-mary","tag-give-us-this-day","tag-meditations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/theotokos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-kV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}