{"id":1299,"date":"2015-04-06T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:31","slug":"april-3-about-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/06\/april-3-about-grieving\/","title":{"rendered":"April 3  &#8211;  About grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good Friday, \u00a0April 3 \u00a0&#8221; I have concluded that since it is beyond our comprehension,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jesus came not to explain suffering but to weep with us and to suffer with us.\u201d <\/strong>\u00a0Francis<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t planned a post today; \u00a0I\u2019ve been sifting emails that I saved but hadn\u2019t the time to read. \u00a0This one, from January 23, changed my mind. \u00a0Tom Reese wrote about Pope Francis encountering a weeping 12 year old Filipino. \u00a0This is not a poem; it\u2019s a column. \u00a0To me, it reads like a Good Friday contemplation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/04\/Pope-Francis-wept-Tom-Reese-Jan-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis: &#8216;If you don&#8217;t learn how to weep, you&#8217;re not a good Christian&#8217; by Thomas Reese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, \u00a0April 3 \u00a0&#8221; I have concluded that since it is beyond our comprehension,\u00a0Jesus came not to explain suffering but to weep with us and to suffer with us.\u201d \u00a0Francis I hadn\u2019t planned a post today; \u00a0I\u2019ve been sifting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/06\/april-3-about-grieving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}