{"id":11729,"date":"2011-10-18T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2011-10-18T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T22:25:01","slug":"for-i-am-not-ashamed-of-the-gospel-unless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/10\/for-i-am-not-ashamed-of-the-gospel-unless\/","title":{"rendered":"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, unless &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The erudite Fr. George Rutler writes a column on the &#8220;Shorter Form&#8221; of the modern Roman lectionary.  The &#8220;Shorter Form&#8221; are edits of the Sunday Gospel readings supposedly allowed because of time considerations. Though as Fr. Rutler points out some of these edits reduce the Gospel by only 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2011\/10\/fr-george-rutler-on-shorter-form-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNewLiturgicalMovement+(The+New+Liturgical+Movement)\" target=\"_blank\">this column is well worth reading<\/a> and too good to just excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>I find the whole concept of the &#8220;Shorter Form&#8221; Gospel readings to be a real bad idea driven really by removing hard sayings and not time reduction. This fact is obvious considering the readings that are shortened. If parishes have enough time for the &#8220;Liturgy of the Bulletin&#8221; where they read all the announcements, they have time for the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul did not say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, unless of course it is a hard saying and might make somebody in the pew uncomfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though of course it must be remembered that the&#8221;Shorter Form&#8221; is optional and we really should encourage our pastors to preach the full Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The erudite Fr. George Rutler writes a column on the &#8220;Shorter Form&#8221; of the modern Roman lectionary. The &#8220;Shorter Form&#8221; are edits of the Sunday Gospel readings supposedly allowed because&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}