{"id":3119,"date":"2008-02-14T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/02\/14\/be-my-methodius\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:42:43","slug":"be-my-methodius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/02\/be-my-methodius\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my Methodius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">Very few of us will walk up to someone<br \/>\ntoday and greet him or her with the words, Happy St. Cyrils Day, or<br \/>\neven Happy Cyrils Day. And surely no one will tell their sweetheart<br \/>\nto Be my Methodius.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, today the universal Church commemorates Sts. Cyril and<br \/>\nMethodius, not St. Valentine, notwithstanding the latters<br \/>\nlarger-than-life appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Sts. Cyril and Methodius, brothers from what in biblical times was<br \/>\nknown as Thessalonica, were ninth-century missionaries to the Slavic<br \/>\npeople in Eastern Europe. Not only did they learn the oral language of<br \/>\nthe people, but they developed an alphabet and written language so that<br \/>\nthe Bible and liturgical texts could be translated into the living<br \/>\nlanguage of the people. They were truly remarkable men of God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cufblog.org\/?p=268\">Leon Suprenant has a good point<\/a> especially<br \/>\nsince we have no idea which St. Valentine this day is named after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Surely Sts. Cyril and Methodius are much<br \/>\nmore cool being brother Bishops and &nbsp;brothers and how many<br \/>\npeople have invented a language that is still used today?<br \/>\n&nbsp;Their missionary work and the spread of the Gospel surely<br \/>\nwarrant more attention than they get on the memorial. &nbsp;But<br \/>\nthen again considering performances of the Vagina Monologue, official<br \/>\nNew York City brand condom giveaways, and all the other nonsense that<br \/>\ngoes on this day &nbsp;&#8211; I bet they are happy to take a back seat<br \/>\nto St. Valentine and quite happy that this stuff does not get<br \/>\nattributed to them. &nbsp;Though we might want to give a shout out<br \/>\nto the St. Valentine and commiserate with him because surely if he<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t in the Beatific Vision he would be a little down today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very few of us will walk up to someone today and greet him or her with the words, Happy St. Cyrils Day, or even Happy Cyrils Day. And surely no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}