{"id":5855,"date":"2005-05-26T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/05\/26\/from-pod-to-odd\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:05:11","slug":"from-pod-to-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/05\/from-pod-to-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"From POD to ODD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Zadok the Roman <a href=\"http:\/\/zadokromanus.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/corpus-domini-procession.html\">has picture up<\/a> of today&#8217;s Corpus Domini procession in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">But the Corpus Christi procession, he said, is a moment when Catholics walk with the risen Lord, carrying him to the ends of the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;One cannot eat the risen Lord present in the figure of bread as if it were simply a piece of bread,&quot; the pope said. &quot;To eat this bread is to &#8216;communicate,&#8217; to enter into communion with the person of the living Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;This communion, this act of eating, is truly an encounter between two persons; it is allowing oneself to be penetrated by the life of the one who is Lord, the one who is my creator and redeemer,&quot; Pope Benedict said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Going to the altar and receiving Communion, he said, is a sign that the faithful want to be transformed and conformed to Christ, &quot;who is love alive.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Communion implies adoration; it implies the desire to follow Christ,&quot; he said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0503192.htm\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the spectrum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expagan.info\/blog\/?p=123\">John Gibson has a series of stills<\/a> from the Episcopalian clown Mass mentioned earlier this week at Open Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadok the Roman has picture up of today&#8217;s Corpus Domini procession in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI. But the Corpus Christi procession, he said, is a moment when Catholics walk&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}