{"id":3231,"date":"2009-06-09T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:16:09","slug":"st-louis-prays-with-archbishop-elect-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis prays with Archbishop-elect Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>St. Louis Review<\/em> is doing a wonderful job covering the installation events of Archbishop-elect Carlson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Archbishop-elect Robert J. Carlson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archstl.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=898&amp;Itemid=1\">homily<\/a> given during Tuesday&#8217;s Evening Prayer Vigil at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica on the eve of his installation.<\/li>\n<li>Download an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archstl.org\/images\/stories\/audio\/homily-carlson-evening-prayer.mp3\">MP3<\/a> of tonight&#8217;s homily.<\/li>\n<li>View <a href=\"http:\/\/stlouisreview.com\/installation\/2009\/evening-prayer-vigil\">photos<\/a> from the Evening Prayer Vigil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"float:right; padding:5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/stl\/evenprayer.jpg\" alt=\"carlson\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Think about the values of the contemporary culture, and compare them with the values of the Gospel. Perhaps there was a time when the culture supported the values of the Gospel, or at least appeared to do so. But we now live in a culture that is not particularly friendly and is sometimes actively hostile to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The Gospel invites us to choose life; the culture tells us that death is an equally legitimate choice. The Gospel tells us that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life; the culture tells us that there are many equally valid ways, truths, and lifestyles. Jesus Himself tells us that the path to Heaven is narrow while the path to Hell is broad (Matthew. 7:13-14); the culture tells us that the path to Heaven is broad while the path to Hell is narrow.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything in our culture is hostile to the values of the Gospel. But, at the same time, the list of contradictions could be multiplied. Let&#8217;s go right to the bottom line: If we can&#8217;t point to a number of issues on which the values we live by differ from the values of our culture, then we have to wonder about the depth of our commitment to the teachings of Christ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>&#8212; excerpted from Archbishop-elect Robert J. Carlson&#8217;s Evening Prayer Vigil homily, June 9 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Review is doing a wonderful job covering the installation events of Archbishop-elect Carlson: Read Archbishop-elect Robert J. Carlson&#8217;s homily given during Tuesday&#8217;s Evening Prayer Vigil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,70],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlson","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}