{"id":4868,"date":"2020-01-02T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2020-01-03T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T13:44:02","slug":"a-bit-jarring-and-comforting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"A bit jarring and comforting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,;\">According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God\u2019s justice is never without His mercy and His mercy is never without His justice (see Article 4 of Question 21 in his<em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;\"> Summa Theologi<\/em><em>ca<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,;\">This should be both a bit jarring and comforting to us. It means that even when it seems God is at His angriest with us&#8230;His mercy is not too far away. But it also means that His mercy doesn\u2019t occur without also making things right. Put another way: there is no mercy without repentance and renouncing of sin and self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,;\">Stephen Beale<br \/>\nCatholic Exchange<br \/>\nJuly 10, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God\u2019s justice is never without His mercy and His mercy is never without His justice (see Article 4 of Question 21 in his Summa Theologica). This should be both a bit jarring and comforting to us. It means that even when it seems God is at His angriest with us&#8230;His &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bit jarring and comforting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}