{"id":85124,"date":"2015-04-21T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=85124"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T21:07:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"drop\">Theirs was the religion of Saint John and of Saint Paul, the religion of the <em>Gloria in Excelsis Deo<\/em>, of the Athanasian Creed, and of the <em>Te Deum Laudamus<\/em>: Trinitarian, Christological, liturgical, and ecclesial. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>heirs was a religion spacious, broad, lofty, deep, and, at the same time, humbly rooted in the mystery of the Incarnation and in the homely economy of the sacraments.<\/p>\n<p>(Dom <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Leclercq,_OSB\" target=\"_blank\">Jean LeClercq<\/a>, O.S.B.,<br \/>\nspeaking on the 12th Century Monastic reformers)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t this be our religion as well? I certainly think so.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85125\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/quote-of-the-day\/leclercq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85125\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85125\" data-attachment-id=\"85125\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/quote-of-the-day\/leclercq\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?fit=312%2C312&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"312,312\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"leclercq\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Dom Jean LeClercq, O.S.B. (1911-1993)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?fit=312%2C312&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?resize=312%2C312\" alt=\"Dom Jean LeClercq, O.S.B. (1911-1993)\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?w=312&amp;ssl=1 312w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/leclercq.jpg?resize=240%2C240&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dom Jean LeClercq, O.S.B. (1911-1993)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theirs was the religion of Saint John and of Saint Paul, the religion of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo, of the Athanasian Creed, and of the Te Deum Laudamus: Trinitarian, Christological, liturgical, and ecclesial. Theirs was a religion spacious, broad, lofty, deep, and, at the same time, humbly rooted in the mystery of the Incarnation and in the homely economy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","category-saint","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-m8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90201,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/day-of-wrath-o-day-of-mourning\/","url_meta":{"origin":85124,"position":0},"title":"Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning!","author":"Thom","date":"14 November 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Appropriate to today - the Feast of All Souls of the Benedictine Order - we once again have the Dies Ir\u00e6, the traditional sequence for Requiem Masses and the Masses of All Souls. 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